CURRENT PROJECT
BREATH BY BREATH
Breath By Breath features a stunning new suite inspired by Hersch’s meditation practice performed by Hersch with Drew Gress, Jochen Rueckert, Rogerio Boccato, and the Crosby Street String Quartet. Breath By Breath draws inspiration from the pianist’s longtime practice of mindfulness meditation, centered on the new eight-movement “Sati Suite.” But while the album is certainly contemplative and lustrous, it’s far from being merely an ambient backdrop for blissful relaxation – the music on Breath By Breath is as fully engaged and emotionally rich as any that Hersch has made over the course of his remarkable career.
BIO.
“the most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz over the last decade” Vanity Fair
“A living legend.” The New Yorker
A select member of jazz’s piano pantheon, Fred Hersch is a pervasively influential creative force who has shaped the music’s course over more than three decades as an improviser, composer, educator, bandleader, collaborator and recording artist.
With some fifty albums to his credit as a leader or co-leader, he’s a 15-time Grammy Award nominee who continues to earn jazz’s most prestigious awards, including distinctions as a 2016 Doris Duke Artist and being named Jazz Pianist of the Year three times from the Jazz Journalists Association.
Proclaimed “a living legend” by The New Yorker, Hersch has long defined jazz’s creative edge in a wide variety of settings, from his breathtaking solo recitals and exploratory duos to his extraordinary trios and innovative chamber settings. He has had duo partnerships with such diverse artists as vocalists Renee Fleming, Kurt Elling and Norma Winstone; clarinetist Anat Cohen; saxophonist Miguel Zenon; guitarists Bill Frisell and Julian Lage and trumpeter Avishai Cohen. As a composer, he is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship– and his recent releases Breath By Breath with his trio and the Crosby Street String Quartet; the 2020 solo disc Songs From Home; The Song Is You with trumpet legend Enrico Rava; and Fred Hersch & esperanza spalding: Alive at the Village Vanguard are definitive statements. His acclaimed memoir Good Things Happen Slowly is now available from Crown Archetype Books. fredhersch.com
TOURING CONFIGURATIONS
Breath by Breath (jazz trio plus string quartet)
Solo piano
Trio
Duo
Fred Hersch with Jazz Orchestra
Arrangements by Vince Medoza
Featuring music from Begin Again with the WDR Jazz Orchestra
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