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“Porgy And Bess” suite for trumpet and orchestraby Gil Evans to a score by George Gershwin transcribed by Gunther Schuller in a fantastic performance by Paolo Fresu with Orchestra Jazz della Sardegna, lead vocalist David Linx. Anyone listening to this record, recorded in Dec. 1999 at Spazio Link in Sassari and released by Parco della Musica Records, will be fatally enraptured by a sonic universe of inexhaustible fascination. Fourteen tracks for a pentagram-length journey into the heart of African American music.