I Loves You Porgy (Diane Schuur)

Diane Schuur · 1987 · Air de Gershwin chanté avec l'orchestre de Basie

Context

Ballad by George and Ira Gershwin (Porgy and Bess), covered in concert with Count Basie's orchestra in 1987. The album is also the last recording of guitarist Freddie Green, who died a week later.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese, Modern big bands. Among the origins and influences of Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese: Classic blues (women singers), Swing, big bands, Bebop (Minton's, Monroe's).

By the same artist

• Deedles' Blues (1987)
• Travelin' Blues (1987)
• Climbing Higher Mountains (1987)

Sources

• EN: Diane Schuur & the Count Basie Orchestra

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