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Rhapsody in Blue is a 1924 musical composition for solo piano and jazz band by George Gershwin.Commissioned by bandleader Paul Whiteman, the work combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects and premiered in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music" on February 12, 1924, in Aeolian Hall, New York City.
With the wail of a clarinet, George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' electrified audiences 100 years ago. Today we still love it — and argue about it
Deodato 2 is a 1973 album by Brazilian keyboardist Eumir Deodato.It features noted session guitarist John Tropea on 4 tracks and virtuoso bassist Stanley Clarke on one song, "Skyscrapers".
In his long career, Mizrahi played his famous rendition of Rhapsody in Blue in the orchestra format nearly 200 times, and the Concert in F over 100 times. [8] In 2005, he released his autobiographical book, "Așa a fost" [9] Mizrahi died on February 25, 2010. He was interred the following day that the Bucharest Sephardic Jewish Cemetery. [10]
Eumir Deodato de Almeida (Brazilian Portuguese: [ẽwˈmiʁ deoˈdatu]; born 22 June 1943) [3] is a Brazilian pianist, composer, arranger and record producer, primarily in jazz but who has been known for his eclectic melding of genres, such as pop, rock, disco, rhythm and blues, classical, Latin and bossa nova.
This version was recorded and released on CD that year. An abbreviated version of Blue Monday, performed in blackface, was included in the 1945 film biography of Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue. The sequence was a fictionalized, but basically true re-creation of the work's opening performance. Bandleader Paul Whiteman appeared as himself.
Fellow Brooklynite Gershwin's 1924 composition Rhapsody in Blue, the opening musical number of the film, does seem perfectly apt for the film. The idea for the song came to Gershwin on a train journey to Boston , [ 2 ] which he describes as "a musical kaleidoscope of America, of our vast melting pot, our unduplicated national pep, our blues ...
John Ross Smeed Gorman (November 18, 1890 – February 27, 1953) [1] was an American jazz clarinetist, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist.Gorman is best remembered for his work with Paul Whiteman, particularly his famous clarinet glissando for Rhapsody in Blue, on which he also played oboe, bass clarinet, and saxophone. [2]