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Buzzard song (4:07) -- Bess, you is my woman now (5:10) -- Gone (3:37) -- Gone, gone, gone (2:03) -- Summertime (3:17) -- Bess, oh where's my Bess (4:28) -- Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus) (4:39) -- Fisherman, Strawberry, and Devil Crab (4:06) -- My man's gone now (6:14) -- It ain't necessarily so (4:23) -- Here comes de honey man (1:18) -- I loves you, Porgy (3:39) -- There's a boat that's leaving soon for New York (3:23) -- I loves you, Porgy (take 1, 2nd version) (4:14) -- Gone (take 4) (3:40).
Jazz orchestra arrangements of opera excerpts.
Originally released on LP as Columbia CL 1274 in 1959; with bonus alternative takes (tracks 14-15).
Program notes by Charles Edward Smith, Bill Kirchner and Phil Schaap (18 pages : ill.) inserted in container.
Miles Davis, trumpet ; Gil Evans, arranger-conductor.
Recorded July 22 and 29, Aug. 4 and 18, 1958, 30th Street Studio, New York City.