Summary: “FP of Porqy and Bess [1935]” Porgy and Bess has been the subject of many so-called “concept albums”, both from jazz legends dating from the same year, 1958: Miles Davis’ East-Coast Studio effort and one by the duo of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong from the West Coast. This week, we have two “visions” of Gershwin’s only Grand Opera – a "Symphonic Portrait” and the Fitzgerald/Armstrong “Concept Album”.
