Essential George Gershwin
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Hit: 5 Stars
Absolutely great album! Wonderful Gershwin would be enough but add all the greats in music and vocal categories and it's a smash hit, one after another. It is definatley a journey down memory lane, well worth the purchase. I will play this many times over, timeless!Free Music Review: Gershwin on the Money!
Hit: 5 Stars
Perlude #2 of Gershwin's "Three Preludes" is my all time favorite piece of music, and this wonderful cd presents it in a warm and loving way, as I think George Gershwin would have.Free Music Review: Gershwin
Hit: 5 Stars
essential is a great title for this CD. Wish they made them like him still. True classics that will live longer than me.Free Music Review: 5 stars
Hit: 5 Stars
If this is the kind of thing you are looking for, then you will really enjoy it.Free Music Review: Good beginning if interested in Gershwin
Hit: 4 Stars
I think the first place I heard a Gershwin piece was in a Tom & Jerry cartoon as a kid (the episode where Jerry leaves for the big city only, lives the highs and lows and then returns before Tom wakes up from his cat nap). I loved the music in that episode but didn't know who had composed it until recently.
After receiving this album as a gift I have to say that I am very pleased with it and will continue to explore more Gershwin.
Although I tend to like 'albums' per se... or set complete
pieces, I think that this double album does a good job of introducing the listener to the range of Gershwin. Incredible. So many songs!!!... and performed by the people who made them (once) famous- Fred Astaire, Al Jolson, a young Sinatra. I imagine that Jane Russell's rendition of "Do It Again" was a pretty adult oriented piece for the time... even today it made my blush a bit.
I would recommend this album to anyone who is interested in both a beginning look at the history of American music, and a taste of what Gershwin has to offer.
I don't give it 5 stars because I think that this isn't the pinacle of the Gershwin stuff out there.... but still a great beginner for 'greatest hits' type listening and easy to enjoy.