Track listing

1. "Fascinating Rhythm
   Fascinating Rhythm
   "Fascinating Rhythm" is a popular song written by George Gershwin in 1924 with lyrics by Ira Gershwin.It was first introduced by Cliff Edwards, Fred Astaire and Adele Astaire in the Broadway musical Lady Be Good. The Astaires also recorded the song on April 19, 1926 in London with George Gershwin...
   
    Overture"
2. "It Ain't Necessarily So
   It Ain't Necessarily So
   "It Ain't Necessarily So" is a popular song with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The song comes from the Gershwins' opera Porgy and Bess where it is sung by the character Sportin' Life, a drug dealer, who expresses his doubt about several statements in the Bible.The role of...
   
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3. "The Man I Love
   The Man I Love (song)
   "The Man I Love" is a popular standard, with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by his brother Ira. Originally part of the 1924 score for the Gershwin government satire Lady, Be Good as "The Girl I Love", the song was deleted from the show as well as from both the 1927 anti-war satire Strike Up...
   
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4. "Here Come De Honey Man"
5. "St. Louis Blues"
6. "Lullaby"
7. "Blueberry Rhyme"
8. "It Ain't Necessarily So
   It Ain't Necessarily So
   "It Ain't Necessarily So" is a popular song with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The song comes from the Gershwins' opera Porgy and Bess where it is sung by the character Sportin' Life, a drug dealer, who expresses his doubt about several statements in the Bible.The role of...
   
    Interlude"
9. "Cotton Tail
   Cotton Tail
   "Cotton Tail" is a 1940 composition by Duke Ellington. It is based on the rhythm changes from George Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm". The first Ellington recording is notable for the driving tenor saxophone solo by Ben Webster. Originally an instrumental, "Cotton Tail" later had lyrics written for it by...
   
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10. "Summertime
    Summertime (song)
    "Summertime" is an aria composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, although the song is also co-credited to Ira Gershwin by ASCAP....
    
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11. "My Man's Gone Now
    My Man's Gone Now
    My Man's Gone Now is a song composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by DuBose Heyward, written for the folk opera Porgy and Bess . Sung in the original production by Ruby Elzy, it has been covered by many female singers notably Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughan, and Shirley Horn, among...
    
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12. "Prelude In C# Minor
    Three Preludes
    Three Preludes are short piano pieces by George Gershwin and were first performed by the composer at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York in 1926. Each prelude is a well known example of early 20th century American classical music, as influenced by jazz....
    
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13. "Concerto For Piano And Orchestra In G, 2nd Movement"
14. "Embraceable You
    Embraceable You
    "Embraceable You" is a popular song, with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. The song was originally written in 1928 for an unpublished operetta named East is West. It was eventually published in 1930 and included in the Broadway musical Girl Crazy. where it was performed by...
    
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Personnel

• Alex Al – bass
• Toby Appel – viola
• Cyro Baptista
  Cyro Baptista
  Cyro Baptista is a Brazilian musician, teacher, and recording artist specializing in percussion in the genres of jazz and world music....
  
   – percussion
• Kathleen Battle
  Kathleen Battle
  Kathleen Battle , is an African-American operatic soprano known for her agile and light voice and her silvery, pure tone. Battle initially became known for her work within the concert repertoire through performances with major orchestras during the early and mid 1970s. She made her opera debut in...
  
   – soprano, vocals
• Ronnie Bauch – violin
• Martha Caplin – concert master, violin
• Terri Lyne Carrington
  Terri Lyne Carrington
  Terri Lyne Carrington is a jazz drummer, composer, record producer and entrepreneur. She has played with jazz legends Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Clark Terry, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Joe Sample, Al Jarreau, Yellowjackets, and many more...
  
   – drums, production assistant
• James Carter
  James Carter (musician)
  James Carter is an American jazz musician.Carter was born in Detroit, Michigan and learned to play there before moving to New York City. He has been prominent as a performer and recording artist on the jazz scene since the mid-1990s, playing saxophones, flute, and bass clarinet...
  
   – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Ron Carter
  Ron Carter
  Ron Carter is an American jazz double-bassist. His appearances on over 2,500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, along with Milt Hinton, Ray Brown and Leroy Vinnegar. Carter is also an acclaimed cellist who has recorded numerous times on that...
  
