Fred Hersch

Purcell Room, LondonCincinnati-born maestro Fred Hersch favours standard songs, the graceful, classically inflected piano methods of Bill Evans, and the avoidance of contemporary jazz's street-grooves or electronics. Casual listeners might consequently file him as a very superior supper-club interpreter of the American songbook. But Hersch, who taught Brad Mehldau, packs more jazz-piano invention into a single show than most of his better-known peers, and is a fine composer into the bargain. He ...

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