by MusD
This all-instrumental album, A Tribute to Gershwin and Friends, is really a tribute to a less competitive and less intense era of music. The songs on this album represent popular classics in a time when music expressed a mood of simplicity over complexity. Besides Gershwin and such classics as "Summertime" and "Our Love is Here to Stay," Harrison includes his renditions of music by Billie Holiday, David Raksin and Johnny Mercer, Cole Porter and Richard Rodgers. Harrison also includes two original songs written and performed in the musical tradition of the Gershwin era. Harrison plays keyboards with great emotions and is joined by acoustic and fretless bass, and acoustic and electric guitar.