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Night Lights (Series)
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NL 22-21: Porgy And Bess: The 1950s Jazz Revival, 5/16/2022
From WFIU | Part of the Night Lights series | 59:02
As Hollywood prepared to adapt George Gershwin’s folk opera to the screen in the late 1950s, jazz artists such as Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, and Oscar Peterson recorded albums of its songs.