Cole Plays Gershwin
Track Listings
| 1. I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise | ||
| 2. Somebody Loves Me | ||
| 3. Rialto Ripples / Fascinating Rhythm | ||
| 4. Tra-La-La | ||
| 5. Liza | ||
| 6. Feeling Sentimental / Love Is Here To Stay | ||
| 7. Gershwin Medley | ||
| 8. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso | ||
| 9. Andante con moto e poco rubato | ||
| 10. Gershwin Melody No. 17 | ||
| 11. Agitato | ||
| 12. Things Are Looking Up / A Foggy Day | ||
| 13. Wake Up Brother, and Dance | ||
| 14. They Can't Take That Away From Me | ||
| 15. RHAPSODY IN BLUE |
Editorial Reviews Among the reasons: performances such as these by Kevin Cole-Gershwinesque, vibrant, twinkling with humor and richly romantic. Years ago, Kevin, barely twenty, attended a party in the Greenwich Village apartment of Emily Paley, a lifelong friend of Gershwin. He would entertain a special group of friends by playing a piano that Gershwin had selected for her. Kevin proceeded to improvise a medley of Gershwin songs, as Gershwin himself had often done on the same instrument. Midway through, Emily’s brother, English Strunsky, who had heard Gershwin play whispered, "Where did he learn to play like George?" He didn’t; he simply does. Other Gershwinites agreeing: Mabel Schirmer, Frances Godowsky (Gershwin’s younger sister, Frankie), as well as lyricist E.Y. Harburg ("Over the Rainbow"), who exclaimed, "I haven’t heard anyone play like that since George! Other Kevin admirers include songwriters Harold Arlen, Irving Berlin, and Hugh Martin, a virtual Who’s Who of American popular song. Kevin, without realizing it, had recreated the kind of party that Gershwin had energized at the Paleys in the Village of the 1920’s, or at his penthouses in the Twenties and Thirties. Welcome to the Party! -Ed Jablonski
Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune
"...the Best Gershwin Pianist in America Today."
Andrew Patner, Chicago Sun Times
"A piano genius… pure show-biz virtuosity that would have had Vladimir Horowitz smiling with envy."
Album Description
The world has celebrated the centennial of George Gershwin’s birth, and, despite the incessant pommeling his music undergoes with regularity, he and his works will be around for a second hundred.
Gershwin Biographer
Cole Plays Gershwin
Cole Plays Gershwin, Music, George Gershwin, Piano Kevin Cole, "The Best Gershwin Pianist in America Today." -Chicago Tribune
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