Porgy and Bess | ||||
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Released | April 1959[1] | |||
Recorded | August 18–19 and October 14, 1957 in Los Angeles | |||
Genre | Jazz, light opera, swing | |||
Length | 66:04 | |||
Label | Verve MGV 4011-2 Verve MGVS 6040-2 Verve 827 475-2 (1990) | |||
Producer | Norman Granz | |||
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AllMusic | [2] |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [3] |
Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [4] |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [5] |
Porgy and Bess is a studio album by jazz vocalist and trumpeter Louis Armstrong and singer Ella Fitzgerald, released on Verve Records in 1959. The third and final of the pair's albums for the label, it is a suite of selections from the George Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess. Orchestral arrangements are by Russell Garcia, who had previously arranged the 1956 jazz vocal recording The Complete Porgy and Bess.