Release Date: 25 November 2022
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 602445343973
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
Their collaboration has been hailed as a summit meeting of two jazz masters - Enrico Rava, trumpeter from Trieste, and Fred Hersch, pianist from Cincinatti, share a deep affection for the tradition and a profound sense for melodic invention.
In this recording, with flugelhorn and piano glowing in the superb acoustic of the Lugano studio, Rava and Hersch explore some much-loved standards: Jerome Kern's "The Song Is You", Thelonious Monk's "Mysterioso" and "'Round Midnight", Jobim's "Retrato em Branco e Preto", and George Bassman's "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You". They also play their own tunes, Fred's "Child's Song" and Enrico's "The Trial", and improvise freely together.
Enrico Rava has been an ECM artist for almost fifty years. The Song Is You is Fred Hersch's first for the label. The album was recorded at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI in November 2021, and produced by Manfred Eicher.
Enrico Rava: flugelhorn
Fred Hersch: piano
Press:
"A set of standards that are playfully nudged in different directions plus some original and improvised material, all presented with both delicacy and conviction." - ***** BBC Music Magazine
"A quietly sensational album." - **** All About Jazz
"It's a beautifully balanced, palpably empathetic partnership." - **** The Scotsman
"Because there is a lot of vivid poetry to this album certainly The Song Is You counts as one of the best of '22 so far...What joy. What enlightenment." - **** Marlbank
"Gorgeous is the obvious adjective for the whole session...It's a musical meeting of minds that deserved to be captured on record, nowhere more so than on Hersch's own Child's Song...a tune that sounds beautiful played unadorned, but with judicious elaboration becomes truly exquisite." - LondonJazz News
Tracklisting
Steve Swallow; Michael Rodriguez;Chris Cheek; Steve Cardenas; Gil Goldstein; Adam Nussbaum
Ensemble Modern Orchestra; Rob Rutman; Peter Eotvos
Joe Lovano; Julian Lage; Asante Santi Debriano; Will Calhoun
Tomasz Stanko; Tomasz Szukalski; Dave Holland; Edward Vesala
Bill Connors; Jan Garbarek; Gary Peacock; Jack DeJohnette
Mick Goodrick; Fred Hersch
Judith Berkson; Trevor Dunn; Gerald Cleaver
Elina Duni; Rob Luft
Alternative Guitar Summit
Mathias Heise & Pelle von Bulow
Nicholas Payton + Butcher Brown
Callum Au
Deirdre Cartwright's ORGANIK
Alessio Menconi & Nigel Price
Trish Clowes
Zoe Rahman
