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Number : ECM 2836 ▓███ ███▓ Street Date : 2025-07-06 ▓███ ███▓ Rip Date : 2025-09-14 ▓███ ███▓ Encoder : LAME 64bits version 3.100 (http://lame.sf.net) -V0 ▓███ ███▓ Quality : 246kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo ▓███ ███▓ Tracks : 7 ▓███ ███▓ Playtime : 00:41:29 (76.5MB) ▓███ ███▓ URL : http://ecmrecords.com/product/the-surrounding-green-fr ▓███ ███▓ ▓███ ███▓█▄▄ ▄▄█▓███ ███████▓███▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄███▓███████ ██▀▀▀▀███▓████ ▄▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄ ▀ ▄▄▄ ▀ ▄▄▄▄ ▄ ▄ ▄ ███ ▄ ▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄▄ █████▓███▀▀▀▀██ █ ▓▓▓▓ ███████▄▄ █ ▄ █ █ █ █ █ ▄▄▄ █▄▀ █ ███ █ ▀▄▄▄ ▄ █ ▄▄████████ ▓▓▓▓ █ █ ▓▓▓▓ █████████ █ █ █ ▀▀▄ █▀▀▀█ ▀▄▄▄▄ █ ▀▄ █▄▄▄▄ █ ▄▄▄▄▀ █ █ ██████████ ▓▓▓▓ █ ██▄▄▄▄███▓██████▄▄▄█▄▄▄█▄▄▄▄▄█▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄██▄▄▄███████▓███▄▄▄▄██ ████████▀▀▀ ▀▀▀████████ ███▓▀ ▀▓███ ███▓ ▓███ ███▓ ▓███ ███▓ ▓███ ███▓ 01 Plainsong (Fred Hersch) 5:50 ▓███ ███▓ 02 Law Years (Ornette Coleman) 4:14 ▓███ ███▓ 03 The Surrounding Green (Fred Hersch) 5:40 ▓███ ███▓ 04 Palhaτo (Egberto Gismonti) 5:32 ▓███ ███▓ 05 Embraceable You (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) 6:32 ▓███ ███▓ 06 First Song (Charlie Haden, Abbey Lincoln) 7:27 ▓███ ███▓ 07 Anticipation (Fred Hersch) 6:14 ▓███ ███▓ ▓███ ███▓ ▓███ ███▓ ▓███ ███▓ 41:29 min ▓███ ███▓ ▓███ ███▓█▄▄ ▄▄█▓███ ███████▓███▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄███▓███████ ██▀▀▀▀███▓█████ ▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄▄ ▄ █████████████ ▄ ▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄ ▀█████▓███▀▀▀▀██ █ ▓▓▓▓ ████████ █ █ █▄▄ ▄ █ █████ ▄▄▄▄▄ █ █ █ ▄ █ █ █ ▄ █ ████████ ▓▓▓▓ █ █ ▓▓▓▓ ████████ █ ▀▀▄ █▄▄▄▄ █▄▄▄▄ █▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█ █ █ █ █ █▀▀▀ ▀▄▄▄▀ ████████ ▓▓▓▓ █ ██▄▄▄▄███▓█████▄▄▄█▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█████████▄▄▄▄▄█▄▄▄▄▄████▄▄▄▄▄██████▓███▄▄▄▄██ ████████▀▀▀ ▀▀▀████████ ███▓▀ ▀▓███ ███▓ ▓███ ███▓ A member of jazzÆs piano pantheon, Fred Hersch has been an ▓███ ███▓ influential creative force over more than three decades as an ▓███ ███▓ improviser, composer, educator, bandleader, collaborator, and ▓███ ███▓ recording artist. He has been proclaimed ôthe most arrestingly ▓███ ███▓ innovative pianist in jazz over the last decadeö by Vanity Fair and ▓███ ███▓ ôa living legendö by The New Yorker. A seventeen-time Grammy ▓███ ███▓ nominee, Hersch has garnered jazzÆs most prestigious awards, ▓███ ███▓ including a Doris Duke Artist (2016), Jazz Pianist of the Year from ▓███ ███▓ the Jazz Journalists Association (2011, 2016, 2018), and the Jazz ▓███ ███▓ Magazine (France) International Artist of the Year (2021). The Fred ▓███ ███▓ Hersch Trio was voted the #1 Jazz Group in the 2019 DownBeat ▓███ ███▓ Critics Poll. ▓███ ███▓ An acclaimed and influential solo pianist, he has twelve solo ▓███ ███▓ recordings in his catalog including the 2024 release, Silent, ▓███ ███▓ Listening which is a collaboration with legendary producer Manfred ▓███ ███▓ Eicher for the ECM label. All About Jazz has remarked that ôwhen