ジョージ・ガーシュインの代表作「ラプソディ・イン・ブルー」 Rhapsody in Blue は1924年に書かれています。 これはジョージのクラシック音楽の最初の作品になります。 彼は1920年代中ごろに仏に滞在し、クラシック音楽の作曲技法を学ぼうとしています。 このときの体験を元に1928年に「パリのアメリカ人」(An American in Paris) を発表しています。 彼は1929年に、現在の『20世紀フォックス』と契約し、映画音楽を手がけるようになりました。
(何度も同じことを書いていますが、トーキー映画は1927年に出現しています)
ジョージ・ガーシュインのもう一つの代表作、デュボーズ・ヘイワード (DuBose Heyward) の原作を元にしたオペラ(フォーク・オペラ)『ポーギーとベス』 (Porgy and Bess) は1935年に書かれています。 この作品の中からはいくつもの有名曲が生まれました。 「ナマズがジャンプする」という歌詞が出てくるサマータイム("Summertime")はこの作品の中の曲の一つです。
この 『ポーギーとベス』の興行成績が芳しくなかったので、彼は1936年にハリウッドに移り、RKO Picturesと契約し、ミュージカル映画『踊らん哉』 (Shall We Dance) を書いています。この映画はフレッド・アステアとジンジャー・ロジャースの主演で大ヒットしました。
#265 - Rita Reys Sings The George Gershwin / CBS / 1975 #255 - Helen Merrill / Chasin' The Bird / Trio Records / 1979 #238 - Lyambiko / Lyambiko Sings Gershwin / Sony Music / 2011 #224 - Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Sings Gershwin / MCA (DECCA) / 1946, 1947, 1950. #208 - Bing Crosby / sings songs by George Gershwin / Decca / 1930's - 1950's #198 - Ella Fitzgerald / Nice Work If You Can Get It / Pablo / 1983. #161 - Chris Connor / Chris Connor Sings the George Gershwin Almanac of Song / Atrantic / 1956, 1957, 1959, 1961 #100 - Ella Fitzgerald / Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book / Verve / 1959. #51 - Sarah Vaughan / Sings George Gershwin / Master Jazz Records / 1957 #1 - Cheryl Bentyne / Gershwin Songbook / Artistshare / 2010
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********************************************************* 登場曲 (alphabetical) Composer/Lyricist/year - (comment No.) ********************************************************* "Ambulatory Suite: Promenade (Walking the Dog), March of the Swiss Soldiers, Fidgety Feet" (George Gershwin/????) - (#102) "Aren't You Kind of Glad We Did?" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1937) - (#68, 135) "Bidin' My Time" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1930) - (#61, 134) "Blah Blah Blah" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1931) - (#94, 180) "Boy Wanted"(George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1921) - (#130) "Boy! What Love Has Done to Me!" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1930) - (#151) "But Not for Me" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1930) - (#39, 90, 105, 163, 201, 219, 227, 269) "By Strauss" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1936) - (#118) "Cheerful Little Earful" (Harry Warren/Ira Gershwin & Billy Rose/1930) - (#159) "Clap Yo' Hands"(George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1926) - (#127, 182) "Do It Again" (George Gershwin/Buddy DeSylva/1922) - (#81) "Embraceable You" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1928) - (#87, 97, 149, 194, 205, 212, 257, 266) "Fascinating Rhythm" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1924) - (#3, 93, 152, 187, 249) "A Foggy Day (in London Town)" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1937) - (#19, 78, 126, 177, 199, 278) "For You, for Me, for Evermore"(George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1936) - (#128, 173) "Funny Face" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1927) - (#153) "The Half of It, Dearie, Blues" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1924) - (#137) "He Loves and She Loves" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1927) - (#73, 139) "How Long Has This Been Going on" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1927) - (#24, 63, 114, 190, 203, 232, 253) "I Can't Be Bothered Now" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1937) - (#150, 191, 258) "I Didn't Mean a Word I Said" (Jimmy McHugh/Harold Adamson/1946) - (#236) "I got plenty o' nuttin'" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward/1935) - (#216) "I