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MORE REVIEWS OF BWRG (2010-08-19&20)

2010-08-20 from onpointradio.org
> Brian Wilson on Gershwin’s Music (listen to this show)

2010-08-20 from ology.com
Album Review: 'Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin' (By BRETT WARNER)

2010-08-19 from boomrethink.typepad.com
Brian Wilson Hangs Ten with Gershwin

MORE REVIEWS OF BWRG (2010-08-18)

2010-08-18 from dailycal.org
Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin.(By Jill Cowan)

2010-08-18 from broadwayworld.com
SOUND OFF: Brian Wilson Talks Gershwin, GLEE, Good Vibrations & More!

2010-08-18 from popmatters.com
Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin (By Crispin Kott)

CHECK IT OUT!

# Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin

MORE REVIEWS

A list of the latest. You'll have to check it out for new additions!


2010-08-17 from kearth101.radio.com
> Brian Wilson Visits The Morning Show!

2010-08-17 from peteramescarlin.com
Brian Wilson Reimagines Brian Wilson: America's native tormented musical genius keeps it as real as possible

2010-08-17 from capitalnewyork.com
Music for salad courses: 'Brian Wilson Reimagines George Gershwin' reviewed

2010-08-17 from ontheredcarpet.com
Brian Wilson releases Gershwin album with Beach Boys sound (with video!)

2010-08-17 from expressnightout.com
Pet Standards: Brian Wilson, 'Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin'

2010-08-17 from philly.com
These new musica albums are, well, different

2010-08-16 from music.msn.com
Wilson and Gershwin: Top American Pop Masters Meet (with video: track by track comments by Brian)

2010-08-16 from spinner.com
Brian Wilson Resurrects Gershwin, Addresses Beach Boys Reunion Talk

2010-08-16 from spinner.com
Brian Wilson Says Reimagining Classic and New Gershwin Tunes Is Proudest Moment

2010-08-16 from spinner.com
> Full CD Listening Party

2010-08-16 from baltimoresun.com

New Brian Wilson album puts a Beach Boys stamp on music of George Gershwin

2010-08-16 from soundspike.com

Album: Brian Wilson, "Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin" (Disney Pearl Series)

2010-08-16 from latimes.com
Brian Wilson waxes rhapsodic on Gershwin

2010-08-15 from nypost.com
Surfin’ Gershwin

2010-08-15 from bostonherald.com

Reimagine: Wouldn’t it be nice to hear Brian Wilson sing George Gershwin?

2010-08-15 from pressherald.com

Brian Wilson's good vibrations

2010-08-15 from hitfix.com

Review: Two American classics meet on 'Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin'

2010-08-15 from nytimes.com

Fun, Fun, Fun With Porgy, Bess and George

2010-08-14 from slantmagazine.com

Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin (by Joseph Jon Lanthier)

2010-08-13 from theglobeandmail.com

Please report for duty, Brian Wilson

2010-08-13 from webcastr.com (short promo video)

> Brian Wilson on Reimagining Gershwin

also:

2010-08-11 from dailynews.com

Brian Wilson 'Sunset Blvd' guitar by Lauren Evans

& article Strip's storied history is noted

BRIAN WILSON REACHES BACK FOR 'GERSHWIN' PROJECT

In 2004, Brian Wilson scored a critical and commercial victory by releasing a completed version of "Smile," the legendary "Pet Sounds" follow-up he'd originally begun work on in 1966.
Six years later, the Beach Boys mastermind is reaching even further back in time for his latest project, "Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin," due Aug. 17 from Walt Disney Records.

augustus 06, 2010 Mikael Wood
article from billboard.com

+ livestream.com: Interview

+ nyconversation.com: of-talent-lost-and-found

+ nodepression.com: Review: Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin

+ blog.napster.com: Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin Coming Next Tuesday, Aug. 17

HIS PET SOUND

Beach Boy Brian Wilson takes on his musical hero, George Gershwin.

Aug 1, 2010 Aaron Gell

nymag.com/arts/popmusic/features/67401

+ This past week I had the honor of introducing Brian Wilson at the Los Angeles album-listening party...

