Loose Cuts
Mirror Image
- Composers
- Satie; Schubert; Ravel; Gottschalk
- Released
- 2019
- Label
- Justin Time
- Forces
- piano; solo
After arranging Bach and Chopin for jazz trio, Herskowitz chose solo piano for Mirror Image, wanting to hear his classical and jazz backgrounds in something more exposed and personal. These three cuts range from a blue-tinged meeting of Satie and Schubert to an eleven-minute expansion of Ravel’s Adagio. In The Last Hope, a melody he had already heard as gospel turned out to have circulated as the hymn “Mercy” in 272 hymnals; his arrangement lets Gottschalk’s Romantic filigree grow into what he calls a “full-on Gospel service climax” before settling back.
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The classical side carries the source works these cuts came from. The jazz side carries the cuts themselves. Each player holds what is available, and they need not match.
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The cuts
The classical-derived cuts from this record, each with the classical work it came from.
- Gnossienne No. 1 / Moment Musical No. 3Satie: Gnossienne No. 1; Schubert: Moment musical No. 3
- Piano Concerto in G: Adagio AssaiRavel: Piano Concerto in G major, II. Adagio assai
- The Last HopeGottschalk: The Last Hope, Op. 16