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Herbie Hancock - Gershwin's World
Posted By : apache | Date : 27 Feb 2007 20:31:00 | Comments : 4

Herbie Hancock - Gershwin's World
Jazz | Verve- 1998 | APE | 358 Mb

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.

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Other albums (all in Lossless format - APE, FLAC) Direct links available:
Christmas rock opera (DVD):
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - The Ghost Of Christmas Eve [DVD]

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On Gershwin's World, Herbie Hancock probes the essence of Gershwin’s muse in exciting new contexts, from the opening "Overture", with its African drum extrapolation of "Fascinating Rhythm", through the final, heartfelt solo treatment of "Embraceable You". But he doesn’t stop with Gershwin. The piano duet performance with Corea on Johnson’s "Blueberry Rhyme", the powerful Hancock and Stevie Wonder interpretation of Handy’s "St. Louis Blues", the sumptuous, orchestra-accompanied improvisation on Ravel’s Concerto for Piano in G, and the rousing version of Ellington’s "Cotton Tail", with Shorter soloing on tenor, open new windows on the world from which Gershwin emerged and the world he himself influenced. The African-American blues tradition, the musical ferment in Harlem, and French impressionism all inspired Gershwin. In turn, his "I Got Rhythm" became the basis for countless later jazz compositions, including "Cotton Tail".

Featuring performances by vocal superstars Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, and Kathleen Battle, and the instrumental contributions of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, pianist Chick Corea, saxophonists Wayne Shorter, James Carter, and Kenny Garrett, trumpeter Eddie Henderson, and bassist Ira Coleman, Gershwin’s World finds Hancock applying his unique piano genius not only to classic songs by Gershwin, but to pieces by contemporaries closely associated with Gershwin — stride piano master James P. Johnson, blues popularizer W. C. Handy, classical composer Maurice Ravel, and jazz giant Duke Ellington, making Gershwin's world another historic landmark in the rich and uncommonly diverse catalog of another American master, Herbie Hancock.


Featuring performances by vocal superstars Stevie Wonder, Joni Mitchell, and Kathleen Battle, and the instrumental contributions of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, pianist Chick Corea, saxophonists Wayne Shorter, James Carter, and Kenny Garrett, trumpeter Eddie Henderson, and bassist Ira Coleman, Gershwin’s World finds Hancock applying his unique piano genius not only to classic songs by Gershwin, but to pieces by contemporaries closely associated with Gershwin — stride piano master James P. Johnson, blues popularizer W. C. Handy, classical composer Maurice Ravel, and jazz giant Duke Ellington, making Gershwin's world another historic landmark in the rich and uncommonly diverse catalog of another American master, Herbie Hancock.

Track List:
1. Overture (Fascinating Rhythm)
2. It Ain't Necessarily So
3. The Man I Love
4. Here Come De Honey Man
5. St. Louis Blues
6. Lullaby
7. Blueberry Rhyme
8. It Ain't Necessarly So (Interlude)
9. Cotton Tail
10. Summertime
11. My Man's Gone Now
12. Prelude In C# Minor
13. Concerto For Piano And Orchestra In G, Second Movement
14. Embraceable You

Personels:
Herbie Hancock Piano, Organ
Cheik Mbaye (1) Percussion
Eddie Henderson (2, 4, 8) Trumpet
Kenny Garrett (2, 4, 8) Alto Saxophone
James Carter Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
Ira Coleman (2-4, 8-10, 12) Bass
Terri Lyne Carrington (2-3, 5, 9) Drums
Joni Mitchell (3, 10) Vocal
Wayne Shorter Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone
Marlon Graves Guitar, Percussion
Cyro Baptista (4, 8, 11, 12) Percussion
Stevie Wonder Vocal, Harmonica
Charles Curtis (12) Cello
Robert Sadin Producer
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