Porgy And Bess by Diahann Carroll And The André Previn Trio, released on United Artists in 1959.

Soho The Dog wrote:

Diahann Carroll had played Clara in Goldwyn’s Porgy but, at Goldwyn’s behest, her singing was dubbed by soprano Loulie Jean Norman, which must have been a real insult to a singer of Carroll’s caliber. As Previn scholar Frédéric Döhl has noted, Goldwyn’s reverence for the material, both asserted from within and imposed from without, led him to fill the soundtrack with classical singers in order, as Döhl puts it, to “orient the aesthetic emphasis of the sound towards opera.” That might be why Carroll and producer Jack Lewis wanted to tilt away from the source toward jazz. With Previn’s trio... it’s much as one might imagine a “modern jazz interpretations of” Porgy and Bess...

https://www.sohothedog.com/previnjazz/1959-2/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWAc9AMRtEw&list=RDaWAc9AMRtEw&start_radio=1

#PorgyAndBess #DiahannCarroll #AndréPrevin #JazzVocal #Jazz #Music #Gershwin

No strings, a new musical ... book by Samuel Taylor. 54th Street Theatre. 1962.
1 print : color ; sheet 56 x 36 cm (poster format)

#SamuelTaylor #54thStreetTheatre #NoStrings #RichardRodgers #RICHARDKILEYLYRICS #DIAHANNCARROLL #RODGERSLYRICS #RODGERS #JoeLayton #East10thAve #posters #american #photopgraphy #LibraryOfCongress

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014646836/

“If you ain’t scared, you don’t have need for guts.” — Claudine (1974)

Today’s #TonysTimelessThursdays honors this soulful, groundbreaking film starring Diahann Carroll & James Earl Jones 💜🎬

Read the full post ➡️ https://wix.to/eg8ioHf

#BlackCinema #WomensHistoryMonth #Claudine1974 #DiahannCarroll #BlackMothersMatter #blackmastodon

Lovely memories. What the world needs now is love sweet love. So true. ❤️💗🩷 #DiahannCarroll #EdSullivanShow #ClassicPerformance #60sMusic

https://madlyodd.com/diahann-carroll-delivered-a-stirring-performance-of-what-the-world-needs-now-is-love-on-the-ed-sullivan-show-on-april-10-1966-her-elegant-stage-presence-and-smooth-heartfelt-vocals-brought-new-dept/

#Movies #Jazz #Paris

#Amazon #Prime is streaming #ParisBlues (1961), a rarely seen movie, starring #PaulNewman, #JoanneWoodward, #SidneyPoitier & #DiahannCarroll. #LouisArmstrong also has a featured role.

The movie is about 2 American jazz musicians in Paris in the 50's & their unrequited love affairs with 2 American female tourists.

The movie has a #FilmNoir feel & was made in the same year as #TheHustler (1961) when Newman was in his prime.

One to watch if you haven't seen it before.