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Jerome Kern
Jerome David Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music. One of the most important American theatre composers of the early 20th century, he wrote more than 700 songs, used in over 100 stage works, including such classics as "Ol' Man River", "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man", "A Fine Romance", "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes", "The Song Is You", "All the Things You Are", "The Way You Look Tonight" and "Long Ago". He collaborated with many of the leading librettists and lyricists of his era, including George Grossmith Jr., Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin and Yip Harburg. A native New Yorker, Kern created dozens of Broadway musicals and Hollywood films in a career that lasted for more than four decades. His musical innovations, such as 4/4 dance rhythms and the employment of syncopation and jazz progressions, built on, rather than rejected, earlier musical theatre tradition. He and his collaborators also employed his melodies to further the action or develop characterization to a greater extent than in the other musicals of his day, creating the model for later musicals. From Wikipedia (

Songs

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All The Things You Are
Paul Desmond
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This Is The Army, Mr. Jones
Chorus
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Ol' Man River
MGM Studio Orchestra & Jerome Kern
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Sunny / Who?
Judy Garland
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Cheek To Cheek
Irving Berlin

Albums

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Melodic Greats

2014
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Life Upon the Wicked Stage

2002
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Biographies: Jerome Kern the Man and the Music

2010
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Show Boat (1994 World Premiere Cast Recording)

1994
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Show Boat (1993 Studio Cast Recording) (1946 Version)

2006
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The Musicality of Kern

2002

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Paul Robeson - Ol' Man River (Showboat - 1936) J.Kern O. Hammerstein II

222pj222 • 7.6M views
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Yesterdays, by Jerome Kern & Otto Harbach/arr. Bill Holman from Lab 2011 by the One O'Clock Lab Band

North Texas Jazz • 198K views
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Peter Bernstein & the Lori Mechem Trio - " Nobody Else But Me" - Live at the Nashville Jazz Workshop

Nashvillejazz • 166K views
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Tommy Dorsey & his Orchestra - All the Things You Are (1939)

tmmvds • 86K views
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Jacob Collier - I've Told Every Little Star (Transcription)

June Lee • 55K views
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you are love by kern hammerstein

statesrit76 • 565 views
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smokeyes

T • 1.2K views
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Frank Sinatra "The Song is You"

catman916 • 164K views
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Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man

MrBitchen • 966 views