Fred Hersch
Fred Hersch (born October 21, 1955) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and a 17-time Grammy nominée. He was the first person to play weeklong engagements as a solo pianist at the Village Vanguard in New York City. He has written and recorded more than 75 original compositions.
Genre: jazz-piano, modern-jazz-piano
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Top Tracks
- Star-Crossed Lovers
- Little Song
- Akrasia
- Wouldn't It Be Loverly
- Night Tide Light
- Aeon
- Starlight
- Silent, Listening
- Wichita Lineman
- Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise
- The Wind
- Solitude
- Get Out Of Town
- After You've Gone
- Volon
- When I'm Sixty Four
- West Virginia Rose / The Water is Wide
- All I Want
- Winter of my Discontent
- Song Without Words, No. 2: Ballad
Albums (40)
- Silent, Listening (2024)
- Alive at the Village Vanguard (2023)
- The Song Is You (2022)
- Breath by Breath (2022)
- Songs From Home (2020)
- Begin Again (2019)
- Live in Healdsburg (2018)
- Evanescence: A Tribute to Bill Evans (2017)
- A House Of Many Rooms: New Concert Music by Fred Hersch (2017)
- Beautiful Love (Remastered) (2017)
- Open Book (2017)
- Sunday Night at the Vanguard (2016)
- Sarabande (2016)
- Solo (2015)
- Free Flying (2013)
- Only Many (2013)
- Alone at the Vanguard (1970)
- Whirl (1970)
- Fred Hersch Plays Jobim (2009)
- Live At Jazz Standard (2009)
- This We Know (1970)
- Hersch, F.: Concert Music (2001-06) (2007)
- Night & The Music (1970)
- In Amsterdam: Live at the Bimhuis (1970)
- Trio + 2 (1970)
- Songs ; Lullabies (2003)
- Personal Favorites (1970)
- Live at the Village Vanguard (1970)
- Duo Live (2001)
- Songs Without Words (1970)
- Let Yourself Go (Live at Jordan Hall) (1999)
- Songs We Know (1998)
- Thelonious: Fred Hersch Plays Monk (1998)
- Thirteen Ways (1997)
- Fred Hersch Plays Rodgers & Hammerstein (1996)
- Passion Flower: Fred Hersch Plays Billy Strayhorn (1996)
- Slow Hot Wind (1995)
- Point in Time (1970)
- The Maybeck Recital Series, Vol. 31 (1994)
- Etc Plus One (1970)
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