#fred hersch

[musicollage]

Fred Hersch — Silent, Listening. 2024 : ECM 2799.

[yourdailyqueer]

Fred Hersch

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: 21 October 1955

Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish

Occupation: Musician, composer, teacher, activist

Note: Has HIV

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[nonesuchrecords]

Happy International Jazz Day! Celebrate with our newly updated Nonesuch: Jazz playlist of music by Cecile McLorin Salvant, Brad Mehldau, Mary Halvorson, Makaya McCraven, Yussef Dayes, Joshua Redman, Jeff Parker, Tigran Hamasyan, Rachael & Vilray, Rob Mazurek, Ben LaMar Gay, Sam Gendel, Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Allen Toussaint, Fred Hersch, and more. You can listen on Spotify and Apple Music here.

[mostlymonk]

Work

Fred Hersch Trio    with Will Vinson

Will Vinson – sax  Fred Hersch – piano Matt Penman – bass Colin Stranahan – drums

[nprfreshair]

Pianist Fred Hersch began his jazz career in the closet, but nearly 30 years ago, when people in the jazz world were afraid to come out, he identified himself as gay and HIV positive. Nine years ago he spent several weeks in a medically-induced coma; later he wrote songs inspired by his coma dreams. His memoir is Good Things Happen Slowly. Listen.

[sonntagsschule]

Tango Bittersweet, Eunbi Kim is playing a composition of Fred Hersch

[mosaicrecords]

Premiere: Watch a Full Performance of Fred Hersch's Coma Dreams

Fred Hersch is no stranger to the experience of living through a coma. Indeed, he thought about his experience so exhaustively that he composed a piece about his two-month medically induced coma. He's divulged elements of this experience in his highly recommendable book, Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life In and Out of Jazz. Soon, he'll be making a filmed performance available on YouTube, but thanks to WBGO, you can watch it now. If there were ever a time for us to ponder that unearthly world, wouldn't our pandemic age seem to qualify?

-Nick Moy

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