Tuesday 18 July 2017

nOBODY eLSE BUT ME jEROME kERN GETS GROOVY

Nobody Else But Me       Some  Twenty years after his original Showboat, Jerome Kern wrote a new song for a revival of  his famous Showboat creation.  Nobody Else But me is so American in style with the confident swagger of Broadway and the Jazz world.    He discarded his earlier European influenced operetta style and fully adopted the modernity in popular music that evolved in the 1930's and forties.

Tony Bennett demonstrates his own affinity for the Jazz tradition with a relaxed yet compelling rhythmic  pulse provided by a small combo.    https://youtu.be/LAEI8iRUepw  

1 comment:

  1. Jerome Kern abandons operetta style for a modern,jazzy pop song sung by Tony Bennett . Tony has deep roots in the jazz
    mood himself.

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