ved recordings for Chesky culls material from three discs-1991's Forward Motion, 1993's Dancing in the Dark and 1994's The Fred Hersch Trio Plays. Down Beat calls Hersch "one EFTA00741357 from his opera, "The Sacrifice," a work based on a medieval Welsh tale and focusing on issues of love and conflic

ad." Back in New York in the early 1950s, McRae got the record contract that launched her career. In 1954, she was voted best new female vocalist by Down Beat magazine. She married bassist Ike Isaacs in the late 1950s. Among her most interesting recording projects were Mad About The Man (1957) with compos