The Modern Jazz Quartet, Plays The Music of Porgy and Bess (1965)
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I’ve never seen a production of Porgy and Bess, never seen one of the filmed versions either…but I know the music well, from so many different records and renditions. I think I first heard it through my grandfather; one of the only ways we bonded through music. The rest of his collection w…
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