Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue GENIUS SOLO PIANO ARRANGEMENT by Jack Gibbons

Award-winning genius Gershwin player Jack Gibbons plays his solo piano arrangement of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, based on Gershwin's piano rolls.

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[juzzyfuzz]

Masterful playing yes, but does that make him a genius??? Gershwin was the genius here... let's not forget that.

[madlovba3]

@juzzyfuzz He surely was, but that Gibbons was able to give all the orchestral sonorities back on solo piano, plus his idiosyncratic and yet highly artistic and amusing (not to mention virtuosic) playing makes him a genius, too. I think.

[OrangeSodaKing]

AWESOME!! Too bad that the other video had all those comments and 150 likes with ZERO dislikes, but I guess all that really matters is that this video is back on YouTube. Downloading NOW in case something happens again. Lol :)

[madlovba3]

@OrangeSodaKing Hopefully likes and comments will accumulate sooner or later :) Gibbons is fascinating, isn't he?! He does not simply just tame this beast of a piece but wins with a knock-out against it, and he does that with such an ease that simply makes my hair standing. I much prefer this version over Bernstein, Hamelin and Zimerman (although they play the version for piano and orchestra). Oh and btw, I posted two of Gibbons' own works, too, from the very same concert.

[electrocompany]

@madlovba3 ZImerman plays the Rhapsody?? :D

[madlovba3]

@electrocompany Yes, he does ;) I have a great non-commercial recording of it, but I mustn't share it, sorry.

[devilspjh]

one of the greatest performances of one of the greatest songs and it has 18k views? I'm preaching to the choir of course, but it's so frustrating to see what is and isn't popular in the music world today...

[Jessiegurl77]

I love his face at the end. It's like nbd..

[GoPriusGo]

never had the pleasure of seeing this pianist, but this has to be the most flawlessly executed play of this piece that i've ever heard.

[mbg2406]

Absolutely incredible performance! There's no law stating that only one person can be a musical genius so I see no reason that Gershwin and Gibbons can't both be considered geniuses. Both are certainly incredible musicians :)

[opertinicy]

nailed it.

[stevepaul1960]

I've seen Jack play many, many times...and the guy is awesome!

[videofreakmanic123]

Bravo

[lhrmeonom]

@madlovba3 Wasn't the orchestra arrangement was done after Gershwin had originally wrote his solo piano version of Rhapsody in Blue?

[TheChineseLionTamer]

I always think about the Fantasia cartoon as the song plays. :)

[DaniGeorgiaGirl]

@juzzyfuzz Gershwin provided the inspiration (1%) and Gibbons provided the perspiration (99%) for this arrangement, as Edison might say, were he alive.