The Potts recording was in contrast to the Gil Evans/Miles Davis landmark rendition of Porgy and Bess that commercially overshadowed it. The differences were merely in the arrangers’ taste and personality. The two recordings were equal artistically. --- Jazz Times
OP,
I am not sure what he, Potts, was trying to achieve. I guess I will now have to dig out Miles and compare. I do think that he missed the mark on one of the signature pieces of Porgy, "It ain’t necessarily so". If you don’t get that right, you don’t get P&B right. But, I did love "my man’s gone now".
It seems as if the players, who were all first class, played what was put in front of them, without considering what and who P&G was all about.
Can’t win them all.
Cheers