Variations on "I Got Rhythm" by Edward Neeman, performed by the composer

Variations on I Got Rhythm approach Gershwin's jazz idiom from a more modernistic standpoint. Serial techniques are combined with jazz to give a richly chromatic, often dissonant, texture while retaining the syncopations and improvisatory gestures of jazz. To a certain extent the work is a parody of Gershwin's own Variations on I Got Rhythm, and many references can be heard in the first few variations. For example, the opening is a twelve-tone version of the clarinet solo that opens the Gershwin original, and Gershwin's Chinese variation is briefly imitated in the second variation. Both works incorporate a more romantic Slow Waltz variation. The variations conclude with a virtuosic jazz fugue.

Recorded at Yamaha Artist Studios, New York on May 22, 2009

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[dacapomusic]

Very Impressive technique, great Passion, dynamics and expression... would have like to hear more of the music in the earlier stages so that you could have taken me the listener with you on the journey, rather than just offering me the destination from the very beginning..

[dmnemaine]

Very ambitious to do something that Gershwin himself did with the song. Tough shoes to fill, but you made a very good attempt at it.

[ReturnOfTheStienway]

This is very much like a painting impression of the original. Really amazing man, you have lots of advanced harmonic devices. BRAVO!