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Porgy and Bess

Miles Davis
Jazz 1958

Porgy and Bess is an English-language opera by American composer George Gershwin, with a libretto written by author DuBose Heyward and lyricist Ira Gershwin. It was adapted from Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward's play Porgy, itself an adaptation of DuBose Heyward's 1925 novel Porgy.

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15 tracks · 58:19 · click to preview
1
Buzzard Song
4:06
2
Bess, You Is My Woman Now
5:10
3
Gone
3:36
4
Gone, Gone, Gone
2:03
5
Summertime
3:17
6
Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?
4:28
7
Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus)
4:38
8
Fishermen, Strawberry and Devil Crab
4:06
9
My Man's Gone Now
6:14
10
It Ain't Necessarily So
4:23
11
Here Come de Honey Man
1:18
12
I Wants to Stay Here (a.k.a. I Loves You Porgy)
3:39
13
There's a Boat That's Leaving Soon for New York
3:23
14
I Loves You, Porgy
4:13
15
Gone (Take 4)
3:39
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