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| Plays Rodgers & Hammerstein |
| Fred Hersch |
| első megjelenés éve: 1996 |
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| (1996)
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| 4.161 Ft
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| 1. | A Cock-Eyed Optimist
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| 2. | No Other Love
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| 3. | Loneliness of Evening
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| 4. | It Might as Well Be Spring
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| 5. | I Have Dreamed
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| 6. | People Will Say We're in Love
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| 7. | Do I Love You (Because You're Beautiful?)
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| 8. | Shall We Dance?
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| 9. | The Surrey with the Fringe on Top
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| 10. | This Nearly Was Mine
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| 11. | Getting to Know You
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Jazz
Recorded at Ambient Recording Company, Stamford, Connecticut in January 1996
Fred Hersch - solo piano
JazzTimes (3/97, p.82) - "...You can tell the wheels are always turning in his head as he moves through these pieces, deconstructing familiar melodies via intensely personal improvisations...his ability to separate what his left and right hands are doing is so amazing that at times you might think there are really two players at work here..."
Includes liner notes by Fred Hersch.
With his distinctive touch and instinct for finding fresh material, pianist Fred Hersch has emerged as an individual in a world of individualists. While he has traversed much of the standard repertoire, where his Evans-like clarity and subtle swing consistently reveal new aspects, and has dedicated albums to jazz luminaries such as Bill Evans and Billy Strayhorn, he has also looked to less obvious sources for inspiration. He has made albums featuring the music of French and Russian composers, and as an accompanist he has proved himself as engaging as he is a soloist.
On the surface an album dedicated to the music of Rodgers and Hammerstein may not seem particularly novel or risky, but a look at the choice of tunes already reveals a certain twist in the proceedings. Hersch tends the flock with a few chestnuts, including an inquisitive rendering of "Shall We Dance?," in which he slyly quotes the Carpenters' "Close to You," and an amazingly un-corny reading of "Getting to Know You." But some of the most revealing moments occur in lesser-known tunes such as "A Cock-Eyed Optimist" and "Loneliness of Evening," where Hersch reveals both technical grace and a gift for interpretation.
Grammy-nominated pianist and composer Fred Hersch follows his critically acclaimed Nonesuch debut, Passion Flower, with a solo piano album of Rodgers & Hammerstein music that includes twelve of the legendary songwriting duo's most inspired songs. The pianist interprets selections from Oklahoma, South Pacific, The King and I, State Fair, Me and Juliet, and Cinderella, including "No Other Love," "It Might As Well Be Spring," "I Have Dreamed," "People Say We're In Love," "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top," and others.
Hersch grew up with Rodgers & Hammerstein melodies, even before he discovered jazz, and they have been a constant part of his musical world. "From hearing original cast albums on our family's Philco to playing yellowed sheet music on my grandmother's piano to accompanying the fifth-grade choir in selections from The Sound of Music, I have always been drawn to the rich harmonies and timeless melodies of these songs and the way that they express universal sentiments so beautifully," he says.
A familiar face at major jazz venues and festivals in the United States, Europe, South America and Japan, Hersch has been equally at home in the recording studio, having released 14 albums as a leader and participating in more than 70 other recording projects as a featured soloist, sideman, arranger or producer. After nearly twenty years of being universally regarded as a "musician's musician" ("one of the small handful of brilliant musicians of his generation," says Down Beat), he is finally emerging to a wider audience. Hersch has received two recent Grammy nominations, one in 1993 for his trio album of interpretations of jazz standards, Dancing in the Dark, and one last year for his second solo effort, I Never Told You: Fred Hersch Plays Johnny Mandel. He has collaborated with numerous jazz instrumentalists, including Joe Henderson, Stan Getz, Jane Ira Bloom, Art Farmer, Charlie Haden and Eddie Daniels, for whom he produced and arranged To Bird With Love, resulting in a double Grammy nomination.
Passion Flower, a tribute album to composer Billy Strayhorn which Hersch produced, arranged and orchestrated, received universal critical praise. "Elegantly arranged for jazz trio and strings, (it) exudes an exotic hothouse aroma," said The New York Times of the recording. Jazziz said, "The results are stunning in their understated wealth and wry, bittersweet wit, as were the originals." The Cincinnati Inquirer added, "Like Mr. Strayhorn's compositions, Mr. Hersch's execution transcends jazz. This is simply beautiful music." |
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