and the livin' is easy...

Summertime

George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, & Ira Gershwin, Composers

... music to live by ...



Janis Joplin, Big Brother and the Holding Company





Keith Jarrett





Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

One of these mornings
You're going to rise up singing
Then you'll spread your wings
And you'll take to the sky

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A phenomenal composition from Porgy and Bess that has been in my body all my life. I included Jarrett’s version – he was a keyboardist for Miles Davis – because his performance is incredible.

The other two need no comment.