Toshiko Akiyoshi Plays Gershwin's Porgy And Bess

Toshiko Akiyoshi Plays Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" is a 2016 recording by jazz pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi.^[1]

Toshiko Akiyoshi Plays Gershwin's "Porgy And Bess"
Studio album by Toshiko Akiyoshi
Released	4 January 2016
Recorded	20, 21 June 2015
Studio	Avatar Studio, New York
Genre	Jazz
Label	Studio Songs
Toshiko Akiyoshi chronology
Jazz Conversations (2015) Toshiko Akiyoshi Plays Gershwin's "Porgy And Bess" (2016) My Long Yellow Road (2017)

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)

References

1. Toshiko Akiyoshi = 秋吉敏子 - Toshiko Akiyoshi Plays Gershwin's "Porgy And Bess" = ポーギーとベス, 2016-04-06, retrieved 2023-07-02

• Studio Songs YZSO 10065