Name: I Got Rhythm by Shervin Sharveh
Duration: 5 min 13 s
Description: The Unbounded Sound of Me is a collection of the most popular jazz standards and songs translated into Persian by Iranian jazz musician Shervin Sharveh. In this project you will experience some unique unprecedented musical interpretations to these songs often fused with Middle-Eastern rhythms, melodies and muqams. Enjoy!

The Unbounded Sound of Me is a collection of the most popular jazz standards and songs translated into Persian by Iranian jazz musician Shervin Sharveh. In this project you will experience some unique unprecedented musical interpretations to these songs often fused with Middle-Eastern rhythms, melodies and muqams. Enjoy!

The Unbounded Sound of Me Vol. I

I Got Rhythm

Shervin Sharveh is an Iranian musician with early classical music education which led to building a repertoire of his original compositions with a great tendency to jazz. But soon after a few years of original music-making he started to better know jazz as an art form and an attitude.
Perceiving jazz as a message of hope for peace and liberty and an encouragement for human beings to dream, he has translated the lyrics to more than 100 of the most famous jazz standards and songs into Persian; so that masterpieces by Gershwin, Ellington, Monk and others can unprecedentedly be song and listened to by millions of Persian-speakers all around the world.
Under the name of “The Unbounded Sound of Me - A Collection of Jazz Songs in Persian”, he has produced the first two albums of this project all on his own in a home studio in Mashhad/Iran.
Musically, his work on this project has been a combination of conventional jazz styles and techniques along with Iranian traditional rhythms, melodies and maqams in which he has had many years of vocal and instrumental practice. His main objective as he describes has been “to create unique renditions of the songs and always improvise spontaneously even in the recording process!”.
Yet, above all that goes on instrumentally, what could expectedly matter the most in such a project, must have been to best convey the enlightening meanings of the lyrics by choosing the most proper words to better fit in the host culture and the target language (Persian) in a way that they can still be sung along with the original melodies!
It obviously has been challenging! But it definitely was worth it. Because jazz has now taken wings to fly above Persian-speakers all around the world and encourage them to be free, hopeful and fearless as is jazz.