Porgy And Bess (Ella Fitzgerald And Louis Armstrong Album)
Porgy and Bess is a 1957 studio album by jazz vocalist and trumpeter Louis Armstrong, and singer Ella Fitzgerald collaborating on this recording of selections from George and Ira Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. In 2001, it was awarded with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award, a special achievement prize established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance." The album was originally issued on the Verve label as Verve MGV 4011-2, then reissued on PolyGram on CD in 1990, as Verve-PolyGram 827 475-2.
The album is considered the most musically successful amongst the jazz vocal versions of the opera and was released to coincide with the 1959 movie version.
The arranger on this album, Russell Garcia, had previously arranged the first jazz vocal recording of the album, 1956's, The Complete Porgy and Bess.
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