Fred Hersch -Breath By Breath -Palmetto Records CD Grooves.land/Playthek

Details / Tracklist:

01. "Begin Again"

02. "Awakened Heart"

03. "Breath By Breath"

04. "Monkey Mind"

05. "Rising, Falling"

06. "Mara"

07. "Know That You Are"

08. "Worldly Winds"

09. "Pastorale"

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Breath By Breath is an album by Fred Hersch, released in 2022. "Hersch is so consistently superb that it may be dull to repeat his strengths as a creative musician, but here they are again: he is flexibly inventive, lyrical in his construction of improvised melodies, and in full command of his facility as a pianist. A performance that shows dramatic rhythmic and expressive freedom. Astonishing invention." - Will Layman, Spectrum Culture â??Fred at the piano is like LeBron James on the basketball court. Heâ??s perfection.â? - Jason Moran The jazz album is available in the following configurations: - CD - LP -

Iconic pianist/composer Fred Hersch was an early adopter of new technologies and new ways forward when the pandemic hit in early 2020. But he's also been among the most eager to return to live performance and collaboration now that life has begun to resume some semblance of normality. In August he returned to the studio to record one of his most ambitious projects to date: Breath By Breath, his first album ever pairing jazz rhythm section with string quartet. Breath By Breath draws inspiration from the pianist's longtime practice of mindfulness meditation, centered on the new eight-movement "Sati Suite." But while the album is certainly contemplative and lustrous, it's far from being merely an ambient backdrop for blissful relaxation - the music on Breath By Breath is as fully engaged and emotionally rich as any that Hersch has made over the course of his remarkable career.

Recorded at the Samurai Hotel, Astoria, New York, August 24-25, 2021.

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Manufacturer No.:

24121

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