This is a brilliant CD, with a huge stylistic and emotional range. It's basically a collections of jazz fantasies, where one section meanders freely to another, perhaps to a completely different style. The treatment of Clare's "Pensativa" is dense and ruminative, and very different from any recorded version of his now-standard tune which I've heard before. In other cuts, his use of a solid 30's stride approach, but with a dissonant post - impressionist harmonic vocabulary is just jaw-droppingly rich. Amazing stuff, and clear evidence of why at least two generations of jazz pianists have considered him a deity.

My first encounter with Fischer's music, on recommendation. The standards are played beautifully, without the often annoying show-off pianoplaying that dominates other artist's CDs. My personal favourite is track 8 ('Guajira'), which is carefully built up around a simple theme.