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'Porgy & Bess' was the third and final album collaboration between Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong and producer Norman Granz. Featuring songs from the George & Ira Gershwins opera, which was inspired by the DuBose Heyward play 'Porgy', it received both critical acclaim and commercial success internationally.

"As the tracks progress, you think she is cutting Armstrong - only to turn around and believe that Armstrong is cutting her. The truth, of course, is that they are outdoing themselves. This is a Porgy performance you would be ill- advised to miss." - Gene Lees, DownBeat

TRACK LISTING

Overture
Summertime
I Wants To Stay Here
My Man’s Gone Now
I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’
Buzzard Song
Bess, You Is My Woman Now
It Ain’t Necessarily So
What You Want Wid Bess?
A Woman Is A Sometime Thing
Oh, Doctor Jesus / Medley: Here Come De Honey Man
Crab Man
Oh, Dey's So Fresh And Fine (Strawberry Woman)
There's A Boat Dat’s Leavin' Soon For New York
Bess, Oh Where’s My Bess?
Oh, Lawd, I’m On My Way
You Won’t Be Satisfied
Undecided