Summertime… We would like to borrow from the Porgy and Bess opera with ‘Summertime, And the livin’ is easy Fish are jumpin’ And the cotton is high”, and that pretty much sums up our optimism for the next few months. It is summertime and we look forward to kicking back and relaxing. Don’t get us wrong, [...]
June 21, 2013 - La Prensa San Diego
Molly Johnson in Globe and Mail I dedicated the record to Ed [Mirvish],says Johnson, sitting in a noisy College Street coffee house a few blocks from her home in Toronto. "You know, Ed started this thing by putting me in Porgy and Bess when I was five years old."
Ran Blake in All About Jazz Porgy and Bess could be considered Third Stream,Blake says. "Beethoven using country dances, yes, that's mixing court with the field music - it's not quite as dramatic as jazz, classical, Ethiopian, Richard Strauss."