Porgy and Bess is a studio album by jazz vocalist and trumpeter Louis Armstrong and singer Ella Fitzgerald, released on Verve Records in 1959.
The third and final of the pair's albums for the label, it is a suite of selections from the George Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess.
In 1959, a big-budget film version produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by Otto Preminger arrived in theaters.
To coincide with the film, many jazz and vocal versions of the work were produced on records, this one and the celebrated Miles Davis and Gil Evans collaboration among them.
It is also part of the set The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong on Verve issued in 1997.