Got Rhythm" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1930) - (#3, 157, 170, 243, 260) "I Loves You Porgy" (George Gershwin/DuBose Heyward & Ira Gershwin/1935) - (#178, 261, 273) "I Was Doing All Right" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1937) - (#138, 184) "I Won't Say I Will" (George Gershwin/Buddy DeSylva & Ira Gershwin/1923) - (#75, 85) "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise" (Buddy DeSylva & George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1922) - (#58) "I'm Just a Lucky So and So" (Duke Ellington/Mack David/1945) - (#235) "I've Got a Crush on You" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1928) - (#38, 66, 133, 166, 205, 231, 251) "(I've Got) Beginner's Luck" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1937) - (#108, 171) "Isn't It a Pity" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1933) - (#17, 54, 144) "It ain't necessarily so" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1935) - (#215, 240, 256) "Just Another Rhumba" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1937) - (#112) " (Oh Sweet and Lovely) Lady Be Good" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1924) - (#20, 109, 230, 268) "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1937) - (#46, 79, 107, 202, 246) "Let's Kiss and Make Up" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1927) - (#156) "Little Jazz Bird" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1924) - (#183) "Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away)" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin & Gus Kahn/1929) - (#168, 222) "Looking for a Boy" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1925) - (#72, 122, 169, 228) "Lorelei" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1933) - (#65, 154) "Love Is Here to Stay" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1937) - (#6, 142, 188, 280) "Love Is Sweeping the Country" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1931) - (#140, 174) "Love Walked In" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1930) - (#82, 146, 192, 218, 241, 267) "The Man I Love" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1924) - (#37, 62, 95, 98, 116, 175, 270) "Maybe" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1926) - (#92, 220, 233) "Mine" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1933) - (#221) "My Cousin in Milwaukee" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1932) - (#124) "My Man's Gone Now" (George Gershwin/DuBose Heyward/1935) - (#74) "My One and Only (What Am I Gonna Do?)" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1927) - (#64, 86, 106, 185, 226, 262) "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1937) - (#48, 96, 110, 179, 200, 229, 244) "Of Thee I Sing" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1931) - (#58, 83, 136, 164) "Oh, So Nice!" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1928) - (#155) "The Preludes: Prelude I, Prelude II, Prelude III" (George Gershwin/1926) - (103) "The Real American Folk Song (Is a Rag)" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1918) - (#120) "'S Wonderful" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1927) - (#49, 89, 115, 176, 239) "Sam and Delilah" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1930) - (#104) "Shall We Dance?" