Six-disc set includes five critically acclaimed Palmetto Records releases featuring Hersch, bassist John H bert and drummer Eric McPherson a band named Best Jazz Group in the 2019 DownBeat Critics Poll.One of the most influential improvising musicians currently performing a “living legend,” per the New Yorker the pianist and composer Fred Hersch has made groundbreaking contributions in a staggering range of creative formats.

• - 1 -

  • 1. You & the Night & the Music
  • 2. Floating
  • 3. West Virginia Rose (For Florette & Roslyn)
  • 4. Home Fries (For John Hibert)
  • 5. Far Away (For Shimrit)
  • 6. Arcata (For Esperanza)
  • 7. A Speech To the Sea (For Maaria)
  • 8. Autumn Haze (For Kevin Hays)
  • 9. If Ever I Would Leave You
  • 10. Let's Cool One

• - 2 -

  • 1. Havana
  • 2. Tristesse (For Paul Motian)
  • 3. Segment
  • 4. Lonely Woman
  • 5. Nardis
  • 6. Dream of Monk
  • 7. Rising, Falling
  • 8. Softly As In a Morning Sunrise
  • 9. Doxy

• - 3 -

  • 1. Opener (For Emac)
  • 2. I Fall In Love Too Easily
  • 3. Jackalope
  • 4. The Wind
  • 5. Moon and Sand
  • 6. Sartorial (For Ornette)
  • 7. From This Moment On
  • 8. The Song is You
  • 9. Played Twice

• - 4 -

  • 1. We See
  • 2. Snape Maltings
  • 3. Scuttlers
  • 4. Skipping
  • 5. Bristol Fog (For John Taylor)
  • 6. Newklypso (For Sonny Rollins)
  • 7. The Big Easy (For Tom Piazza)
  • 8. Miyako
  • 9. Black Nile
  • 10. Blue Monk (Solo Encore)

• - 5 -

  • 1. You're My Everything
  • 2. Snow is Falling...
  • 3. Blue Midnight
  • 4. Skipping
  • 5. Mandevilla
  • 6. Whirl
  • 7. Sad Poet
  • 8. Mrs. Parker of K.C.
  • 9. Still Here

• - 6 -

  • 1. A Cockeyed Optimist
  • 2. Serpentine
  • 3. The Optimum Thing
  • 4. Calligram
  • 5. Blackwing Palomino
  • 6. For No One
  • 7. Everybody's Song But My Own
  • 8. The Peacocks
  • 9. We See
  • 10. Solo Encore: Valentine