“The Great American Songbook” is the most popular and historically important American songs from the 1920s to the 1950s. From Broadway musicals to Hollywood movies, the “American Standards” include works by composers like Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers amongst many others. In “Re/Sounding: An American Songbook for Piano,” Jordan Nelson takes a selection of these classic tunes like “Paper Moon,” “My Funny Valentine,” “Over the Rainbow,” and “Tea for Two” and reinterprets, recontextualizes, and reimagines them through his unique musical voice. The piece is presented here in its first recording by composer/pianist Thomas Kotcheff — Core Artist of Piano Spheres and founding member of the virtuosic piano duo HOCKET. Like a 21st century remix on the most popular and enduring songs from the American Golden Age of songwriting, “Re/Sounding: An American Songbook for Piano” collides jazz standards, Hollywood musicals, and Tin Pan Alley with modernism, extended piano techniques, and artistic virtuosity all through the “magnificent pianism” (Los Angeles Times) of Thomas Kotcheff.