it ▓███ ███▓ comes to the art of solo piano in jazz, there are two classes of ▓███ ███▓ performers: Fred Hersch and everybody elseö and The New York Times ▓███ ███▓ simply calls him ôa master who plays it his wayö. ▓███ ███▓ Through more than twelve albums, the Fred Hersch Triohas remained ▓███ ███▓ at the pinnacle of modern jazz, venerated as the epitome of ▓███ ███▓ thrilling interplay and dynamic spontaneity. The Wall Street ▓███ ███▓ Journal calls the trio ôone of the major ensembles of our time,ö ▓███ ███▓ while The New Yorker has applauded it for playing with ôhigh ▓███ ███▓ lyricism and high danger.ö They were named the #1 Jazz Group of the ▓███ ███▓ Year by DownBeat magazine. and appeared at major jazz festivals ▓███ ███▓ throughout Europe and the US and have regularly headlined at the ▓███ ███▓ legendary Village Vanguard since 1997. His next trio album for ECM ▓███ ███▓ Records, The Surrounding Green with Drew Gress and Joey Baron, will ▓███ ███▓ be released in June of 2025. ▓███ ███▓ Hersch has more than sixty albums to his credit as leader or ▓███ ███▓ co-leader. His 2022 Breath By Breath features him playing his own ▓███ ███▓ compositions inspired by his insight meditation practice with his ▓███ ███▓ trio and with the Crosby Street String Quartet. A 2022 duo project ▓███ ███▓ with Italian trumpet maestro Enrico Rava, The Song Is You (ECM), ▓███ ███▓ was followed by the 2023 release of Alive at the Village Vanguard, ▓███ ███▓ a duo with dazzling jazz vocalist esperanza spalding that was named ▓███ ███▓ a 2023 Top Ten Jazz Album by DownBeat and was nominated for two ▓███ ███▓ 2024 Grammy Awards. His last album with his long-standing trio, ▓███ ███▓ 2018Æs Live in Europe (Palmetto), documents one remarkable evening ▓███ ███▓ in Brussels and has been hailed as its best to date. ▓███ ███▓ An exceptionally responsive and intuitive collaborator, Hersch has ▓███ ███▓ engaged in duo partnerships with a number of spirited artists, ▓███ ███▓ including clarinetist Anat Cohen; guitarists Bill Frisell, Gilad ▓███ ███▓ Hekselman and Julian Lage; saxophonists Chris Potter, Joe Lovano ▓███ ███▓ and Miguel Zenon; trumpeters Avishai Cohen and Enrico Rava; and ▓███ ███▓ vocalists Kurt Elling, esperanza spalding, Kate McGarry, Audra ▓███ ███▓ McDonald, CΘcile McLorin Salvant, and RenΘe Fleming. His many ▓███ ███▓ sideman credits include Joe Henderson, Art Farmer, Stan Getz, ▓███ ███▓ Charlie Haden, Toots Thielemans and other jazz legends. ▓███ ███▓ HerschÆs memoir, Good Things Happen Slowly (Crown Archetype), ▓███ ███▓ compellingly reveals the story of his life in music along with a ▓███ ███▓ frank recounting of his health struggles and triumphs as the first ▓███ ███▓ openly gay, HIV-positive jazz musician. The book was named one of ▓███ ███▓ 2017Æs Five Best Memoirs by the Washington Post and the New York ▓███ ███▓ Times, and acclaimed as 2018Æs Book on Jazz of the Year by the JJA. ▓███ ███▓ His story has also been told in a feature documentary by filmmakers ▓███ ███▓ Carrie Lozano and Charlotte Lagarde, The Ballad of Fred Hersch, ▓███ ███▓ which premiered to a sold-out house at the Full Frame Film Festival ▓███ ███▓ in 2016 and is now streaming. His acclaimed