Fascinating Rhythm

Fred Astaire & Adele Astaire (George Gershwin, piano) · 1926

Context

Song by George and Ira Gershwin created by Fred and Adele Astaire and Cliff Edwards in the musical Lady, Be Good! (1924). The brother and sister recorded it in London on April 19, 1926 with George Gershwin on piano (Columbia); this recording is inscribed in the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Symphonic jazz, dance orchestras, Vocal jazz, scat, vocalese. Among the origins and influences of Symphonic jazz, dance orchestras: Harlem: Henderson, Redman, Ellington, Dixieland (ODJB, 1917), Third stream.

By the same artist

• Night and Day (1932)

Sources

• EN: Fascinating Rhythm

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