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Pianist and composer Fred Hersch's new album, Fred Hersch Pocket Orchestra, Live at the Jazz Standard, is out now on Sunnyside Records.
July 10, 2009 - Pianist and composer Fred Hersch has performed in solo, duo, trio and quintet settings.
In 2003, he received a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, which he used to create Leaves of Grass, a composition inspired by the poems of Walt Whitman.
Fred Hersch Pocket Orchestra: Live at Jazz Standard is his newest album, coming on the heels of a 2006 solo disc, Fred Hersch in Amsterdam: Live at the Bimhuis.
Fresh Air's jazz critic has a review.
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