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Fred Hersch to Release "Whirl" on Palmetto Records
"Hersch's music--luxurious, free-flowing, unashamedly gorgeous jazz--is idiosyncratically, unmistakably a creation of his own," David Hajdu wrote in a recent, riveting New York Times Magazine profile on Hersch's music and life. The piece detailed Hersch's recovery from a harrowing, near-death health battle, placed him in the forefront of contemporary, innovative jazz artists, and chronicled his influence on ...
Alexis Cole: Someday My Prince Will Come
by Ernest Barteldes
Music from Disney films and cartoons has often drifted into jazz thanks to its rich harmonies and evergreen quality, but it is not every day that a vocalist makes an entire CD with personal renditions of these popular tunes. Such is the case of Alexis Cole's Someday My Prince Will Come, which features a ...
Jazz Pianist Fred Hersch to Perform at Adelphi University on April 17th
Adelphi University is pleased to welcome solo jazz pianist Fred Hersch as he performs his diverse repertoire. The event, “A Jazz Genius!" will take place on April 17, 2010, at 8:00 p.m. in Adelphi's Performing Arts Center, Concert Hall, 1 South Avenue, Garden City, NY. He will lead a free two-hour jazz master class with the ...
Swinging on the Hudson: An Unlikely Haven for Jazz
THE Pianist Fred Hersch seemed right at home here one recent Saturday night, onstage at the Falcon, a perfectly unlikely jazz haven in this Hudson Valley hamlet. Leading a trio, he mingled standards and originals, including a graceful waltz with the appropriate title Snow Is Falling. The standing-room crowd, a few hundred strong, was lavish with ...
Hot and Cool: 40 Years of Jazz at NEC
by Marcia Hillman
New England Conservatory (NEC) is celebrating the 40th anniversary of being America's first fully-accredited Jazz Studies Program at a music conservatory. The merriment kicked off in NEC's home of Boston with a week of events in October 2009, culminating in a performance by the Wayne Shorter Quartet accompanied by the school's Philharmonia, a merger between jazz ...
Fred Hersch = Lebron James?
Fred at the piano is like LeBron James on the basketball court. He's perfection. – Jason Moran David Hajdu's recent New York Times Magazine profile of pianist Fred Hersch is an odd amalgam of hyperbolic praise (above), made-up trends ("A new movement in jazz has surfaced over the past few years—a wave of highly ...
Giant Steps: The Survival of a Great Jazz Pianist
Influential artists sometimes click in the public consciousness only after the rise of the movements they have influenced. A school of creative work emerges--seemingly spontaneously, its origins obscure at first. Then, with attention to the artists in that school comes recognition of their influences, their antecedents and their mentors. After Pollock, de Kooning and their peers ...
Joanne Brackeen: Phenomenal Capacity
by Russ Musto
One of the most heralded pianists of her era, JoAnne Brackeen came to New York in 1965 after cutting her chops jamming with the likes of Teddy Edwards, Harold Land, Charles Lloyd and Dexter Gordon during the waning days of the Central Avenue scene in her native California. After a few dues-paying years here, she landed ...
Amy Cervini: Lovefool
by Andrew Velez
For this recording songbird Amy Cervini drops ever so lightly upon songs on the theme of love. The sources are as varied as Jack Johnson and Depeche Mode, covering a broad spectrum of genres, styles and periods. The opener, “Bye-Bye Country Boy," recalls a sophisticate's brief pastoral dalliance. It's a tune that others are rediscovering now ...
Let Yourself Go: The Lives of Jazz Pianist Fred Hersch
by Chris Kompanek
Fred Hersch Let Yourself Go: The Lives of Fred Hersch AHA! DVD 2008Katja Duregger's intimate documentary about virtuoso pianist Fred Hersch has the personal touch of a home movie. Broken down into four sections that are viewed individually on the DVD, the film covers all aspects of his ...
