Sarah Vaughan ft Joe Lippman Orchestra Summertime ( Columbia Records 1949)

Summertime is an aria composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, although the song is also cocredited to Ira Gershwin by ASCAP. The song soon became a popular and much recorded jazz standard, described as without one of the finest songs the composer ever highly evocative writing brilliantly mixes elements of jazz and the song styles of AfricanAmericans in the s