Fred Hersch Trio: Alive at the Vanguard – review

(Palmetto)In this set from New York's Village Vanguard, the great US pianist Fred Hersch is accompanied by the superb bassist John Hébert and drummer Eric McPherson. Hersch's ostensibly conservative approach is rooted in song-based jazz-piano conventions, but his fluency and intelligence keep reiterating that his is a music of the moment, not the past. Hébert and the quietly compatible McPherson often drop into the shadows behind the contrapuntally-jostling flow of the pianist's fast improvisa...

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