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"It Sounds Jazzy" - What Music Inspired Directly By Gershwin?

What a nice thread. You're wife's response is so interesting, particularly in light of what was happening in music around about 1918-1925.

I know that Rachmaninov [one my favs] head left Russia for good due to the revolution, and had visited our country, where he eventually settled. In the process, he was exposed to jazz. It was, obviously, the early form of jazz. I think he chiefly heard Paul Whiteman's band.

He liked it. He said so. Curiously, later he didn't like the newly emerged swing, but he continued to have affection for the jazz of the teens and twenties. The first composition, AFAIK, that he completed, under the influence of his American stay, and Gershwin specifically, was the 4th Piano Concerto.

And, obviously, we have the Ravel concerto, composed under the influence of jazz and Gershwin.

So, what other works were also influenced similarly? I know that there were quite a lot.


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