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A BENEFIT ALBUM FOR BROADWAY CARES/EQUITY FIGHTS AIDS

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1 Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? 7:49 ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY

2 Nobody Else But Me 5.01 KATE McGARRY

3 Skylark 522 JESSICA MOLASKEY

4 0 Grande Amor 4:49 LUCIANA SOUZA

5 In My Life 4:43 JUDY BLAZER

6 Embraceable You 4:50 NORMA WINSTONE

7 Who Can I Turn To? 5*1 JANE MONHEIT

8 Lucky To Be Me 5:17 CAROL SLOANE

9 Only Trust Your Heart 4:34 KARRIN ALLYSON

10 Where Is Love? 437 JANIS SIEGEL

TOTAL DISC TIME: 52:23

with FRED HERSCH, piano Produced by Fred Hersch for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS

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1 Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? 7:49 ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY

Carole King/Gerald Goffin (Screen Gems-EMI Music Inc.)

2 Nobody Else But Me 5:oi KATE McGARRY

Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II (Universal-Polygram International Publishing Inc.)

3 Skylark 5:22 JESSICA MOLASKEY

Hoagy Carmichael/Johnny Mercer (Songs of Peer, Ltd./WB Music Corp.)

4 0 Grande Amor 4:49 LUCIANA SOUZA

Antonio Carlos Jobim/Vinicius de Moraes (Corcovado Music Corp./VM Enterprises, Inc.)

5 In My Life 4:43 JUDY BLAZER

John Lennon/Paul McCartney (Sony/ATV Tunes LLC/EMI Blackwood)

6 Embraceable You 4:50 NORMA WINSTONE

George Gershwin/lra Gershwin (WB Music Corp.)

7 Who Can I Turn To? 5:41 JANE MONHEIT

Leslie Bricusse/Anthony Newley (Musical Comedy Productions)

8 Lucky To Be Me 5:17 CAROL SLOANE

Leonard Bernstein/Comden & Green (The Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing Co. LLC administered by Universal Polygram International Publishing, Inc.)

9 Only Trust Your Heart 4:34 KARRIN ALLYSON

Benny Carter/Sammy Kahn (Universal-MCA Music Publishing)

10 Where Is Love? 4:17 JANIS SIEGEL

Lionel Bart (Hollic Music, Inc.)

TOTAL DISC TIME: 52:23

with FRED HERSCH, piano

Produced by Fred Hersch for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS Associate Producer/Production Coordinator: Mary-Shannon Ryan Recorded by Sean Swinney at Sean Swinney Recording, NYC Mixed by Rich Lamb at Systems Two, Brooklyn, NY Mastered by A.T. Michael MacDonald at AlgoRhythms, NYC

Cover Illustration by Robert Richards Album design: Gregory Downer

This CD created in part by a generous donation by Scott Morgan and the Microsoft Corporation

For more information about the artists, please visit:

Karrin Allyson: www.karrin.com Ann Hampton Callaway: www.annhamptoncallaway.com Fred Hersch: www.fredhersch.com Kate McGarry: www.katemcgarry.com Jessica Molaskey: www.jessicamolaskey.com Janis Siegel: www.tmtfanclub.com Carol Sloane: www.carolsloane.com Luciana Souza: www.lucianasouza.com Norma Winstone: www.normawinstone.com

Karrin Allyson appears courtesy of Concord Records Ann Hampton Callaway appears courtesy of After 9 Records Fred Hersch appears courtesy of Palmetto Records Kate McGarry appears courtesy of Palmetto Records Jessica Molaskey appears courtesy of PS Classics Jane Monheit appears courtesy of N-Coded Music Janis Siegel appears courtesy of Telarc Records Carol Sloane appears courtesy of High Note Records Luciana Souza appears courtesy of Sunnyside Records

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ince meeting Charles Hamlen shortly after he founded Classical Action: Performing Arts Against AIDS over ten years

ago, it has been my honor to produce and play on four CDs to benefit both Classical Action and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Each album has had its own theme. The first was Last Night When We Were Young: The Ballad Album; it featured performances

ranging from solo piano to quintets of great "after hours" songs. This was followed by Fred Hersch & Friends: The Duo Album, on which I played duets with many of my favorite jazz instrumentalists and vocalists. Next was The Richard Rodgers Centennial Jazz Piano Album, with solo performances of Rodgers classics by six terrific jazz pianists. And now Two Hands, Ten Voices. Again, the concept for this project was simple: invite ten wonderful vocalists to come into the studio to record a duet with me, pick a tune and a key, and see what happens. No rehearsals, no arrangements - and many of these tracks were first or second takes. And, as on all the previous discs, all of the performances and production costs have been donated — a touching tribute to the willingness of the artists and the recording community to get involved and make a wholehearted and creative contribution.

