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Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls
Compilation album by
George Gershwin
Released 1993
Recorded November 1992, February and June 1993
Studio The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City
Genre Jazz , classical
Length 60 : 08
Label Nonesuch Records
Producer Max Wilcox
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [1]
Christgau's Consumer Guide A? [2]

Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls is an album of piano rolls recorded (with one exception) by George Gershwin . It was released by Nonesuch Records in 1993.

Recording [ edit ]

Gershwin recorded these piano rolls between 1916 and 1927. Several rolls use overdubbing, so that Gershwin is in effect playing a four-handed piece solo.

The final selection, " An American In Paris ", was recorded by Frank Milne in 1933. Milne worked as a roll-editor with Gershwin in the 1920s, and edited several of the rolls reproduced on this disc. So skilled was Milne as a roll editor, the liner notes suggest that he may not have actually "played" "An American In Paris" at all?in the same way that a musician can write sheet music, Milne was able to prepare roll masters by marking the lines on special graph paper that would be used as a template for the holes punched in the actual piano roll.

The piano rolls were played back on a 9-foot Yamaha Disklavier grand piano, augmented by a 1911 Pianola operated by Artis Wodehouse . The Pianola allows for the operator to add "live" effects with piano footpumps and expression levers.

Reception [ edit ]

Allmusic awarded the album with 4.5 stars and its review by Scott Yanow states: "George Gershwin made 130 piano rolls between 1916 and 1927. Certainly such tunes as "Novelette in Fourths," "So Am I," and "Idle Dreams" are long forgotten but worth reviving." [3]

Track listing [ edit ]

No. Title Music Length
1. "Sweet and Lowdown" George Gershwin
(Lyric: Ira Gershwin ) 		3:30
2. "Novelette in Fourths" George Gershwin 2:24
3. " That Certain Feeling " George Gershwin
(Lyric: Ira Gershwin ) 		2:45
4. "So Am I" George Gershwin
(Lyric: Ira Gershwin ) 		4:14
5. " Rhapsody in Blue " George Gershwin 14:22
6. " Swanee " George Gershwin
(Lyric: Irving Caesar ) 		2:17
7. "When You Want 'Em You Can't Get 'Em, When You've Got 'Em, You Don't Want 'Em" George Gershwin
(Lyric: Murray Roth) 		1:57
8. "Kickin' the Clouds Away" George Gershwin
(Lyric: Ira Gershwin , Buddy DeSylva ) 		3:20
9. "Idle Dreams" George Gershwin
(Lyric: Arthur Jackson) 		2:59
10. "On My Mind the Whole Night Long" George Gershwin
(Lyric: Arthur Jackson) 		2:30
11. "Scandal Walk" George Gershwin
(Lyric: Arthur Jackson) 		3:15
12. " An American in Paris " George Gershwin 16:36

Personnel [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ Allmusic Review
  2. ^ Christgau, Robert (2000). "George Gershwin" . Christgau's Consumer Guide: Albums of the '90s . Macmillan Publishers . p. 115. ISBN   0312245602 .
  3. ^ Allmusic Review: Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls accessed 19 April 2010
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