Compact disc ; analog recordings, digitally remastered. Material previously released on Decca records. Notes by Leonard Burkart ([5] p. : ports.) in container. On container: Gershwin, Foster, Weill. Jascha Heifetz, violin ; Emanuel Bay, Milton Kaye, piano ; Bing Crosby, vocals (last two selections). Originally recorded 1944-1946.
Contents:
Three preludes / Gershwin -- Old folks at home / Foster ; arr. Heifetz -- From the Canebrake / Gardner -- Hexapoda: Five studies in jitteroptera / Bennett -- Jeannie with the light brown hair / Foster ; arr. Heifetz -- Summertime ; A woman is a sometime thing ; My man's gone now ; It ain't necessarily so ; Tempo di blues ; Bess, you is my woman now (Porgy and Bess) / Gershwin ; arr. Heifetz -- A la valse / Herbert -- Jamaican rumba / Benjamin ; arr. Heifetz, from Primrose -- Florida night song (An outlandish suite) / Dyer --Deep river / trad. ; arr. Heifetz -- Levee dance / White -- Gweedore brae / trad. Irish melody ; arr. Crowther -- Moderato assai / Weill ; arr. Frankel -- White Christmas / Berlin -- Lullaby (Jocelyn) / Goddard --Where my caravan has rested / Lohr.
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