Results for "Thirteen Ways"

Thirteen Ways

Fred Hersch: The Touch of Genius

by Ken Dryden
April 17, 2026

The sound of Fred Hersch at the piano is so distinctive, a couple of bars is usually enough to identify him. The mainly self-taught Cincinnati native excelled early, playing jazz in his home town before leaving to study with pianist Jaki Byard at the New England Conservatory of Music. From there, Fred moved to New York ...

A World of Piano

by Jerome Wilson
September 14, 2022

This is two hours of piano played by icons including Thelonious Monk and Cecil Taylor, overlooked figures Hasaan Ibn Ali and Horace Tapscott, and current stars Brad Mehldau and Fred Hersch. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air ...

Thirteen Ways

By Matthias Spillmann

Label: Unit Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: 01. Margine de Gând; 02. Cine iubeste si lasa; 03. Mult ma-ntreaba frunza-ngusta; 04. Doina de Maria Lataretu; 05. Horea frunzei verzi; 06. Nu-l dau pe azi pentru mâine; 07. Seven Variations of a Christmas Song; 08. Interlude; 09. Rêve sans fin / ni trêve à rien; 10. Leagana-se frunza-n soare; 11. Haulita de la Gorj; 12. Postlude; 13. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.

Grünes Blatt: Thirteen Ways

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 2, 2012

Sestetto pienamente nel segno di quelle che si è soliti definire “pari opportunità" (tre uomini e tre donne), questo Grünes Blatt, sorto nel 2008 e qui al suo album d'esordio, in cui folklore rumeno e jazz contemporaneo si incontrano in un cocktail coerente e sufficientemente originale. I climi tendono alla pacatezza e alla riflessività, raffinati e ...

Focus

By Thirteen Ways

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Focus; Janeology; Out Someplace (Blues For Matthew Shepard); Autumn Eves; En Tee; Tango Bittersweet; Bug Music; Fim De Inverno; Identity; One Note To My Wife; Habanera.

Thirteen Ways: Focus

by AAJ Staff
October 1, 2000

Focus, the second record by the trio of Fred Hersch, Michael Moore, and Gerry Hemingway, continues with the same emphasis on intimacy and subtlety found on their self-titled debut. To quote from the fifth verse of the Wallace Stevens poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird": I do not know which to prefer ...

Thirteen Ways: Focus

by Mark Corroto
March 1, 2000

For an artist the process of abstracting an idea reveals the genius of his/her work. Picasso would begin with the reality of say, a bull. He would draw it many ways, each time paring away the unnecessary elements until he had captured the essence of the bull. He said this simplifying leaves merely the idea of ...

Thirteen Ways: Focus

by Glenn Astarita
February 1, 2000

Music-Magic is likely to occur when you unite woodwind specialist Michael Moore with pianist Fred Hersch and the very “musical” drummer/composer Gerry Hemingway for a recording session! Each one of these fine modernists are equally at home whether performing free-improv, chamber, mainstream or music so indefinable that mere words or classifications could be rendered banal or ...

Thirteen Ways (Hersch - Moore - Hemingway): Focus

by Glenn Astarita
February 1, 2000

Music-Magic is likely to occur when you unite woodwind specialist Michael Moore with pianist Fred Hersch and the very “musical” drummer/composer Gerry Hemingway for a recording session! Each one of these fine modernists are equally at home whether performing free-improv, chamber, mainstream or music so indefinable that mere words or classifications could be rendered banal or ...