(We respectfully ask that no photos are taken during performance)
Featuring:
Fred Hersch/Piano, John Hébert/Bass and drummer Eric McPherson/Drums
"The most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz...." - Vanity Fair
"When it comes to the art of solo piano in jazz, there are two classes of performers: Fred Hersch and everybody else." - All About Jazz
Of the CD "The Fred Hersch Trio: Sunday Night At The Vanguard" recorded on Sunday March 27, 2016, Hersch writes, "We captured lightening in a bottle in a way that is almost impossible to get in a studio." At age 60, Hersch continues to grow as a pianist in richness and depth, and the trio's interaction is more refined than ever. ...
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(We respectfully ask that no photos are taken during performance)
Featuring:
Fred Hersch/Piano, John Hébert/Bass and drummer Eric McPherson/Drums
"The most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz...." - Vanity Fair
"When it comes to the art of solo piano in jazz, there are two classes of performers: Fred Hersch and everybody else." - All About Jazz
Of the CD "The Fred Hersch Trio: Sunday Night At The Vanguard" recorded on Sunday March 27, 2016, Hersch writes, "We captured lightening in a bottle in a way that is almost impossible to get in a studio." At age 60, Hersch continues to grow as a pianist in richness and depth, and the trio's interaction is more refined than ever.
All About Jazz Review:
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/sunday-night-at-the-vanguard-fred-hersch-palmetto-records-review-by-dan-mcclenaghan.php
www.fredhersch.com
A select member of the jazz piano pantheon, Fred Hersch is a pervasive force, shaping the course of music for more than three decades as an improviser, composer, educator, bandleader, collaborator and recording artist. An eight-time Grammy Award nominee, he continues to earn jazz´s most prestigious awards, including 2016 Doris Duke Artist and 2016 Jazz Pianist of the Year from the Jazz Journalists Association. Hersch has long defined jazz´s creative edge in a wide variety of settings.
Hersch has collaborated with an astonishing range of artists throughout worlds of jazz (Joe Henderson, Charlie Haden, Art Farmer, Stan Getz, Bill Frisell); classical (Renée Fleming, Dawn Upshaw, Christopher O'Riley); and Broadway (Audra McDonald). Long admired for his sympathetic work with singers, Hersch has joined with such notable jazz vocalists as Nancy King, Janis Siegel, Cecile McLorin Salvant, Norma Winstone and Kurt Elling.
Hersch's influence has been widely felt on a new generation of jazz pianists, from former students Brad Mehldau and Ethan Iverson to his colleague Jason Moran, who has said, "Fred at the piano is like LeBron James on the basketball court. He´s perfection."
Hersch´s 2010 theatrical project, My Coma Dreams, prompted the New York Times Sunday Magazine to describe Hersch as "singular among the trailblazers of their art, a largely unsung innovator of this borderless, individualistic jazz—a jazz for the 21st century." Based on visions Hersch experienced during a two-month coma in 2008, the evening-length multimedia collaboration with writer/director Herschel Garfein for 11 instrumentalists and an actor/singer was captured on video at Columbia University and released by Palmetto on a 2014 DVD (available on Amazon).
New York Times Magazine Feature:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/arts/music/my-coma-dreams-by-fred-hersch-review.html?_r=0
For two decades Hersch has been a passionate spokesman and fund-raiser for AIDS services and education agencies. He has produced and performed on four benefit recordings and in numerous concerts for charities including Classical Action: Performing Arts Against AIDS and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. To day, his efforts have raised more than $300,000. He has also been a keynote speaker and performer at international medical conferences in the U.S. and Europe.
The feature documentary "The Ballad of Fred Hersch" (https://fredherschfilm.com/) premiered at the prestigious Full Frame Film Festival in March 2016 to a sold-out house and rave reviews. His memoir, Good Things Happen Slowly, will be published in 2017 by Crown Books/Random House.
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