One warm night in September 1992, The Landing jazz club on the San Antonio River, home base of The Jim Cullum Jazz Band, was packed to capacity with fans eager to witness an ambitious live recording of the Gershwins' famed folk opera Porgy and Bess- for broadcast on the Band's nationally syndicated public radio series Riverwalk Jazz.

Unlike other jazz interpretations of Porgy and Bess, the JCJB developed an original jazz transcription using virtually all the music in George Gershwin's magnificent score. Joining the band on a stage crowded with musicians and microphones, a legend of screen and stage, the Grammy award-winning spoken word artist William Warfield weaves the tale of love and redemption as the Band's performance crackles with energy.

Audiophile Quality - Original Analog Recording
Audio engineering: Ed Greene, Jim Anderson, Malcolm Harper, Terra Nova
Mastering, Stanford University

Tracks - Double CD Album
Classics "Summertime," "It Ain't Necessarily So," "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" and seldom heard Gershwin compositions, "Oh, Doctor Jesus," "Buzzard Song," "A Red Headed Woman," "Clara, Clara," "My Man's Gone Now."

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