Gershwin / Roger Williams, 1958: I Got Rhythm
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From the LP you see above, issued in 1958 on the KAPP label.

Roger Williams (born Louis Jacob Weertz, October 1, 1924 -- October 8, 2011) was an American popular music pianist. As of 2004, he had released 116 albums. He was born to a Lutheran minister, the Rev. Frederick J. Weertz (1891--1980) and a music teacher, Dorothea Bang Weertz (1895--1985), in Omaha, Nebraska. The family moved to Des Moines, Iowa, before his first birthday. He first played the piano at age three. In high school he became interested in boxing, mainly at his father's insistence, and only returned to music after breaking his nose several times and sustaining several other injuries. He majored in piano at Drake University in Des Moines, but claimed he was expelled for playing "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" in the practice room. Weertz entered the United States Navy and served in World War II. While still in the Navy, he earned a bachelor's degree from Idaho State College (now Idaho State University) in 1950. Afterwards, Weertz re-enrolled at Drake, where he earned his master's degree. He then moved to New York City to attend Juilliard, where he studied jazz piano under Lennie Tristano and Teddy Wilson. Williams won a talent contest on Dennis James' television program, Chance of a Lifetime.He was heard by David Kapp, founder of Kapp Records. Kapp was so impressed that he signed the pianist, changing his name to "Roger Williams" after the founder of Rhode Island.

I Got Rhythm est une chanson composée par George Gershwin, avec des paroles d'Ira Gershwin, sortie en 1930, et qui est rapidement devenu un standard de jazz. Sa grille harmonique a servi de fondation à beaucoup d'autres morceaux emblématiques du jazz tel que le standard Bebop de Charlie Parker "Anthropology". Écrit à l'origine avec un rythme lent pour la comédie musicale Treasure Girl (1928), le thème de cette chanson a été accéléré pour être intégré dans la comédie musicale Girl Crazy. Ethel Merman a chanté ce thème lors de la première de cette comédie musicale à Broadway, en 1930. On rapporte que George Gershwin, après cette première, lui demanda de ne plus jamais prendre de cours de chant. La mélodie utilise quatre notes d'une gamme pentatonique, de façon ascendante puis descendante, la spécificité rythmique du thème résidant dans son rythme syncopé. Ce thème a été par la suite enrichi, notamment dans Variations sur « I Got Rhythm » en 1934. Ce thème demeure emblématique du swing des années 1920 et du style d'écriture de Gershwin. La chanson est interprétée par Gene Kelly au cinéma dans la comédie musicale de 1951 Un Américain à Paris. Elle a été classée 32e au classement AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs des plus grandes chansons du cinéma américain.

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