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Fred Hersch Trio: Alive At The Vanguard
by Larry Taylor
Pianist Fred Hersch's Alone at the Vanguard (Palmetto) was chosen by many as one of 2011's best, and rightfully so. Now, following up that solo album, is Alive at the Vanguard, a double album which finds the pianist with his current trio. Playing together since 2010, Hersch has settled in comfortably with bassist John ...
Fred Hersch Trio: Alive at the Vanguard
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Fred Hersch has found a place to come alive: The Village Vanguard, where so many great live albums have been recorded. Saxophonists John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, pianist Bill Evans and drummer Paul Motian also found the New York City venue a prime spot for live recordings. Hersch revisits the venue with Alive the the ...
Fred Hersch Trio: Night And The Music
by AAJ Italy Staff
Grazie all’attività meritoria di label indipendenti come la Palmetto, Fred Hersch continua da qualche anno ad incidere con puntuale regolarità. Una discografia la sua che si sta facendo anno dopo anno sempre più corposa, ancorché contrassegnata dall’alto livello di creatività. Eppure - incredibilmente - il pianista statunitense incarna ancora la tipica figura di musician’s musician: artista ...
Fred Hersch Trio: Night and the Music
by Victor L. Schermer
Pianist Fred Hersch is proving himself to be not only a solid mainstream jazz pianist but also an imaginative and creative musical force. His Leaves of Grass (Palmetto, 2005), with vocalist Kurt Elling broke new ground by setting the poetry of Walt Whitman to written and improvised musical composition incorporating jazz and traditional “heartland American motifs. ...
Fred Hersch Trio: Trio + 2
by John Kelman
Following 2002’s Live at the Village Vanguard , pianist Fred Hersch takes an artistic leap, expanding his trio to a quintet for the imaginative Trio + 2. While the result is somewhat more abstract, it is equally compelling. Recorded in just a single day, this album finds Hersch and the trio at a remarkably high level ...
Fred Hersch Trio: Live At The Village Vanguard
by Mark Corroto
Pianist Fred Hersch starts off this live set unaccompanied, playing a version of Thelonious Monk’s “Bemsha Swing” in a ‘smarty-pants-deconstructed-chamber-post-modernism’ style. As we all know, Monk has never been about high mindedness, and Hersch lets you know he knows just that. Just as his rhythm partners kick in, he shakes off Carnegie Hall for a true ...
