JoshMc

I always call his songs, meaning all the Broadway stuff, jazz and his concert works, like Rhapsody in Blue and American in Paris, classical. I don't really see why a diehard jazz person wouldn't call the bulk of his music jazz. I mean, he even wrote rags, how can that ever be conceived as something that's not real jazz? I have to admit though, I will never understand why Porgy and Bess is considered an opera and not a musical.

I guess either way the best way to look at his music would be as music. It doesn't really matter what you call it as long as you like it, right?