Fred Hersch

piano, composition · 1955 · Cincinnati

American pianist, composer and educator born in Cincinnati in 1955, nominated for seventeen Grammys and the author of more than 75 compositions. He was the first pianist to hold week-long solo engagements at the Village Vanguard in New York.

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Styles

• Current scene (New York, Chicago, worldwide)

Landmark tracks

• Down Home (2011)
• Lee's Dream (2011)
• Work (2011)

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