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Enrico Rava - Fred Hersch

The Song Is You

ECM
Release Date: September 9, 2022

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1 Retrato em Banco e Preto  
2 Improvisation  
3 I'm Getting Sentimental Over You  
4 The Song Is You  
5 Child's Song  
6 The Trial  
7 Misterioso  
8 Round Midnight  
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The Song Is You documents the inspired meeting of two master improvisers. Italian trumpeter and flugelhornist Enrico Rava and US pianist Fred Hersch share a love of the music’s history and together explore standards including 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 create music freely together. It’s a subtle and far reaching performance: when jazz reaches this level of understanding and interplay, a performance becomes less about the material – however distinguished it may be - than what the interpreter brings to it. Rava and Hersch bring vast experience and a finely honed sense of jazz improvisation as a storyteller’s art.

  • ENRICO RAVA & FRED HERSCH - THE SONG IS YOU makes 'Jazz History Online's 2022 BEST OF THE REST: INSTRUMENTAL'
    Posted At: December 31, 2022
    The Song Is You documents the inspired meeting of two master improvisers. Italian trumpeter and flugelhornist Enrico Rava and US pianist Fred Hersch share a love of the music’s history and together explore standards including 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”. The...

  • Enrico Rava and Fred Hersch find their own spaces on 'The Song Is You' / jazztrail
    Posted At: September 14, 2022
    The Song Is You documents the inspired meeting of two master improvisers. Italian trumpeter and flugelhornist Enrico Rava and US pianist Fred Hersch share a love of the music’s history and together explore standards including 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”. The...

  • Enrico Rava and Fred Hersch sound...... is indelible on new ECM recording: 'The Song Is You' / the arts fuse
    Posted At: August 29, 2022
    The sound of both musicians is indelible: trumpeter Enrico Rava is warm and rounded; pianist Fred Hersch, often icy, is fetching and detailed. Enrico Rava and Fred Hersch, The Song Is You (ECM)the arts fuse - Michael Ulman writes…..Recorded in Lugano in November, 2021, The Song is You begins on a melancholy note, with a pristine bell-like introduction by pianist Fred Hersch, who seems to do everything well,...
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