Essential George Gershwin
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Edition: Music CDFormat: Limited Edition
CD Release Date: 2003-01-14
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Prelude No. 2 For Piano
- I Got Rhythm - Ethel Waters
- Oh Lady, Be Good - Buck & Bubbles
- Summertime - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
- Nice Work If You Can Get It - Maxine Sullivan & Her Orchestra
- They Can't Take That Away From Me - Fred Astaire
- Swanee - Al Jolson
- Liza - Benny Goodman
- Someone To Watch Over Me - Frank Sinatra
- 'S Wonderful - Dinah Shore & Buddy Clark
- Do It Again - Jane Russell
- Soon - Dorothy Kirsten
- Fascinating Rhythm/Someone To Watch Over Me - Morton Gould
- The Man I Love - Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra
- Let's Call The Whole Thing Off - Fred Astaire
- Love Is Here To Stay - Gene Kelly
- How Long Has This Been Going On? - Felicia Sanders
- Blues - Harry James & His Orchestra
- But Not For Me - Doris Day
- A Foggy Day - Rosemary Clooney
- I'll Build A Stairway to Paradise - Georges Guetary
- Third Movement (Allegro Agitato) - Oscar Levant & Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra Of New York
- Of Thee I Sing Overture - Buffalo Philharmonic
- They All Laughed - Tony Bennett
- Of Thee I Sing - The Hi-Lo's
- Promenade (Walking The Dog) - Los Angeles Philharmonic
- I've Got A Crush On You - Ella Fitzgerald
- Somebody Loves Me - Alberta Hunter
- Love Walked In/Embraceable You - Maureen McGovern
- Mine - Dick Hyman
- Isn't It A Pity - Mel Torm?
- Introduction and Jazzbo Brown - Andre Kostelanetz & His Orchestra
- It Ain't Necessarily So - Aretha Franklin
- Bess, You Is My Woman Now - Robert Mcferrin & Adele Addison
- I Loves You, Porgy - Miles Davis
- My Man's Gone Now - Sarah Vaughan
- There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York - Cab Calloway
- Who Cares? - Tony Bennett
- Rhapsody in Blue
- Strike Up The Band - Andr? Kostelanetz & His Orchestra
- Home Blues - Michael Feinstein
Free Music Notes for Essential George Gershwin
Free Music Review: Thoughts deep enough for tears
Hit: 5 Stars
Listening to this music I brought back to the America of my childhood and early years. Excuse the subjectivity of this review. I don't think there is anyone who doubts the greatness of this music. And the performers here Sinatra, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Ella, Jolson, Tony Bennett, Fred Astraire, Doris Day are the tops of the top.
That is to say as a review there is really nothing more to say, but that this is the top of the top in popular music.
But again listening to the very distinct sounds of someone like Jolly , or Sinatra, or the clarinet of Goodman I am connected to so many specific sights and scenes of my own past life, and of people who so loved this music and are no longer hear to enjoy it. As for Gershwin he is just the best there is, these melodies have been heard so often they sing in my soul as in so many other souls, wherever we go.
It just brings me thoughts deep enough for tears.
Essential George Gershwin Poster
Given his seemingly effortless ability at melding such disparate forms as jazz and gospel with his own rare melodic gifts, it's not hard to view George Gershwin as America's first classical crossover artist. But as this glorious, 41-track double-disc introduction to Gershwin's epochal repertoire quickly demonstrates, that assessment woefully shortchanges the sheer grandeur of "Rhapsody in Blue" or the sultry earthiness of "Summertime." Singer and pop musicologist Michael Feinstein produced the set (as well as contributing a new recording of "Home Blues"), and under his guidance it understandably leans toward Gershwin's remarkable body of songcraft, though it also includes more concert-oriented pieces such as the "Rhapsody" and "Prelude No. 2," both in original performances by the composer. But Feinstein's loving sense of American pop song history insures that the performances here are both inspired and enlightening. Indeed, his choices represent not only a who's who of 20th-century pop and saloon singers--spanning a rich pantheon that includes Jolson, Kelly, Astaire, Holliday, Sinatra, Bennett, Waters, Torme, Clooney, Day, Vaughan, and Fitzgerald--but deftly underscore Gershwin's transcendent synthesis of style, era, and distinctly American subject matter. Also includes a written tribute by modern songwriter Diane Warren and an essay by Pulitzer Prize winner Tim Page. --Jerry McCulleyBroadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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