In 1985, he played with the Jamie Baum Quartet.
In 1983–84, Hersch played many sessions with Jane Ira Bloom in several venues, and with whom he recorded the album, Mighty Lights. His lines often become gently billowing waves of sound, and he rises and falls, tenses and relaxes along with them." He is openly involved in what he is playing and projects this involvement with body English and facial expressions that subtly underline the sense of his music. In 1983, Hersch played a duo session with bassist Ratzo Harris at the Knickerbocker Saloon, New York.
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He played at the Kool Jazz Festival, and with Joe Henderson in the New Jazz at the Public series in the same year. The following year, his trio played for singer Chris Connor, who was making a comeback after completing a recovery program for alcoholism. Dalton Bookseller, one of many fringe events that were an offshoot of the Newport Jazz Festival. In 1980, the Fred Hersch Trio played at B. It included two original compositions by Hersch. In 1982, the album A Work of Art (Art Farmer Quartet, Concord Jazz CJ-179), was released, with Hersch on piano. Jazz critic Leonard Feather wrote that he "showed his ability as an accompanist and soloist at the out-of-tune piano".
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One of Fred Hersch's earliest professional engagements was with Art Farmer in Los Angeles in 1978. Hersch recalls being in the audience when bandleader Art Pepper kicked the pianist hired for the occasion off the stand and asked if there was anyone in the audience who could sit in, an offer that Fred took up which essentially launched his career. In his 2017 autobiography, Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life In and Out of Jazz, Hersch talks about seeing Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Arkestra at Gilly's a now closed jazz club in Dayton, Ohio. On graduation, he became a jazz piano instructor at the college. He continued his studies at the New England Conservatory under Jaki Byard, attracting attention from the press – "a fine showcase for Fred Hersch" – in a college recital. He dropped out of school and started playing jazz in Cincinnati. Hersch first became interested in jazz while at Grinnell College in Iowa. He won national piano competitions starting at the age of ten. He began playing the piano at the age of four (under the tutelage of Jeanne Kirstein) and began to compose music by eight. Hersch was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Jewish parents. Hersch has been nominated for several Grammy Awards, and, as of December 2014, had been on the Jazz Studies faculty of the New England Conservatory since 1980 (with breaks). He has recorded more than 70 of his jazz compositions. He was the first person to play weeklong engagements as a solo pianist at the Village Vanguard in New York City. Fred Hersch (born October 21, 1955) is an American jazz pianist, educator and HIV/AIDS activist.
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