“When I first heard Hersch interviewed on NPR years ago, I said, ‘I’ve got to know more about this guy. His music is going to tell me something that, as a doctor, I’d otherwise never know.” said Dr. Rita Charon, the executive director of the Program in Narrative Medicine. What it taught her, and the …
“A remarkable and touching work” says ARTINFO about Fred Hersch’s MY COMA DREAMS
MY COMA DREAMS will be at Columbia University March, 2nd. Get your tickets at http://www.mycomadreams.com/ ARTINFO's review "It is a remarkable and touching work, by turns alarming and funny, tense and tender, showcasing equally Hersch’s deep love of, say, Thelonious Monk’s music, and his deeply loving relationship with his partner."
Fantastic shoot at the Village Vanguard – Fred Hersch performing solo
Fred Hersch was the first solo pianist to play the Vanguard, which has been the country's premier jazz club for 70 years!
We are having a blast editing Fred Hersch Now with the fantastic Vivien Hillgrove
Great day in the editing room with renown editor Vivien Hillgrove.
In Berkeley for a couple of months editing a rough-cut of Fred Hersch Now
Don’t miss Fred Hersch Trio at the Village Vanguard this week
If you are not able to join, get Fred's new DVD Alive at the Vanguard. It's a gem!
“Last week on his blog Ethan Iverson published a long-form interview on this subject with his former piano guru, Fred Hersch.” writes Nate Chinen in the NY Times
Ethan Iverson (photo by Cristina Guadalupe) Beginning in 1993, I studied consistently with Fred Hersch for several years. I still occasionally consult with him about piano problems. Logically he should have been one of the first DTM interviews; I'm surprised it's taken this long to sit down together. Before turning on the tape, I said to Fred, …
Back in production with a weekend at Scott and Fred Hersch’s home in PA.
Carrie Lozano, Fred Hersch and Charlotte LagardeFred Hersch and Scott Morgan at their home in PA Our awesome Director of Photography Andy Schocken in action
“Hersch brings verve to Whitman’s verse with LEAVES OF GRASS ” The Boston Globe
"Fred Hersch first read the earthy transcendentalist verse of Walt Whitman as an undergraduate at New England Conservatory in the mid-1970s, an encounter that made an indelible impression on the rapidly blossoming jazz pianist..." Read more in the Boston Globe
“I hear a kind of classical post-War Americana in Hersch’s piece, maybe as much Copland and Bernstein as Ellington.”
Fred is performing Leaves of Grass in Boston Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough St, Boston April 26 | 8 pm | Free | 6176.585.1260 Check the review in The Boston Phoenix "For myself, I hear a kind of classical post-War Americana in Hersch’s piece, maybe as much Copland and Bernstein as Ellington. But what …
The Ballad of Fred Hersch 