Earl music

                                                             Earl Wild music

     Earl Wild made 26 piano music like Jasbo Brown Blues and I loves you, Porgy/Bess, you is my woman now.Wild first piano music was Jasbo Brown Blues.Earl Wild was always a spiritual neighbor of George Gershwin; he played in one of the early standard recordings of Rhapsody in Blue, with the Boston Pops and Arthur Fiedler. But, especially now that Rhapsody recordings like last year’s dazzling Lincoln Mayorga account abound, Wild’s main legacy to the Gershwin tradition might be his series of compositions based on the older man’s hits: Grand Fantasy on ‘Porgy and Bess’, Seven Virtuoso Etudes (all after songs from the Gershwin musicals), and theImprovisation on ‘Someone to Watch Over Me.’ All are presented here, along with an even more recent work, 2000’s piano sonata - which is not based on Gershwin at all.