Hersch often works in small settings, either as a piano soloist, or in a duo or trio. But he amplifies his message on his latest album by teaming up with Germany's WDR Big Band. This is FRESH AIR.

Open Book, Fred Hersch’s new solo-piano recording, begins with softly stated intervals that soon cohere into “The Orb,” a ballad deriving its force from harmonic complexity. Hersch wrote it several ...

If pianist Bill Evans came after Bud Powell and Art Tatum, who came after Bill Evans? Fred Hersch did. It was from Hersch that Brad Mehldau and Ethan Iverson came as his students. Evans' language ...

Hersch has been doing some interviews ahead of this, and she told Randy Johnson of The Minneapolis Star-Tribune that this is just another way to show off the many insightful women in the hockey world: ...

Jazz pianist Fred Hersch fully embraces the freedom that comes with improvisation on his solo album “Silent, Listening,” spontaneously composing and performing tunes that are often without melody, ...

Few things of meaning come across as more meaningless than another person’s dreams. Everything that makes a dream fascinating to the dreamer—the confusion, the illogic, the mercurialness of time, ...

What does musical versatility sound like? In the hands of pianist and composer Fred Hersch, it's fearless, intimate and constantly evolving. Over a career spanning more than four decades, Hersch has ...

Fred Hersch went through hell last year. The splendid pianist and composer spent months in and out of the hospital with a string of life-threatening maladies, including pneumonia and a frightening ...

The last year and a half hasn't been easy for Fred Hersch: The award-winning jazz pianist and composer spent months in a coma and almost died. But he has a new album out — Live at the Jazz Standard — ...

Top contemporary jazz pianist Fred Hersch, who is nominated for two 2018 Grammy Awards, has long channeled his turbulent life into his work. The 62-year-old has faced down sneering disapproval as one ...

I never paid enough attention, over the years, to the jazz pianist Fred Hersch, but when I picked up his revelatory memoir, “Good Things Happen Slowly,” a few months ago, it made me want to sit down ...