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Fred Hersch: Just Hear What Happens Next

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Uploaded by on Sep 5, 2011

Though his formal education includes study at the New England Conservatory, Fred Hersch readily points out how the on-the-bandstand schooling he received in jazz clubs like Bradley's in New York prepared him to be the musician is today. In the course of our conversation, we spoke about this journey and all that has come in its wake, but returned again and again to the idea of taking chances, trying things out, seeing what happens if—Hersch seemingly unbowed by the anxieties such open-ended performance situations bring into play. Later, he came at it head-on. "I think there has to be a certain element of danger in jazz, or it isn't really jazz," he explained.

Read the full article: http://www.newmusicbox.org/?p=8616

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  • Il miglior pianista del mondo...!!!

  • Music for the paper, and music for the body and soul...he is definitely in the 2nd category.

  • "There is a lot of contemporary composition that seem to be written by composers to have other composers analyze them in theory departments in other music schools...". So beautifully said and so true...

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