26 MELODIES IN A BOTTLE Fascinating Rythm, Chinese Blues, The Man I Love… These songs by George Gershwin have become true jazz standards. Let's be honest; these are programmatic pieces, with sophisticated harmonies highlighted here by the Bulgarian jazz musician and percussionist Hristo Yotsov's arrangement. Astonishing reminiscences of Eastern European music can be discerned in the jazz-inflected delicacy of Gershwin’s writing. Yet these pages, revisited with a lyrical dimension and such warm chromaticism, also evoke surprising harmonic associations – as though the America of the 1920s were crossing paths with Weimar-era Berlin.
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