Gershwin,Whiteman Orchestra,King of Jazz,1930,30s Rhapsody in Blue (1930)

Rhapsody in Blue (1930)

posted by elysse 1 year 10 months 3 weeks ago • 1452 views

tags: Gershwin, Whiteman Orchestra, King of Jazz, 1930, 30s

it's amazing how much money was spent on sets then...

from YT:

"From "King of Jazz" (Universal Studios-1930.) The Paul Whiteman Orchestra playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with Roy Bargy on the piano. Dancing done by the Russell Markert Dancers, and Carla Laemmle."

awesome piano work at ~6:40

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Great find. That is a beautiful set design. My biggest complaint is that they didn't play the full 16 minute version of Gershwin's masterpiece. That's one of my favorite musical pieces from that era, and every single note is pure genius. It still got my upvote, of course. Scenes from movies like these are *obscure classics.

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kronosposeidon (and anyone else), you might be interested in the original '27 recording of R in B that's available on archive.org (http://www.archive.org/details/rhapblue11924) with Gershwin himself on piano. It's quite different, much looser and jazzier, than this and other renditions. It was a revelation to me.

And thanks elysse for this brilliant clip.

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uhm, WTF? Why is WMG putting the hammer down on a nearly-80 year old work?

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