Miles Davis - Porgy And Bess

Tracklist

A1	The Buzzard Song
A2	Bess, You Is My Woman Now
A3	Gone
A4	Gone, Gone, Gone
A5	Summertime
A6	Bess, Oh Where's My Bess
B1	Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus)
B2	Fishermen, Strawberry And Devil Crab
B3	My Man's Gone Now
B4	It Ain't Necessarily So
B5	Here Come De Honey Man
B6	I Loves You, Porgy
B7	There's A Boat That's Leaving Soon For New York

Credits

• Bass – Paul Chambers
• Conductor – Gil Evans
• Drums – Philly Joe Jones* (tracks: A1, A3 to A6, B1, B3, B6, B7), Jimmy Cobb (tracks: A2, B2, B4, B5)
• Engineer – Ray Moore
• Flute – Jerome Richardson (tracks: A1, A6, B1), Phil Bodner (tracks: A2, A3, A4, A5, B2 to B7), Romeo Penque
• French Horn – Gunther Schuller, Julius B. Watkins*, Willie Ruff
• Liner Notes – Charles Edward Smith
• Photography By – Roy De Carava*
• Producer – Cal Lampley, Teo Macero
• Saxophone – Julian Adderly*, Daniel B. Banks*
• Trombone – Frank Rehak, Jimmy Cleveland, Joseph Bennett, Dick Hixon*
• Trumpet – Bernie Glow, Ernie Royal, John Coles*, Louis Mucci*
• Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Miles Davis
• Tuba – John ("Bill") Barber*

Notes

Red/orange Columbia 70s label with CS 8085 on record. Cover has sticker on front with PC 8085, says KCS 8085 on back. Recorded 7/22/1958 (tracks A3, A4, B3), 7/29/1958 (tracks A6, B2, B4, B5), 8/04/1958 (tracks A1, A6, B1), and 8/18/1958 (A5, B6, B7) at the Columbia 30th Street Studio in New York City.

Reissue Of Columbia Records Release CS 8085.

Original LP released in 1958

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Side 1 Matrix): XSM 44663
• Matrix / Runout (Side 2 Matrix): XSM 44664

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
CS 8085	Miles Davis	Porgy And Bess ‎(LP, Album)	Columbia	CS 8085	US	1958
CBS 32188, CBS 62108	Miles Davis	Porgy And Bess ‎(LP, Album, RE)	CBS, CBS	CBS 32188, CBS 62108	Europe	Unknown
BPG 62108	Miles Davis	Porgy And Bess ‎(LP, Album, Mono, RE)	CBS	BPG 62108	UK	Unknown
CL 1274	Miles Davis	Porgy And Bess ‎(LP, Album, Mono)	Columbia	CL 1274	US	Unknown
CBS 450985 1	Miles Davis	Porgy And Bess ‎(LP, Album, RE, RM)	CBS, Suzy	CBS 450985 1	Yugoslavia	1988

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