Jazz / Post-Bop
Fred Hersch - Producer, Piano, Liner Notes
Alan Silverman Transfer Engineer
Bob Katz Engineer
David Chesky Producer
Drew Gress Bass
Erik Friedlander Cello
Lisa Hershfield Production Assistant
Nicholas Prout Mastering, Editing
Norman Chesky Executive Producer
Rich Perry Sax (Tenor)
Scott Colley Bass
Tom Rainey Drums
Fred Hersch
Active Decades: '80s, '90s and '00s
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Chamber Jazz, Bop, Post-Bop, Mainstream Jazz, Progressive Jazz, Standards
A superior soloist, accompanist, and interpreter of ballads, Fred Hersch started playing piano when he was four. He moved to New York in 1977 and worked as a sideman with many players including Stan Getz, Joe Henderson, Toots Thielemans, Art Farmer, Jane Ira Bloom, Eddie Daniels, and Janis Siegel, in addition to leading his own groups. During 1980-1986, he taught at the New England Conservatory and became part of the faculty at the New School. In addition, Hersch has recorded extensively as a leader, including for Sunnyside, Concord, AngelEMI, Red, and Chesky, issuing Songs We Know in 1998. Songs Without Words followed three years later. Since that time, Hersch has remained quite active, releasing a bevy of albums including the three-disc Songs Without Words in 2001, the ambitious Walt Whitman-inspired project Leaves of Grass in 2005, and Night & the Music in 2007. In 2009, Live at Jazz Standard appeared on Sunnyside, billed under the Fred Hersch Pocket Orchestra.
--- Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