jazz/theater piece My ▓███ ███▓ Coma Dreams, created with librettist/director Herschel Garfein for ▓███ ███▓ actor/singer, eleven musicians and immersive video, premiered in ▓███ ███▓ 2011 and is also available online. ▓███ ███▓ While widely renowned for his playing, Hersch has earned similar ▓███ ███▓ distinction with his composing, garnering a Guggenheim Fellowship ▓███ ███▓ in composition, among other awards. His large-scale setting of Walt ▓███ ███▓ WhitmanÆs poetry for two voices and instrumental octet, Leaves of ▓███ ███▓ Grass, was selected to open the 2017 Jazz at Lincoln Center season ▓███ ███▓ at the Appel Room. He has received commissions from Roomful of ▓███ ███▓ Teeth, Igor Levit, the Lucerne Festival, the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, ▓███ ███▓ the Doris Duke Millennium Fund, and the Gilmore Keyboard Festival. ▓███ ███▓ He has been awarded ten composition residencies at MacDowell and ▓███ ███▓ one at Bellagio. ▓███ ███▓ HIV-positive for almost four decades, Hersch has been a passionate ▓███ ███▓ spokesman and fundraiser for AIDS services and education agencies. ▓███ ███▓ He has produced and performed on four benefit recordings and in ▓███ ███▓ numerous concerts for charities; to date, his efforts have raised ▓███ ███▓ more than $300,000. He has also been a keynote speaker and ▓███ ███▓ performer at international medical conferences in the U.S. and ▓███ ███▓ Europe. In 2020 he raised $50,000 for the Jazz Foundation of ▓███ ███▓ America with a live duo EP with vocalist esperanza spalding and ▓███ ███▓ Eight x 88, a streaming event featuring eight of New YorkÆs ▓███ ███▓ greatest jazz pianists in solo and duo formats. ▓███ ███▓ A committed educator, Hersch has taught at New England ▓███ ███▓ Conservatory, the Juilliard School, the New School, Rutgers ▓███ ███▓ University and the Manhattan School of Music and has given master ▓███ ███▓ classes around the world. HerschÆs influence has been widely felt ▓███ ███▓ on a new generation of jazz pianists, from former students Brad ▓███ ███▓ Mehldau, Sullivan Fortner, Dan Tepfer and Ethan Iverson to his ▓███ ███▓ friend and piano colleague Jason Moran, who has said, ôFred at the ▓███ ███▓ piano is like LeBron James on the basketball court. HeÆs ▓███ ███▓ perfection.ö ▓███ ███▓ ▓███ ███▓ Fred HerschÆs The Surrounding Green, on ECM records, is an ▓███ ███▓ expression in trio subtlety and musical conversation. Marking ▓███ ███▓ HerschÆs third ECM collaboration, this recording notably gathers ▓███ ███▓ his longstanding collaborators, bassist Drew Gress and drummer Joey ▓███ ███▓ Baron, in their inaugural studio recording as a trio, highlighting ▓███ ███▓ decades of collaborative live performance nuance. ▓███ ███▓ The album commences with HerschÆs original ôPlainsong,ö a perfect ▓███ ███▓ exposition of the trioÆs elasticity and collective intuition. ▓███ ███▓ HerschÆs solo introduction is multi-textured, his harmonic language ▓███ ███▓ rich and lyrical. When Gress and Baron join, the rhythm becomes ▓███ ███▓ fluid yet anchored, the trio moving freely within the elastic ▓███ ███▓ pulse. GressÆs bass adds a resonant depth, while BaronÆs intuitive ▓███ ███▓ drumming enhances the dynamic ebb