SUMMERTIME ~ JONI MITCHELL HERBIE HANCOCK AND STEVIE WONDER ~ SUMMERTIME ON THE GULFCOAST

“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. The song soon became a popular and much recorded jazz standard, described as “without doubt... one of the finest songs the composer ever ’s highly evocative writing brilliantly mixes elements of jazz and the song styles of blacks in the southeast United States from the early twentieth century. In September 193