This is the second outstanding treatment of Gershwin's famed folk opera, Porgy & Bess, within the past eight months. On the other recent version, Jeff Lindberg's Chicago Jazz Orchestra faithfully ...

In the third or fourth phase of his illustrious career, Miles Davis recorded an album called Porgy and Bess. The title didn’t indicate that he was playing the music that George Gershwin had created ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A concert performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic of “Porgy and Bess ...

Now playing in the Grand Theater at Crown Center is Music Theater Heritage’s production of Gershwin’s “PORGY AND BESS.” This is an example of MTH going “all in” on a very challenging show and ...

More than four decades ago, trumpeter Miles Davis collaborated with arranger Gil Evans to produce what many observers look upon as the definitive jazz version of George Gershwin's groundbreaking folk ...

London’s first-nighters hardly knew what to expect. All week the musicians’ union had nipped at the touring, all-Negro production of Porgy and Bess: either a Briton would conduct or the orchestra ...

Soprano Angel Blue as Bess and bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as Porgy in HGO's productionof Porgy and Bess. Credit: Michael Bishop When George Gershwin died in Hollywood in 1937 at the age of 38 from a ...