On Mar 29, 2006, at 12:52 PM, Chuck Israels wrote:
most published ones are abominable when compared with the most rudimentary realization by a competent jazz musician.
You are certainly right about this, but three exceptions come to mind: Gershwin's original piano arrangements for his songs, most of which are more-or-less intact in the modern published versions, those of Jerome Kern, who had an exceptional harmonic sense, and those of Irving Berlin (this last one's arrangements are pretty good because he had hired an arranger to help him compose his songs.)
Actually, now that I think about it, I have a few old (pre-60's) song books, and most of the arrangements are far superior to what we get nowadays. There doesn't seem to be much thought or effort put into piano-vocal arrangements since about 1960 or so.
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