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Whirl!
The new trio CD from "... the most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz over the last decade or so.” (Vanity Fair).
Six new Hersch originals, two standards and covers of tunes by Paul Motian and Jaki Byard. The Wall Street Journal says” The breadth and scope of pianist Fred Hersch’s music is nothing less than amazing.”
With John Hébert and Eric McPherson.
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The Fred Hersch Plays Jobim
This new solo piano CD has been called “one of his deepest records” by The New York Times. 9 familiar and not-so-familiar Jobim melodies filtered through Hersch’s unique perspective
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The Fred Hersch Pocket Orchestra: Live at Jazz Standard
This new ensemble of piano, voice (Jo Lawry), trumpet (Ralph Alessi) and Richie Barshay (percussion) shocases Hersch's original compositions and is already turning heads.
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Fred Hersch in Amsterdam: Live at the Bimhuis
captures "one of the small handful of brilliant musicians of his generation" (DownBeat) in an eclectic solo program of Hersch at his pianistic peak. Recorded live at the legendary Dutch club, this disc is a welcome return to one of his specialties -- solo piano -- for the first time on CD in five years. Music by Monk, Carmichael, Jobim, McHugh, Rowles and Hersch.
"Hersch has honed a solo piano style second to none in jazz"
-The New York Times
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Fred Hersch : Concert Music 2001-2006
Hersch's first recorded collection of his through-composed concert works. It features the epic, virtuosic 24 Variations on a Bach Chorale and the romantic Lyric Piece for Trio. Also included are two short sets of Piano character pieces (including the stunning Nocturne for the Left Hand Alone) and the poignant Tango Bittersweet for cello and piano. With Blair McMillen and Natasha Paremski, piano; The Gramercy Trio; and Dorothy Lawson, Cello.
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Fred Hersch Trio: Night and the Music
features Hersch's longtime rhythm section of Drew Gress on Bass and Nasheet Waits on drums - interpreting the music of Berlin, Schwartz, Porter, Gress, Monk and Hersch.
"specializes in high lyricism and high danger"
-The New Yorker
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Fred Hersch in Amsterdam: Live at the Bimhuis
captures "one of the small handful of brilliant musicians of his generation" (DownBeat) in an eclectic solo program of Hersch at his pianistic peak. Recorded live at the legendary Dutch club, this disc is a welcome return to one of his specialties -- solo piano -- for the first time on CD in five years. Music by Monk, Carmichael, Jobim, McHugh, Rowles and Hersch.
"Hersch has honed a solo piano style second to none in jazz"
-The New York Times
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Leaves of Grass
music by Fred Hersch
words by Walt Whitman
The Fred Hersch Ensemble
Kurt Elling & Kate McGarry, vocalists
"...an eloquently orchestrated celebration of Walt Whitman's poetry, vision and, above all else, humanity."
-The Washington Post
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