FRED HERSCH

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Fred Hersch (born October 21, 1955 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a contemporary American jazz pianist who has become a consistent and highly demanded performer on the international jazz scene.

Hersch began playing piano at a very young age and graduated from the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. His teachers included Sophia Rosoff. He moved to New York City in the late 1970s where he soon found a place playing with notable artists such as Stan Getz, Joe Henderson, Lee Konitz, and Charlie Haden.

Hersch soon began cutting his own records and became a noted composer. Like a number of jazz pianists who have come of age over the past 20 years, he is strongly influenced by the work of Bill Evans, though Hersch has also been at pains to distance himself from Evans' influence. Although Hersch has played in a number of different instrumental arrangements, he is read more...
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FRED HERSCH Horizons album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
 Horizons
Post Bop 1985
FRED HERSCH Sarabande (with Charlie Haden, Joey Baron) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Sarabande (with Charlie Haden, Joey Baron)
Post Bop 1987
FRED HERSCH ETC (with Steve La Spina & Jeff Hirshfield) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 ETC (with Steve La Spina & Jeff Hirshfield)
Post Bop 1988
FRED HERSCH Fred Hersch Trio : Heartsongs album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
 Fred Hersch Trio : Heartsongs
Post Bop 1990
FRED HERSCH Evanessence: A Tribute to Bill Evans album cover 4.50 | 1 ratings
 Evanessence: A Tribute to Bill Evans
Post Bop 1991
FRED HERSCH Dancing In The Dark album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Dancing In The Dark
Post Bop 1993
FRED HERSCH The Fred Hersch Trio Plays... album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 The Fred Hersch Trio Plays...
Post Bop 1994
FRED HERSCH Point In Time album cover 3.50 | 2 ratings
 Point In Time
Post Bop 1995
FRED HERSCH Beautiful Love (with Jay Clayton) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Beautiful Love (with Jay Clayton)
Post Bop 1995
FRED HERSCH Passion Flower-The Music Of Billy Strayhorn album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Passion Flower-The Music Of Billy Strayhorn
Post-Fusion Contemporary 1996
FRED HERSCH Fred Hersch Plays Rodgers & Hammerstein album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Fred Hersch Plays Rodgers & Hammerstein
Post Bop 1996
FRED HERSCH Fred Hersch / Michael Moore / Gerry Hemingway : Thirteen Ways album cover 3.00 | 1 ratings
 Fred Hersch / Michael Moore / Gerry Hemingway : Thirteen Ways
Post Bop 1997
FRED HERSCH Thelonious: Fred Hersch Plays Monk album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Thelonious: Fred Hersch Plays Monk
Post Bop 1998
FRED HERSCH Songs We Know (with Bill Frisell) album cover 4.00 | 2 ratings
 Songs We Know (with Bill Frisell)
Post Bop 1998
FRED HERSCH Songs without Words album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Songs without Words
Post Bop 2001
FRED HERSCH Songs & Lullabies (with Norma Winstone) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Songs & Lullabies (with Norma Winstone)
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2003
FRED HERSCH Soothing The Senses album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Soothing The Senses
Third Stream 2003
FRED HERSCH The Fred Hersch Trio +2 album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
 The Fred Hersch Trio +2
Post Bop 2004
FRED HERSCH Leaves of Grass album cover 4.50 | 1 ratings
 Leaves of Grass
Post Bop 2005
FRED HERSCH Night & The Music album cover 3.75 | 2 ratings
 Night & The Music
Post Bop 2007
FRED HERSCH Fred Hersch Plays Jobim album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Fred Hersch Plays Jobim
Post Bop 2009
FRED HERSCH Whirl album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Whirl
Post Bop 2010
FRED HERSCH Everybody's Song But My Own album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
 Everybody's Song But My Own
Post Bop 2011
FRED HERSCH 2 Hands 10 Voices album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 2 Hands 10 Voices
Vocal Jazz 2012
FRED HERSCH Floating album cover 3.50 | 1 ratings
 Floating
Post Bop 2014
FRED HERSCH Open Book album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Open Book
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2017
FRED HERSCH Fred Hersch And The WDR Big Band Arranged And Conducted By Vince Mendoza : Begin Again album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Fred Hersch And The WDR Big Band Arranged And Conducted By Vince Mendoza : Begin Again
Progressive Big Band 2019

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FRED HERSCH Forward Motion album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Forward Motion
Post Bop 1991
FRED HERSCH Maybeck Recital Hall Series, Volume Thirty-One album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Maybeck Recital Hall Series, Volume Thirty-One
Post Bop 1994
FRED HERSCH Fred Hersch At Jordan Hall: Let Yourself Go album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Fred Hersch At Jordan Hall: Let Yourself Go
Post Bop 1999
FRED HERSCH 4 In Perspective (with Norma Winstone, Kenny Wheeler, Paul Clarvis) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 4 In Perspective (with Norma Winstone, Kenny Wheeler, Paul Clarvis)
Post Bop 2000
FRED HERSCH Live at the Village Vanguard album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Live at the Village Vanguard
Post Bop 2002
FRED HERSCH In Amsterdam: Live at the Bimhuis album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 In Amsterdam: Live at the Bimhuis
Post Bop 2005
FRED HERSCH Concert Music 2001-2006 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Concert Music 2001-2006
Third Stream 2007
FRED HERSCH The Fred Hersch Pocket Orchestra: Live at Jazz Standard album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 The Fred Hersch Pocket Orchestra: Live at Jazz Standard
Post Bop 2009
FRED HERSCH Alone at the Vanguard album cover 3.00 | 1 ratings
 Alone at the Vanguard
Post Bop 2011
FRED HERSCH Alive at the Vanguard album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
 Alive at the Vanguard
Post Bop 2012
FRED HERSCH Fred Hersch and Julian Lage: Free Flying album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Fred Hersch and Julian Lage: Free Flying
Post Bop 2013
FRED HERSCH Solo album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Solo
Post Bop 2015
FRED HERSCH Sunday Night at the Vanguard album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
 Sunday Night at the Vanguard
Post Bop 2016
FRED HERSCH Live In Europe album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Live In Europe
Post Bop 2018
FRED HERSCH Fred Hersch Trio '97 @ The Village Vanguard album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Fred Hersch Trio '97 @ The Village Vanguard
Post Bop 2018

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FRED HERSCH Personal Favorites album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 Personal Favorites
Post Bop 2006
FRED HERSCH The Fred Hersch Trio : 10 Years / 6 Discs album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
 The Fred Hersch Trio : 10 Years / 6 Discs
Post Bop 2019

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 Let Yourself Go – The Lives Of Fred Hersch
Post Bop 2009
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 My Coma Dreams
Third Stream 2014

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