The Song Is You
Enrico Rava (flugelhorn), Fred Hersch (piano)
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, October 2022
In 2021 [Rava] played some concerts with Fred Hersch and the result is another fine partnership which led to more concerts earlier this year, with a further crop due in Europe during the late...
The Song Is You
Enrico Rava (flugelhorn), Fred Hersch (piano)
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Awards:
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, October 2022
In 2021 [Rava] played some concerts with Fred Hersch and the result is another fine partnership which led to more concerts earlier this year, with a further crop due in Europe during the late...
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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
Contents and tracklist
- Enrico Rava (flugelhorn), Fred Hersch (piano)
- Recorded: 2021-11-15
- Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano
- Enrico Rava (flugelhorn), Fred Hersch (piano)
- Recorded: 2021-11-15
- Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano
- Enrico Rava (flugelhorn), Fred Hersch (piano)
- Recorded: 2021-11-15
- Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano
- Enrico Rava (flugelhorn), Fred Hersch (piano)
- Recorded: 2021-11-15
- Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano
- Enrico Rava (flugelhorn), Fred Hersch (piano)
- Recorded: 2021-11-15
- Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano
- Enrico Rava (flugelhorn), Fred Hersch (piano)
- Recorded: 2021-11-15
- Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano
- Enrico Rava (flugelhorn), Fred Hersch (piano)
- Recorded: 2021-11-15
- Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano
- Enrico Rava (flugelhorn), Fred Hersch (piano)
- Recorded: 2021-11-15
- Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano
Awards and reviews
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JazzwiseEditor's ChoiceOctober 2022
October 2022
In 2021 [Rava] played some concerts with Fred Hersch and the result is another fine partnership which led to more concerts earlier this year, with a further crop due in Europe during the late autumn. However, their 2021 collaboration was captured for posterity by ECM, and the album they have created plays brilliantly to the strengths of both musicians.
December 2022
These are ideal duo partners, not because they have a lifetime of experience in common, congruent resumes and shared credits, nor because they take a blandly conversational approach to the music (one of the dullest of all premises for improvisation), but because they are content to work seemingly parallel paths and see where they converge. There are few things more exciting and satisfying in jazz than that.