and flow, making the song breathe ▓███ ███▓ naturally. ▓███ ███▓ ôLaw Years,ö Ornette ColemanÆs piece, receives an energized ▓███ ███▓ treatment opened by BaronÆs engaging rhythmic patterns. HerschÆs ▓███ ███▓ interpretation of the melody, characteristically clear but ▓███ ███▓ playfully disjunct, leads into the trioÆs progressive embrace of a ▓███ ███▓ swinging pulse. HerschÆs solo is vivid, melodically engaging, and ▓███ ███▓ dynamically conversational, deeply supported by GressÆs woody bass ▓███ ███▓ lines and BaronÆs snappy rhythmic commentary. ▓███ ███▓ The albumÆs title track, ôThe Surrounding Green,ö is a pastel-hued ▓███ ███▓ ballad infused with folk-jazz sensibilities. HerschÆs introduction ▓███ ███▓ sets an introspective tone that blossoms through the trioÆs ▓███ ███▓ thoughtful interplay. Gress and Baron sensitively track HerschÆs ▓███ ███▓ nuanced phrasing, exemplifying their mutual trust and refined ▓███ ███▓ sensitivity. This understated elegance speaks volumes about the ▓███ ███▓ trioÆs collective maturity. ▓███ ███▓ Egberto GismontiÆs ôPalhaτoö introduces a distinctive European jazz ▓███ ███▓ texture, characterized by harmonic introspection and more focus on ▓███ ███▓ elongated melodies. GressÆs richly sustained bass notes underpin ▓███ ███▓ HerschÆs explorative harmonic colors, as Baron creates a lush sonic ▓███ ███▓ landscape. The track features a lyrical bass solo from Gress, ▓███ ███▓ distinctly thematic and motive-driven, underlining his expressive ▓███ ███▓ melodic sensibility. ▓███ ███▓ ôEmbraceable You,ö the Gershwin classic, offers an illustrative ▓███ ███▓ showcase of how effortlessly the trio navigates standards. Baron ▓███ ███▓ initiates the piece with an articulate hi-hat and melodic drum ▓███ ███▓ pattern, setting the feel for HerschÆs elegant chordal ▓███ ███▓ interpretations. Gress maintains a relaxed two-feel as the piece ▓███ ███▓ evolves dynamically. The performance is driven by subtle increases ▓███ ███▓ in activity from all members, demonstrating the trioÆs skill in ▓███ ███▓ developing narratives within familiar jazz standard structures. ▓███ ███▓ The trioÆs interpretation of Charlie HadenÆs ôThe First Songö has ▓███ ███▓ GressÆs resonant bass introduction, warm and woody. The trio sets ▓███ ███▓ an introspective and lyrical tone. The interplay among them builds ▓███ ███▓ organically into a delicate folk-jazz expression, with HerschÆs ▓███ ███▓ nuanced, multi-textural pianism at its heart. ▓███ ███▓ Concluding the album with a rhythmic flourish, ôAnticipationö ▓███ ███▓ showcases HerschÆs flair for Latin jazz. BaronÆs expert brushwork ▓███ ███▓ sets an infectious groove, which Hersch complements through ▓███ ███▓ skillful interplay between chordal and linear improvisational ▓███ ███▓ approaches. The result is an elegantly buoyant finale, aptly ▓███ ███▓ capturing the albumÆs spirited essence. ▓███ ███▓ Recorded under Manfred EicherÆs supervision at LuganoÆs Auditorio ▓███ ███▓ Stelio Molo RSI, the production quality of The Surrounding Green ▓███ ███▓ complements the trioÆs refined aesthetics. This album stands as a ▓███ ███▓ fine addition to Fred HerschÆs discography. 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