Toshiko Akiyoshi Plays Gershwin's Porgy And Bess Explained

Toshiko Akiyoshi Plays Gershwin's "Porgy And Bess"
Type:	studio album
Artist:	Toshiko Akiyoshi
Cover:	ToshikoAkiyoshi_PlaysGershwinsPorgyAndBess.jpg
Released:	4 January 2016
Recorded:	20, 21 June 2015
Studio:	Avatar Studio, New York
Genre:	Jazz
Label:	Studio Songs
Prev Title:	Jazz Conversations
Prev Year:	2015
Next Title:	My Long Yellow Road
Next Year:	2017

Toshiko Akiyoshi Plays Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" is a 2016 recording by jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi.

Track listing

1. "Summertime"
2. "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'"
3. "I Loves You, Porgy"
4. "My Man's Gone Now"
5. "A Woman Is A Sometime Thing"
6. "It Ain't Necessarily So"
7. "Bess, You Is My Woman Now"
8. "Bess, O Where's My Bess"
9. "A Red-Haired Woman"

all music composed by George Gershwin

Personnel

• Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano
• Paul Gill – bass (tracks 2, 8, 9)
• Yasushi Nakamura (中村 恭士) – bass (tracks 5, 6, 7)
• George Mraz – bass (tracks 3, 4)
• Mark Taylor – drums (tracks 4~8)
• Rodney Green – drums (tracks 2, 9)