A few words about the vocalists and the selections:

Ann Hampton Callaway and I first encountered each other in the Village in the late seventies. I was playing at some little joint on Bleecker Street and she came in and sang a song or two that really made an impression. For this album, she suggested Carole King’s chestnut "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?," one of the great songs to come out of the Brill Building in the sixties. I suggested the groove, and this was the first take.

Kate McGarry is a marvelous singer at the beginning of what promises to be a great career. Someone sent me her first CD, "Show Me" - I put it on one night while I was cooking dinner and I was really knocked out. We had big fun with Jerome Kern's "Nobody Else But Me."

I first heard Jessica Molaskey at a concert at Town Hall of music by Adam Guettel and was immediately struck by her emotional connection to everything she sang. She connects superbly here with "Skylark." We had never played together before this recording but it was, as they say, like "falling off a log.”

The fantastic Brazilian vocalist Luciana Souza is equally at home with the music of her native country as well as with jazz and classical music. Both of us share a great passion for the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim, so it seemed fitting that we record an improvised version of one of his sublime melodies.

Judy Blazer and I worked up "In My Life" when we were putting material together for a CD. Though that particular project never happened, we felt that our take on this Lennon and McCartney classic was just perfect for this collection. She puts a personal and powerful spin on a great lyric.

British vocalist and lyricist Norma Winstone is one of the jazz world's best-kept secrets. Her improvising skills, the purity of her sound and her amazing range have influenced a whole generation of jazz singers. She had never sung "Embraceable You," but she certainly sounds like she owns it.

Jane Monheit and I figured out at the recording session that we met at a little jazz club on the Upper West Side shortly after her success at the Thelonious Monk Jazz Vocal Competition. Though she is a jazz singer, her roots are in musical theatre. You can certainly hear that in this lovely version of Bricusse & Newley's "Who Can I Turn To?"

I used to hear Carol Sloane on Sunday nights more than twenty years ago at Bradley's, the legendary (and much-missed) piano joint in the Village. She would sing with the fantastic Jimmy Rowles, one of the jazz world's great accompanists. She has an awesome repertoire, true elegance, a great beat - and she really knows how to read a lyric. It was a ball to play with her again.

I met Karrin Allyson in Kansas City in the mid-nineties when I was on a tour with my trio. I remember going to her apartment and giving her a piano lesson - and also remember her personal vocal sound. This is the first time we have had a chance to play together, and we thought it would be appropriate to do a tune by the recently departed Benny Carter, one of jazz's all-time treasures.

Manhattan Transfer co-founder Janis Siegel and I have been making music together since the late eighties; we have recorded several albums and have toured as a duo as well. She can truly sing anything, but to me she really "kills" a ballad. "Where Is Love?" expresses a timeless sentiment in her very personal way.

It was a great pleasure for me to musically "encounter”all of these great singers — those whom I had played with before as well as those who were new to me. I am truly pleased with the results — and truly grateful to all of them for giving of their time, talent and artistry. — Fred Hersch

Many thanks for their help to: Anna Sala, Mary Ann Topper, David Brunetti; and especially to Charles Hamlen, Mary-Shannon Ryan and Chris Kenney

at Classical Action: Performing Arts Against AIDS

Special Thanks to all who donated their time, resources and talent to this project: all of the fantastic vocalists; Rich Lamb and Nancy Marciano at Systems Two;

Michael MacDonald at AlgoRhythms; Robert Richards; Greg Downer; and Scott Morgan

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ICES

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS the nation’s leading industry-based, nonprofit AIDS fundraising and grantmaking organization.

BC/EFA is the ongoing, committed response from the American theatre community

to an urgent worldwide health crisis. By drawing upon the talents, resources and generosity

of this community, BC/EFA raises funds for AIDS-related causes across the United States.

Since its founding in 1988, BC/EFA has raised over $65 million for critically needed services

for people with AIDS, HIV or HIV-related illnesses, and their families.

For more information, please visit www.broadwaycares.org.

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