+ Beach Boy plays George Gershwin

+ spin.com/reviews/
brian-wilson-brian-wilson-reimagines-gershwin-walt-disney

+ poisonivyjones.blogspot.com/2010/08/
brian-wilson-celebrates-gershwin.html

FIRST LISTEN: 'BRIAN WILSON REIMAGINES GERSHWIN'

At a listening session Wednesday night in West Hollywood, an audience of about 100 invited guests, including record company executives, journalists and others, got a listen to the result, “Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin,” the album scheduled for release Aug. 17.

July 29, 2010 Randy Lewis
latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2010/07/brian-wilson-gershwin-reimagines.html

+ blogs.reuters.com/fanfare/2010/07/29/s-wonderful-brian-wilson-tackles-gershwins-catalog

+ 20th Century Boys: Brian Wilson and George Gershwin (by Peter Ames Carlin)

+ It certainly sounds intriguing: Brian Wilson

BRIAN WILSON CRAFTS "NEW" GERSHWIN SONGS AND INTERPRETS OLD FAVORITES ON "REIMAGINES GERSHWIN" CD

QUOTE:

Wilson said in a statement, "Along with Irving Berlin, Gershwin basically invented the popular song, but he did something more.
He had a gift for melody that nobody has ever equaled, yet his music is timeless and always accessible.
This is the most spiritual project I've ever worked on."

29 Jun 2010 Kenneth Jones
playbill.com/news/article/140818-
Brian-Wilson-Crafts-New-Gershwin-Songs-and-Interprets-Old-Favorites-on-Reimagines-Gershwin-CD

+ similar prnewswire.com/news-releases/
music-legend-brian-wilson-completes-brian-wilson-reimagines-gershwin-a-new-disney-pearl-cd-of-george-and-ira-gershwin-classics-set-for-release-august-17-97375459.html

'MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN': BRIAN WILSON AND GEORGE GERSHWIN

CD promotional interview

The album title alone is enough to make pop-music pundits drool, pairing two of the 20th century's most celebrated tunesmiths: Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin.

The recording itself, which arrives Aug. 17, was a "labor of love" for Wilson, 68, who was a George Gershwin fan long before he was a Beach Boy or had even discovered the piano.
"Before I could play music, I could hear it," Wilson says, and Gershwin became a hero when he first heard Rhapsody in Blue at about age 4.

June 29 2010 Elysa Gardner
usatoday.com

BRIAN WILSON REIMAGINES GERSHWIN

Here is a view of the new cd cover and a photo attached to it. It will be released in August.
Doesn't it look fantastic?

Tracklist (taken from allmusic):

1 Rhapsody In Blue (Intro) 1:07
2 The Like In I Love You 3:19*
3 Summertime 3:13
4 I Loves You Porgy 3:37
5 I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' 2:44
6 It Ain't Necessarily So 3:57
7 'S Wonderful 2:48
8 They Can't Take That Away From Me 2:50
9 Love is Here To Stay 2:58
10 I've Got a Crush On You 2:41
11 I Got Rhythm 2:42
12 Someone To Watch Over Me 3:04
13 Nothing But Love 3:24*
14 Rhapsody In Blue (Reprise) :37

* are presumably the new pieces.

Check it out at brianwilson.com
and amazon.com/Brian-Wilson-Reimagines-Gershwin/dp/B002RWKSII/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1277725546&sr=1-1

NEW BRIAN WILSON CD IS (?) EXPECTED ON AUGUST 17

Walt Disney Records will release a Cd called The Gershwin Songbook by Brian Wilson.

The Gershwin Songbook is expected on August 17!

