mikegreen1968 wrote:

Without re-opening the argument of a few months ago about jazz and classical, low and high art, It appears from the note next to his name above that he's touring. That's gotta be impressive for a dude who died in 1937.............

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malcoolm wrote:

Rhapsody in Blue - Love it!!

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AdamAntzx wrote:

An American in Paris eerily seems like a precursor to Eric Dolphy :S

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AdamAntzx wrote:

would it be safe to say that george gershwin was the first wigger in the music industry?

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Gamester wrote:

Join the new Leonard Bernstein Group Check it out! :o) http://www.last.fm/group/Leonard+Bernstein

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Stepanov_Ilya wrote:

он настолько охуенен что я просто кончаю! что мне делать? где купить его пластинки! :)

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Tancrisism wrote:

Truly, Gershwin's music has classical influences and jazz influences, and could be argued to have influenced both as well (although especially jazz, as at that time it was a relatively much more open pallette and classical had been long established). Amazing stuff though, just brilliant.

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due_friday wrote:

yes, its gossip, you got it

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Steelersrule wrote:

And Davis was definitely not the first/second to be respected (other celebrated artists before Miles: Jelly Roll Morton, Armstrong, Goodman, Parker, Gillespie, Monk, Mingus). Though I wouldn't say Ellington was closer to high art than Davis. That's just a pretentious comment that really has no veracity behind it.

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Steelersrule wrote:

First of all it's pointless debating whether Gershwin was classical or jazz; both descriptions have their merits. Secondly, only someone very uneducated about jazz history would say jazz was low art until Gershwin. Even from the beginning, especially after jazz was transported from NOLA to Chicago, jazz was taken seriously.

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cobaltraven wrote:

I love Rhapsody in Blue....it puts my frame of mind on the streets of NY city.

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due_friday wrote:

Im not saying your wrong, you probably are very well true. but it actually had nothing to do with what I was trying to say. and thanks to post modern irony, nobody should take me, nor anything else that serious. have a good one!

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due_friday wrote:

well all those jazz snobs can kiss my heinie. thanks to artists like gershwin, people should have learned to let go of the concept of high and low art. and dont get off topic with duke ellington. while duke stuck to jazz, gershwin was the being credited by huge names as stravinsky for his intellect, mastering the balancing act between jazz and contemporary western orchestration.

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Tancrisism wrote:

I don't care if you will title this jazz or classical; it is truly amazing piano compositions of a scale rarely heard. Beautiful, perfect music.

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zrsullivan wrote:

Actually, Due_Friday, Duke Ellington's career & music precedes Miles Davis by nearly forty years (beginning in the mid teens of the last century), & was far closer to high art than Davis ever came. In fact, Gil Evans, the mind behind Davis' greatest work, was greatly influenced by Duke. In some quarter of Jazz snobbery, you'd be claimed a blaspheme!

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due_friday wrote:

...he showed that jazz is suitable for the high arts, which was not at all self-evident at the time (until Miles Davis fulfilled the task with the birth of cool jazz)

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due_friday wrote:

I my eyes calling something simply classical is just pure pop culture bullshit. if you need to, call him expressionist, writing his work in the modernist epoch and being influenced by claude debussy and such. actually you could call him an early post modernist composer standing with one foot each in what germans like to call the E- and U-Music. alone by merging jazz with orchestral music he sh

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alleseter wrote:

you're quite mistaken: The music for On The Waterfront was penned by Leonard Bernstein and Gershwin DID write pure classical stuff: preludes, varations and a piano concerto, for example.

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