Miles Davis - Porgy And Bess [Remastered] (CD 1997) on eBay (end time 28-Nov-09 15:07:12 GMT)


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Artist:	Miles Davis & Gil Evans Orchestra	Record Label:	Sony Jazz
Release Year:	1997	EAN:	5099706514121
Genre:	Jazz	Format:	Album
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Condition:	Used

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Track listing
1. Buzzard Song 2. Bess You Is My Woman Now 3. Gone Gone Gone 4. Summertime 5. Bess Oh Where's My Bed 6. Prayer 7. O Doctor Jesus 8. Fisherman 9. Strawberry And Devil Crab 10. My Man's Gone Now 11. It Ain't Necessarily So 12. Here Comes De Honey Man 13. I Loves You Porgy 14. There's A Boat That's Leavin' Soon For New York 15. I Loves You Porgy (CD/alt) 16. Gone (CD/alt)
Details
Number of CDs:	1
Contributing artists:	Davis, Miles & Gil Evans Orchestra
Producer:	Cal Lampley
Recording type:	Studio
Distributor:	Sony Music/Arvato Services
Recording mode:	Stereo

Album notes
This reissue of PORGY AND BESS contains 2 alternate takes. Personnel: Miles Davis (trumpet, flugelhorn); Gil Evans (conductor, arranger); Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (alto saxophone); Ernie Royal, Bernie Glow, Johnny Coles, Louis Mucci (trumpet); Jimmy Cleveland, Dick Hixon, Frank Rehak, Joe Bennett (trombone); Willie Ruff, Gunther Schuller, Julius Watkins (French horn); Bill Barber (tuba); Jerome Richardson, Romeo Penque, Phil Bodner (flute, alto flute, clarinet); Danny Bank (alto flute, bass clarinet); Paul Chambers (acoustic bass); Jimmy Cobb, Philly Joe Jones (drums). Reissue producer: Phil Schaap.Recorded at 30th Street Studio, New York, New York in July and August 1958. Includes liner notes by Bill Kirchner and Phil Schaap, and original release liner notes by Charles Edward Smith.All tracks have been digitally remastered.Of all Gil Evans' orchestral scores for soulmate Miles Davis, PORGY AND BESS is his richest and most ambitious--a watershed of modern jazz harmony which served to secure Davis' pop star stature and define his brooding mystique. Inevitably, even non-jazz listeners own a copy of PORGY AND BESS or SKETCHES OF SPAIN.Like MILES AHEAD, Evans' band on PORGY AND BESS de-emphasized the traditional reed section in favor of a tuba, three French horns, two flutes and two saxophones. The resulting chords and overtones are dark, alluring and mysterious. Thus the opening brass-cymbal bluster of "The Buzzard Song" gives way to a mid-eastern carpet of flutes and deep brass as Davis' poignant trumpet speaks in split tones and yearning cadences, bursting with blues feeling; a tuba soon picks up the theme as muted trumpets are followed by tolling trombone/French horn chords.Each of the thirteen sections contrast lush instrumental details with intimate trumpet arias (which suggest the profound influence of Billie Holiday, particularly over the eerie textures of "I Loves You Porgy"). Evans' ability to orchestrate hypnotic call and response patterns with Davis, and his ability to layer multiple textures at contrasting tempos makes for several memorable moments: Philly Joe's dancing breaks and exchanges with Miles on "Gone," the church-like amens of "Gone, Gone, Gone," the counter-melodies on a lightly swinging "Summertime," Miles' sustained lyricism (and Evans' tart blue chordal rejoinders) on "Prayer," the brash after-hours swagger of "It Ain't Necessarily So," and the contrasting folkish themes of "Here Come De Honey Man." Timeless music.
Editorial reviews
...PORGY AND BESS is possibly the best of the collaborations between Miles and Gil Evans....Evans is justly regarded as the master of modern orchestration and PORGY AND BESS shows him at his best. There are two alternates to savor here, `I Loves You, Porgy,' and `More'... JazzTimes (08/01/1997)

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