Fred Hersch

SACD MULTICHANNEL HYBRID DISC

4 STARS ALL MUSIC GUIDE

This compilation of celebrated pianist Fred Hersch's best-loved recordings for Chesky culls material from three discs-1991's Forward Motion, 1993's Dancing in the Dark and 1994's The Fred Hersch Trio Plays . . . The New Yorker has called Hersch "...a poet of a pianist" and Downbeat has cited him as "...one of the small handful of brilliant musicians of his generation."


PERSONNEL:

FRED HERSCH, piano
RICH PERRY, tenor sax on tracks 4, 7-8 & 10
DREW GRESS, bass on tracks 1-3, 5-6, 9 & 11
SCOTT COLLEY, bas on tracks 4, 7-8 & 10
ERIC FRIEDLANDER, ceelo on tracks 4, 7-8 & 10
TON RAINEY, drums

TRACKS:

01. Secret Love
02. Played Twice
03. For All We Know
04. Child's Song
05. Evanessence
06. I Fall In Love Too Easily
07. Professor K.
08. Forward Motion
09. Iris
10. Nostalgia
11. Out Of Nowhere
12. If I Should Lose You