Summer Time - OSAKA 2006
Tommy Emmanuel and Masa Sumide is here playing the song Summer Time
together in Osaka, Japan. The song Summer Time is a Jazz instrumental.
Masa Sumide is here playing a Albert & Müeller S-3 acoustic guitar.
And Tommy Emmanuel is playing on one of his many Maton guitars. They
play the song Summertime beautifuly together. And if you like Jazz /
Blues songs, then you will like this one.
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Some facts on the song Summertime:
"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.
The song soon became a popular and much recorded jazz standard, described as "without doubt... one of the finest songs the composer ever wrote....Gershwin's highly evocative writing brilliantly mixes elements of jazz and the song styles of African-Americans in the southeast United States from the early twentieth century. Heyward's lyrics for "Summertime" and "My Man's Gone Now" have been called "the best lyrics in the musical theater" by composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.
There are some 24,400 different recorded versions of the song. In September 1936, a recording by Billie Holiday was the first to hit the national pop charts, reaching # 12. Other notable recordings include those by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald in 1957, Gene Vincent in 1958, Sam Cooke and The Marcels in 1961, and Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company on the 1968 album Cheap Thrills.
There are some 24,400 different recorded versions of the song. In September 1936, a recording by Billie Holiday was the first to hit the national pop charts, reaching # 12. Other notable recordings include those by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald in 1957, Gene Vincent in 1958, Sam Cooke and The Marcels in 1961, and Janis Joplin with Big Brother and the Holding Company on the 1968 album Cheap Thrills.
The most commercially successful version was by Billy Stewart, who reached # 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966. In 1998, Morcheeba and Hubert Laws recorded the song for the Red Hot Organization's compilation album Red Hot + Rhapsody, a tribute to George Gershwin, which raised money for various charities devoted to increasing AIDS awareness and fighting the disease.
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