FRED HERSCH

American pianist Fred Hersch celebrates his latest ECM Records solo piano album "Silent, Listening" which is both a highly individual musical offering and an important contribution to ECM’s line of innovative solo piano recordings. It finds Fred Hersch, one of jazz’s most outstanding soloists, putting a poetic emphasis on alert, open improvisation while also embracing original compositions and a scattering of standard tunes in his album’s graceful creative arc. Interspersing songs and spontaneously composed pieces, Hersch shapes and sustains a musical atmosphere that he describes as “nocturnal,” an atmosphere of heightened sensitivity to sound.