Mark Masters' rearrangements of this classic recast the music while retaining its substance.

Porgy and Bess was Gershwin's longest and most ambitious work as well as his personal favorite. Many Jazz arrangers have found the thematic material fertile ground for embellishment and reinvention. Masters' approach recasts the music while retaining its substance. His efforts are aided immeasurably by an ensemble of superb musicians including Billy Harper, Tim Hagens, Gary Smulyan and others.

Track Listing

• Introduction
• Summertime
• A Woman Is A Sometime Thing
• Gon, Gone, Gone
• My Man's Gone Now
• It Ain't Necessarily So
• Here Come De Honey Man
• I Loves You Porgy
• A Red Headed Woman
• Clara, Clara
• There's A Boat Dat's Leavin Soon For New York

Additional Details

Label: Capri Records

Genre: Jazz

Run Time: 61 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 03/22/05

UPC: 054987406928