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ok wow! To EldKatt - Ignorance isn't something I'm afraid to admit - I wouldn't post in here if I didn't know what I was talking about. But you are misinterpreting what my posts are saying. I was never saying Gershwin's music wasn't some form of 'jazz' (which depends on your PERSONAL definitions, because jazz is not a clearly labeled thing, like say common practice tonality or serialism), I was merely offering a redefinition of the kind of jazz we were talking, and asserting that a more common term (in my experience) for the type of 'jazz' Gershwin embodied was indeed NOT the Miles Davis and Coltrane jazz, but the musical theater, Jerome Kern, Americana jazz of the time. I saw people's posts as extremely general and sometimes lopsided, so I decided to offer a clarification.
And also, I'm a bad writer and tend not to be clear, so I apologize!
p.s. I agree most with Zetetic! Gershwin's music is not easily categorized, which was the whole cause for my initial post.
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In Progress:
1. Drift, for orchestra
2. Chamber Symphony, for 16 players
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