From the moment you click onto the website, you’ll be streaming the lucid, light, deep and delicate jazz piano compositions of composer & 3 time Grammy nominee Fred Hersch, whom Vanity Fair has described as “the most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz over the last decade…”  This music has whole conversations between the keys, and the opportunity to listen in is provided on his newest cd:  Fred Hersch Trio – Alive at the Vanguard.  This is not a throwaway title. In fact it is deeply serious; four years ago Fred went into a three-month coma after suffering AIDS-related dementia.  He was unable to perform for several months after.  Only three years later, in 2011, he played a week-long engagement at NYC’s Village Vanguard, and his cd Alone at the Vanguard was created.  The new, 2012 release celebrates his life and continued productivity.  He has been involved in AIDS education and fundraising since 1993, and it doesn’t seem as if he’s planning to let any of it go any time soon.

Go and catch him on his tour this fall!  We’ve just missed him at NYC’s Village Vanguard in September, but tonight he’s in DC, then onto Baltimore, London & all over England & Scotland, then back to New Jersey, Chicago and New Haven before flying back to the European continent to tour throughout November.  He hits the US again on November 29th for a show in Brooklyn, then travels to Saratoga, CA, but returns to the Village Vanguard for another week from Jan 8 – 13, 2013, before heading upstate…and it goes on & on.  How DOES this man find the energy?!

Get up and move to his music – nothing stops him, and it shouldn’t you either!

September 27, 8pm
Blues Alley, Washington, DC

September 28, 8pm
An Die Musik
Baltimore, MD

October 2, 8pm
Purcell Room
London, UK

Consult the “Tour” section of his website for the many more shows.