Mayfield Promotions

An Evening of Gershwin: The Swinging 30s

Jack Gibbons’ 38th annual Oxford Summer Piano Series

Tickets £23 (Any tickets remaining on the night will be sold on the door of the venue - £30 per ticket)

The artist sitting at a piano, facing the camera, with a title treatment on the right hand side listing the composers featured in the series

GERSHWIN (arranged Gibbons) Rhapsody in Blue
GERSHWIN (arranged Gibbons) Variations on I Got Rhythm
GERSHWIN (arranged Gibbons) Strike Up The Band Overture
GERSHWIN (arranged Gibbons) Introduction & Summertime from Porgy & Bess
GERSHWIN (arranged Gibbons) Of Thee I Sing Overture
GERSHWIN (arranged Gibbons) Three-quarter Blues
GERSHWIN (arranged Gibbons) Embraceable You
GERSHWIN (arranged Gibbons) Isn’t It Pity
GERSHWIN (arranged Gibbons) My Cousin in Milwaukee
GERSHWIN (arranged Gibbons) Somebody from Somewhere
GERSHWIN (arranged Gibbons) They Can’t Take That Away From Me
GERSHWIN (arranged Gibbons) Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off
GERSHWIN (arranged Gibbons) Our Love Is Here To Stay

Hailed by Classic FM as “one of the world’s greatest Gershwin exponents”, JACK GIBBONS has built an enviable reputation for his interpretations of the music of GERSHWIN through his performances and award-winning “authentic Gershwin” recordings. In the second of his two all-Gershwin concerts at this years’ Summer Piano Series Gibbons plays Gershwin’s captivating songs and concerts works from the 1930s including music from Porgy and Bess, the dazzling Variations on I Got Rhythm, plus a reprise of Gershwin’s iconic Rhapsody in Blue, all music meticulously reconstructed by Gibbons from Gershwin’s own recordings and radio broadcasts.

Wheelchair Spaces

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Gibbons incarnates an uncanny representation of Gershwin's piano style that hasn't been heard since the glory days of Oscar Levant.

Village Voice, New York

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This is music that requires verve, nerve, and Gibbons' enviable capacity to generate party atmosphere

Yorkshire Post


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