George Gershwin - Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls '1993

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       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. 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.


Track List:

01. Sweet And Lowdown [3:33]
02. Novelette In Fourths [2:41]
03. That Certain Feeling [2:47]
04. So Am I [4:18]
05. Rhapsody In Blue [14:25]
06. Swanee [2:18]
07. When You Want ’Em, You Can’T Get ’Em, When
You’Ve Got ’Em, You Don’T Want ’Em [1:58]
08. Kickin’ The Clouds Away [3:21]
09. Idle Dreams [3:00]
10. On My Mind The Whole Night Long [2:31]
11. Scandal Walk [3:17]
12. An American In Paris [16:35]

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