Gershwin's World
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Performer: Kenny GarrettPerformer: Alex Al
Performer: Bakithi Kumalo
Performer: Ira Coleman
Performer: Charles Curtis
Composer: Edward "Duke" Ellington
Composer: George Gershwin
Composer: W.C. Handy
Composer: James P. Johnson
Composer: Maurice Ravel
Performer: Terri Lyne Carrington
Performer: Marion Graves
Performer: Stevie Wonder
Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Performer: Herbie Hancock
Performer: Bireyma Guiye
Performer: Cheik Mbaye Mbaye
Performer: Cyro Baptista
Edition: Music CD
Format: Hybrid SACD
CD Release Date: 2004-11-09
Music Label: Verve
Soundtracks:
- Overture (Fascinating Rhythm) - Herbie Hancock, Gershwin, George
- It Ain't Necessarily So
- The Man I Love - Herbie Hancock, Gershwin, George
- Here Come De Honey Man
- St. Louis Blues - Herbie Hancock, Handy, W.C.
- Lullaby - Herbie Hancock, Handy, W.C.
- Blueberry Rhyme - Herbie Hancock, Johnson, James [01]
- It Ain't Necessarily So (Interlude)
- Cotton Tail - Herbie Hancock, Ellington, Duke
- Summertime
- My Man's Gone Now
- Prelude in C# Minor
- 2nd Movement
- Embraceable You - Herbie Hancock, Gershwin, George
Music reviews of Gershwin's World
Music Review: You will be enthralled
Rating: 5 Stars
Herbie just won another Grammy last week with River: the Joni Letters, so I thought I'd come back to this, his last project on Verve.
You won't find so much of standard tribute fare on Gershwin's World. It's more of a theme for some real creativity. There are two rhythmic fragments (including the Overture) that fade in and out and leave you wanting more. There's someone singing Summertime and another song, but don't look at who it is until you've heard them. There's also a great scat singer and harmonica player guesting on W.C. Handy's St. Louis Blues, but again don't look at the notes, just listen.
What else? Just a few odda and enda like Gershwin's Lullabye, with a string orchestra backing up Herbie, and something called Piano Concerto in D by a guy named Ravel, a piece in 3/4 that Hancock has turned into something ethereally else. Also a few very cool jazz numbers that turn all of this into a subtle smooth treat for jazz and music lovers.
You will be enthralled, mesmerized and amazed by this work.
Description of Gershwin's World
Perhaps the most ambitious of album tributes to George Gershwin on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth, Gershwin's World earns its title by encompassing not only jazz versions of key pop songs from his catalog and a version (with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra) of his Prelude in C-Sharp Minor but also reminding us of the composer's sources in everything from Ellington, W.C. Handy, and stride pianist James P. Johnson to Ravel. Those four are represented by versions of key pieces that affected Gershwin, in a bid to place his achievement in a context that is often discussed but perhaps too little listened to. This is an album that could have been a massive, pretentious failure; instead, with the likes of Wayne Shorter and a nearly unrecognizably torchy Joni Mitchell on hand, it's as close to a triumph as this type of thing reaches. --Rickey WrightGeneral CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Chamber Music > General
- Quartets
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( B )
- ( E ) > Ellington, Edward Duke
- ( R ) > Ravel, Maurice
- Forms & Genres > Concertos > General
- Preludes
- Historical Periods
- Instruments > Keyboard > Piano
- Opera & Vocal > General
- Historical Periods > Modern & 20th Century
- Languages > English
- Jazz > General
- Bebop > Bebop General
- Modern Postbebop
- R&B > Funk > General
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