Summer Hours
Hitting the road, but leaving you with the goods
What’s your favorite recording of “Summertime,” the Gershwin aria? You can’t go wrong with Ella and Louis. Or this medium-cool take from Miles Davis and Gil Evans. Or the modal reinvention that John Coltrane included on My Favorite Things.
At the moment, though, what I’m feeling is Sidney Bechet’s 1939 recording, one of …
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