   – bass
• Susannah Chapman – cello
• Catherine Cho – violin
• Sarah Clarke – principal viola
• Stanley Clarke
  Stanley Clarke
  Stanley Clarke is an American jazz musician and composer known for his innovative and influential work on double bass and electric bass guitar as well as for his numerous film and television scores...
  
   – bass
• Ira Coleman – bass, production assistant
• Chick Corea
  Chick Corea
  Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea is an American jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer.Many of his compositions are considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis' band in the 1960s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever...
  
   – piano
• Charles Curtis – cello
• Nicolas Danielson – violin
• Marji Danilow – bass
• Madou Dembelle – djembe
  Djembe
  A djembe also known as jembe, jenbe, djbobimbe, jymbe, yembe, or jimbay, or sanbanyi in Susu; is a skin-covered drum meant played with bare hands....
  
  
• Matthew Dine – English horn
• Massamba Diop – talking drum
• Karen Dreyfus – viola
• Jennifer Frautschi – violin
• Kenny Garrett
  Kenny Garrett
  Kenny Garrett is a Grammy Award-winning American post bop jazz saxophonist and flautist who gained fame in his youth as a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and of Miles Davis's band. He has since pursued a critically acclaimed solo career...
  
   – alto saxophone
• Marlon Graves – guitar, mixing, percussion
• Michael Finn – principal bassoon
• Brian Greene – oboe
• Bireyma Guiye – percussion
• Herbie Hancock
  Herbie Hancock
  Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...
  
   – arranger, liner notes, organ, piano
• Eddie Henderson – flugelhorn, trumpet
• Cynde Iverson – bassoon
• Gene Jackson – drums
• Joanna Jenner – violin
• Renee Jolles – violin
• Chris Komer – horn
• Bakithi Kumalo – bass, guitar
• Elizabeth Mann – flute
• Cheik Mbaye – percussion
• Melissa Meel – cello
• Joni Mitchell
  Joni Mitchell
  Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...
  
   – vocals
• Katherine Murdock – viola
• Charles Neidich
  Charles Neidich
  Charles Neidich is an American classical clarinetist, composer, and conductor.-Early career:A native New Yorker of Russian and Greek descent, Charles Neidich began his clarinet studies with his father, Irving Neidich, at the age of eight, and continued them with the renowned teacher Leon Russianoff...
  
   – clarinet, E flat clarinet
• Ahling Neu – viola
• Donald Palma – principal bass
• Ellen Payne – violin
• Todd Phillips – violin
• Nardo Poy – viola
• William Purvis – principal horn
• Richard Rood – violin
• Eriko Sato – principal violin
• Wayne Shorter
  Wayne Shorter
  Wayne Shorter is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.He is generally acknowledged to be jazz's greatest living composer, and many of his compositions have become standards...
  
   – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
• David Singer – clarinet
• Mina Smith – cello
• Clavin Wiersman – violin
• Peter Winograd – violin
• Stevie Wonder
  Stevie Wonder
  Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...
  
  – arranger, harmonica, vocals
• Asmira Woodward-Page – violin
• Eric Wyrick – violin
• Naoko Tanaka – violin

Credits

• David Charles Abell – consultant
• Robi Banerji – assistant engineer
• Istvan Banyai – artwork, illustrations
• Thom Cadley – assistant engineer
• Dave Darlington – engineer
• Rob Eaton – audio engineer, engineer
• Steve Genewick – assistant
• Clark Germain – audio engineer, engineer
• Fred Hedemark – assistant engineer
• Pete Karam – assistant engineer
• Jimmy Katz – photography, session photographer
• Theodora Kuslan – release coordinator
• Ron Martinez – assistant engineer
• Andreas Meyer – digital editing
• James Minchin – cover photo, photography
• Pedro Moreira – assistant, music assistant
• Melinda Murphy – production coordination
• Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
• Darcy Proper – digital editing
• Rob Rapley – digital editing, engineer
• Robert Sadin – arranger, audio production, drum programming, liner notes, percussion programming, producer, programming
• Doug Sax – mastering
• Al Schmitt – surround mix
• Bill Airey Smith – digital editing
• Jason Stasium – assistant engineer
• Brett Swain – assistant engineer
• Bruce Swedien – mixing
• David Swope – assistant engineer
• Kayo Teramoto – assistant engineer
• Camille Tominaro – production coordination
• Tom Truslow – production coordination
• Brian Vibberts – mixing
• Todd Whitelock – audio engineer, engineer
• Mark Wilder – mastering
• Robert Zuckerman – session photographer
• Robert Zukerman – photography