1959, Columbia CL 1214
Original mono release, "6-eye" labels, Terre Haute pressing. Matrix #s in runout XLP44661-2AD T and XLP44662-2AK. Very small rubber stamp mark on back cover. Track list: The Buzzard Song, Bess You Is My Woman Now, Gone, Gone Gone Gone, Summertime, Bess Oh Where's My Bess, Prayer (Oh Doctor Jesus), Fishermen Strawberry And Devil Crab, My Man's Gone Now, It Ain't Necessarily So, Here Come De Honey Man, I Loves You Porgy, There's A Boat That's Leaving Soon For New York. Orchestra directed by Gil Evans. Liner notes by Charles Edward Smith.


