Fred Hersch

Fred Hersch
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Styles: Post-Bop, Mainstream Jazz, Progressive Jazz, Standards, Chamber Jazz, Bop
Biography: A superior soloist, accompanist, and interpreter of ballads, Fred Hersch started playing piano when he was four. He moved to New York in 1977 and worked as a sideman with many players including Stan Getz, Joe Henderson, Toots Thielemans, Art Farmer, Jane Ira Bloom, Eddie Daniels, and Janis Siegel, in ...Read full biography
Leaves of Grass
Released: 2005
Label: Palmetto
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Leaves of Grass finds pianist Fred Hersch and a stellar ensemble of musicians performing Walt Whitman's classic poetry to music. Hersch has long displayed an organic mix of Keith Jarrett's blissed-out ...Read full review
Plays Billy Strayhorn
Released: 1995
Label: Nonesuch
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For this well-rounded tribute to the great Billy Strayhorn (a nearly invisible genius during his lifetime), pianist Fred Hersch performs a dozen of Strayhorn's compositions, mixing together well-known ...Read full review
More Fred Hersch albums: Main Albums (33), Compilations (2)
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