Summertime on YouTube

Every once in a while a composer writes a song that every musician wants to perform, no matter what their stylistic proclivities. “Summertime” from the opera Porgy & Bess is such a tune. Thank you George Gershwin. Here are some of the videos available on YouTube that should intrigue you. That is what I found after a one-hour search on the first three pages. It was quite a trip!

Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald

Janis Joplin

Billy Stewart

Nora Jones

Miles Davis

Billie Holiday

Willie Nelson

Fantasia Sings for Stevie Wonder

Sam Cooke

Annie Lennox

The Zombies

Angelina Jordan

Nina Simone

Scarlett Johansson

Stephanie McCourt

Joss Stone & LeAnn Rimes

John Coltrane

Lillie McCloud

The Wailin’ Jennys

Studio Jams #67

Kathleen Battle