May 3 2010
that's all... musictap.net



UPDATE from the official webforum:

there are rumors, however, Disney has not yet set a release date for Brian's forthcoming "Gershwin" album. We've been assured that as soon as a date is set, you will be the first to know.
brianwilson.com

+ ABOUT THE SONG TITLES
News (December 2009?) from beachboysbritain :
Prior to embarking on this recent jaunt, Brian and the band spent a few days in Oceanway (the old Western) studio, recording seven basic tracks for an album tentatively titled Wilson Sings Gershwin, these included:

"I Loves You Porgy"
"Summertime"
"Someone to Watch Over Me"
"Let's Call The Whole Thing Off"
"I Got Plenty Of Nothing"
'the pretty section from "Rhapsody in Blue"'.

+ recent additions from smileysmile.net/board
"A three-song medley"
"It Ain't Necessarily So"
"Two unfinished Gershwin piano pieces"

UPDATE
Gershwin-Songbook-Brian-Wilson on AMAZON Wishlist

Rhapsody In Blue

1943 or 1944, Glenn Miller version

1924 written by: George Gershwin



youtube.com/watch?v=IEpdXgj94xE&fmt=18
wiki: The civilian band version has Bobby Hackett solo in the middle. "Rhapsody in Blue" from the civilian band is not the entire work, but rather a section of the work arranged to fit on a 10" 78 rpm record. It was released as Victor 20-1529-A.
I've read (somewhere on messageboards) that Glenn Miller's version was the one that Brian Wilson knew as a young boy and gave him inspiration. Here's a link for...

+ Gershwin original recording 1927
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U40xBSz6Dc&fmt=18
others say his fave version in the 60's was by Stanley Black with the London Festival Orchestra http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=12863

+ wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhapsody_in_blue
+ News (December 2009?) from http://www.beachboysbritain.org.uk/news.html:
Prior to embarking on this recent jaunt, Brian and the band spent a few days in Oceanway (the old Western) studio, recording seven basic tracks for an album tentatively titled Wilson Sings Gershwin, these included:
"I Loves You Porgy", "Summertime", "Someone to Watch Over Me", "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off", "I Got Plenty Of Nothing" and 'the pretty section from "Rhapsody in Blue"'.
+ Peter Reum sheds a light on SMiLE (includes Gershwin-SMiLE connection)http://www.vandykeparks.com/miscfiles/opensky.html

BRIAN WILSON INTERVIEW REVEALS NO PLANS PAST GERSHWIN

The following is the complete interview with Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson as he was beginning a new album of Gershwin music following a short tour:

December 3, 2009 Bruce Fessier
http://www.mydesert.com/article/20091203/LIFESTYLES01/91203020/Brian+Wilson+interview+reveals+no+plans+past+Gershwin

COVERING CLASSICS BY THE GERSHWINS IS A DREAM JOB FOR BRIAN WILSON

QUOTE:

“Rhapsody in Blue” will be done a cappella, Wilson said, an artistic choice that should thrill fans of his vocals-only pieces, like the majestic “Our Prayer” from “Smile” or the soaring “One for the Boys” from “Brian Wilson.”

Foskett can’t wait for the vocal sessions to begin. “That’s where I’m really going to enjoy it,” he said. “As cool as the tracks are that we’ve laid down, I think the real genius of Brian’s touch and arrangement skills is going to come into play when he starts doing the vocals.”

November 27, 2009 Mark Wyckoff
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2009/nov/27/nice-work-if-you-can-get-it-covering-classics-by/

BRIAN WILSON TO FINISH SOME GEORGE GERSHWIN SONGS

Wilson plans to finish and record at least two songs on an album of Gershwin music that could be released next year.

In a surprise union of two quintessentially American composers from different eras, one the 1960s mastermind of "Good Vibrations," the other the Jazz Age creator of "Rhapsody in Blue," former Beach Boy Brian Wilson has been authorized by the estate of George Gershwin to complete unfinished songs Gershwin left behind when he died in 1937.

8/10/2009 Randy Lewis
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-et-brian-wilson8-2009oct08,0,2518188.story

+ BRIAN WILSON SIGNS WITH WALT DISNEY RECORDS

http://www.brianwilson.com/news/press.html

+ More news and updates, restyled website:
http://www.brianwilson.com/index.html

+

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8297635.stm

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