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1937) - (#145) "Slap That Bass" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1937) - (#143, 172, 252) "Somebody From Somewhere"(George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1931) - (#125) "Somebody Loves Me" (George Gershwin/Ballard MacDonald & Buddy DeSylva/1924) - (#158, 193, 217, 242) "Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1926) - (#21, 60, 119, 205, 225, 245, 263, 279) "Soon" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1927) - (#91, 132, 167, 234, 281) "Stiff upper lip"(George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1937) - (#129) "Strike Up the Band"(George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1927) - (#131, 165, 195) "Summertime" (George Gershwin/DuBose Heyward/1935) - (#18, 67, 84, 178, 196, 214, 247, 259, 272) "Swanee" (George Gershwin/Irving Caesar/1919) - (#209) "That Certain Feeling" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1925) - (#117, 186) "There's a Boat That's Leavin' Soon For New York" (George Gershwin/DuBose Heyward & Ira Gershwin/1935) - (#178) "They All Laughed" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1937) - (#70, 123, 189, 248) "They Can't Take That Away From Me" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1937) - (#88, 148, 181, 206, 213, 271) "Things Are Looking Up" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1937) - (#80, 111) "Treat Me Rough" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1930) - (#141) "Who Cares?" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1931) - (#121, 204, 250) "You've Got What Gets Me" (George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin/1932) - (#147)
1. It Ain't Necessarily So
2. Embraceable You (Quasimodo)
3. I Can't Be Bothered Now
4. Summertime
5. Isn't It A Pity
6. I Got Rhythm (Chasin' The Bird)
7. I Loves You, Porgy
8. Someone To Watch Over Me
Musicians:
Helen Merrill (vol)
Pepper Adams (bs)
Dick Katz (p)
Joe Puma (g)
Rufus Reid (b)
Mel Lewis (ds)
これは大変意欲的な企画のアルバムです。
ヘレン・メリルの旧友、ディック・カッツを協力者としてこのアルバムは企画されました。
ガーシュインの曲 "I Got Rhythm" のコード進行を基にチャーリー・パーカーが書いた曲 "Chasin' The Bird" をアルバムタイトルにしているところからも、この企画の意欲がうかがえます。
(アルバムジャケットには、このタイトルの下に GERSHWIN と書いてあるので、ガーシュインのソングブックと推察できます)
このアルバムでは、メリルが歌うガーシュインの原曲に、バックがそれを元曲にしたジャズの有名曲をバックで演奏するというチャレンジをしています。
そしてペッパー・アダムスを大きくフィーチャーさせ、他にも素晴らしいミュージシャンを揃えています。
彼女はデビュー・アルバム Helen Merrill With Clifford Brown (1954) が大成功し、一躍有名歌手になったのですが、このアルバムのスタイルはバックにクリフォード・ブラウンがいるというものではなく、クリフォード・ブラウンと共演しているというものでした。
本アルバムでもペッパー・アダムスは単なるバックではなく、共演者として大きく扱っています。
この曲は "I Got Rhythm" のコード進行を使ってチャーリー・パーカーが "Chasin' the Bird" という曲を書いたものを、ヘレンが "I Got Rhythm" を、ペッパー・アダムスが "Chasin' the Bird" を重ねて演奏するという編曲になっています。
さらに、チャーリー・パーカーがこの曲に "Chasin' the Bird" という曲名を付けたのは、作曲年の1947年当時、パーカーの追っかけをやっていたシーラ・ジョーダンのためにこの曲名にしたそうです。
Sheila Jordan (born Sheila Jeanette Dawson; November 18, 1928)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Jordan
上記の中にこのようにあります。
In a 2012 interview with JazzWax, when asked why she moved to New York, Jordan said, "I guess I was chasin' the Bird [Parker]." When asked if the song "Chasin' the Bird" was written for her, she replied, "No. I don't know how that rumor got started."
1. It Ain't Necessarily So
2. Embraceable You (Quasimodo)
3. I Can't Be Bothered Now
4. Summertime
5. I Got Rhythm (Chasin' The Bird)
6. I Loves You, Porgy
7. My One and Only
8. Someone To Watch Over Me
1. Embraceable You
2. Love Walked In
3. Oh, Lady Be Good!
4. But Not For Me
5. The Man I Love
6. They Can't Take That Away From Me
7. Summertime
8. I Loves You Porgy
9. A Foggy Day
10. Someone To Watch Over Me
11. Love Is Here To Stay
12. Soon
このコミュではおなじみの蘭の歌姫リタ・ライスのジョージ・ガーシュインのソングブック・アルバムです。
Rita Reys (born Maria Everdina Reijs; 21 December 1924 – 28 July 2013)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Reys
The Cool Voice of Rita Reys (1956) 彼女のデビュー・アルバム
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cool_Voice_of_Rita_Reys
Rita Reys and The Pim Jacobs Trio – Marriage In Modern Jazz (1960)
https://www.discogs.com/ja/release/9110906-Rita-Reys-and-The-Pim-Jacobs-Trio-Marriage-In-Modern-Jazz