A quote:  "This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before."
Leonard Bernstein     

  • Just out!: the new recording from The Fred Hersch Trio: Night and the Music (Palmetto 2124). With Drew Gress, bass; and Nasheet Waits, drums. Music by Hersch, Berlin, Porter, Dietz & Schwartz, Gress and Monk.

    Check out the review by Nate Chinen in the April 30
    New York Times (please scroll to the bottom of the page):

  • Check out the wonderful new Kurt Elling recording of "The Sleepers" from Fred Hersch's "Leaves of Grass" on his new CD Nightmoves (Concord B000MCID64).

  • CF Peters has just published 13 Ways of Looking at the Goldberg. Commissioned by The Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, it contains new variations on the Aria from the Goldberg Variations by prominent composers including Hersch, Del Tredici, Bermel, Foss, Higdon, Sheng and others.
  • The Fred Hersch Fake Book is now available on CD in PDF format. Easy to print out tunes from any PC or Mac using Adobe Acrobat Reader. The disc contains, in hand-written (but very legible) lead-sheet form, more than 50 of his compositions from 1980-2005; many compositions include horn parts, separate bass parts and added lyrics. Price is $15 ($20 outside the US) and includes shipping.
    To order, email: info.fredhersch@earthlink.net
The Fred Hersch Trio : Night and the Music

This new CD features Hersch's longtime rhythm section of Drew Gress on bass and Nasheet Waits on drums - interpreting the music of Berlin, Schwartz, Porter, Gress, Monk and Hersch.

"specializes in high lyricism and high danger"
-The New Yorker

Available everywhere and at www.palmetto-records.com
Fred Hersch in Amsterdam: Live at the Bimhuis

captures "one of the small handful of brilliant musicians of his generation" (DownBeat) in an eclectic solo program of Hersch at his pianistic peak. Recorded live at the legendary Dutch club, this disc is a welcome return to one of his specialties -- solo piano -- for the first time on CD in five years. Music by Monk, Carmichael, Jobim, McHugh, Rowles and Hersch.

"Hersch has honed a solo piano style second to none in jazz"
-The New York Times

Available everywhere on February 21st, 2006
and at www.palmetto-records.com
music by Fred Hersch
words by Walt Whitman
The Fred Hersch Ensemble
Kurt Elling & Kate McGarry, vocalists

"...an eloquently orchestrated celebration of Walt Whitman's poetry, vision and, above all else, humanity." -The Washington Post

CD available everywhere and at www.palmetto-records.com (Palmetto 2107)
The Prestigious publishing firm
of CF Peters is now publishing
(in print form) Fred's "classical compositions".

 24 Variations on a Bach Chorale
Three Character Studies
Saloon Songs
Tango Bittersweet
Lyric Piece





"24 Variations on a Bach Chorale" is a 25-minute virtuoso work for solo piano based on the famous chorale from the "St. Matthew's Passion".
Peters Edition #68015, $22.00.







 "Three Character Studies" is a set of piano studies that are fully through-composed. The first is a Nocturne for the Left Hand Alone; second is a perpetual-motion Spinning Song; third is a Study in Thirds and Sixths in the style of a chorinho, a Brazilian tango that's a cousin of ragtime. They are challenging to play but are melodic and lots of fun. (duration: 7 minutes).
Peters Edition #68046, $12.95




 The inspiration for "Saloon Songs" comes from my colorful mental images of Lower Manhattan in the early part of the 20th Century. All three pieces use dance forms that were popular at that time - the slow drag, the waltz and ragtime. Peters Edition #EP68107, $11.95




Now available on-line from CF Peters, by calling CF Peters at 718-416-7800, or in finer music stores nationwide.


Two Hands, Ten Voices

Fred Hersch has invited ten of his favorite female vocalists from the worlds of jazz, cabaret and Broadway to sing the songs of Kern, Gershwin, Lennon & McCartney, Carole King and others on "Two Hands, Ten Voices," the second CD produced by Hersch to benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Featuring duets with Hersch and Karrin Allyson, Judy Blazer, Ann Hampton Callaway, Kate McGarry, Jessica Molaskey, Jane Monheit, Janis Siegel, Carol Sloane, Luciana Souza and Norma Winstone.

This CD is not available in stores and is only available directly from BC/EFA after October 1st. To order this disc and help in the fight against AIDS, please visit http://store.yahoo.com/broadwaycares/classical-action.htm
or call Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS at 212-840-0770, x250.
A great gift for an important cause…