Porgy & Bess (Buddy Collette album)

Porgy & Bess (subtitled Modern Interpretations) is an album by multi-instrumentalist Buddy Collette featuring jazz versions of music from the George Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess recorded at sessions in 1957 and released on the Interlude label in 1959.^[1][2]

Porgy & Bess
Studio album by Buddy Collette and the Poll Winners
Released	1959
Recorded	July 1957 Los Angeles, CA
Genre	Jazz
Label	Interlude MO 505
Producer	Robert Scherman
Buddy Collette chronology
Everybody's Buddy (1957) Porgy & Bess (1959) Flute Fraternity (1957)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[3]

Allmusic awarded the album 2  stars with the review by Scott Yanow stating "other than the unusual colors, little all that surprising happens during the obscure cool jazz effort".^[3]

Track listing

All compositions by George Gershwin

1. "Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?" - 2:57
2. "My Man's Gone Now" - 3:24
3. "Summertime" - 4:13
4. "It Ain't Necessarily So" - 3:28
5. "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'" - 2:38
6. "There's a Boat That's Leavin' for New York" - 3:20
7. "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" - 3:26
8. "A Woman Is a Sometime Thing" - 4:42

Personnel

• Buddy Collette - flute, bass clarinet
• Pete Jolly - accordion
• Gerald Wiggins - organ
• Jim Hall - guitar
• Red Callender - bass
• Louie Bellson - drums