"Production USA"--Label.

Compact disc.

Program notes by Don Rayno and biographical notes on the performers, in English with French and German translations (27 p. : ports.) inserted in container.

Recorded May 2007, except Apr. 2004 (track 9) and Apr. 2006 (tracks 10-11), at the Performing Arts Center, Purchase College, State University of New York; track 3 recorded by sound recording historian Jack Stanley using a 1909 Edison Fireside phonograph with a wax cylinder and acoustic horn.

Title on container: Gershwin by Grofé : symphonic jazz : original orchestrations & Ferde Grofé's Whiteman Orchestra arrangements

Symphonic jazz

I got rhythm : variations for piano and orchestra (1934) / original orchestration by George Gershwin (8:29)

The Yankee Doodle blues : from Spice of 1922 / George Gershwin, Irving Caesar, B.G. DeSylva (3:15)

The Yankee Doodle blues : new acoustic recording on a 1909 Edison Fireside phonograph (3:16)

That certain feeling : from Tip-toes : 1925 / George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin (2:36)

Somebody loves me : from George White's Scandals of 1924 / George Gershwin, B.G. DeSylva, Ballard MacDonald (2:47)

Sweet and low-down : from Tip-toes / George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin (2:47)

I'll build a stairway to paradise : from George White's Scandals of 1922 / George Gershwin, B.G. DeSylva, Arthur Francis (3:24)

The man I love : first recording of the 1938 version : from Lady, be good : 1924 / George Gerswin, Ira Gershwin (5:28)

Fascinating rhythm : from Lady, be good / George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin (3:08)

Summertime : from Porgy and Bess : 1935 [alto saxophone and piano] / George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward (4:05)

Rhapsody in blue : 1924, original "jazz band" version (15:31).

Jazz > 2001-2010.

Musicals > Excerpts, Arranged.

Paul Whiteman Orchestra.

Harmonie Ensemble/New York.