Fred Hersch - Begin AgainPianist Fred Hersch, who needs no introduction to most well informed jazz enthusiasts, is by and large known as a leader of trios and other small groups. Begin Again displays another side of Hersch's appreciable talents: nine of his handsome compositions, astutely recast by six time Grammy Award winner Vince Mendoza and impressively performed by Germany's superb WDR Big Band.

in four movements for the first time

beatniks and poets

Now a vicious

featuring strings

allied with passion and tenderness combine

the 'Club Mix' and the 'Underground Dub' were remixed by Judge Jules and there is an appearance by celebrated percussionist Pandit Dinesh on the album track 'Then'

then the urge to kill some time (they like it better dead) and to make some kind of noises made them start a band

The pianist Sandro Baldi presents these seminal piano works of Debussy and the release includes two different periods in Debussy's development

he presents Die schöne Magelone by Johannes Brahms

difficult' is how Szymanowski described the set to his publisher

Only Child

Cahan attests that "it was a real band with every intention of getting a record deal