Like Ornette Coleman, Roger Kellaway, and other major musicians Fred Hersch inhabits a world of pure music. Not that he has left "jazz" behind, but his compositions and improvisations extend beyond ...

Open Book, Fred Hersch’s new solo-piano recording, begins with softly stated intervals that soon cohere into “The Orb,” a ballad deriving its force from harmonic complexity. Hersch wrote it several ...

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Heard in Herbst Theatre's lobby during intermission at Fred Hersch's piano recital last weekend -- "For a classical pianist, he does seem to understand jazz." And, from other lips a few feet away, "He ...

Jazz pianist Fred Hersch fully embraces the freedom that comes with improvisation on his solo album “Silent, Listening,” spontaneously composing and performing tunes that are often without melody, ...

Pianist Fred Hersch has led one of those musical lives — studying music theory when he was in fourth grade, for instance — that might make you feel that music-making is meant for child prodigies and ...

Hersch often works in small settings, either as a piano soloist, or in a duo or trio. But he amplifies his message on his latest album by teaming up with Germany's WDR Big Band. This is FRESH AIR.

When Fred Hersch was learning to be a jazz pianist in New York City in the 1970s, the requirements were simple: Be able to play the tunes and don’t be a jerk. “Today every young jazz pianist is ...

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