Fred Hersch And Friends at Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts

Wednesday, April 10, 7PM Fred Hersch, solo piano
Thursday, April 11, 8PM Larry Goldings and Fred Hersch, pianos
Friday, April 12, 8PM Sara Gazarek, voice and Fred Hersch, piano
Saturday, April 13, 8PM Charles Lloyd, saxophone and flute and Fred Hersch, piano

For more than 10 years, pianist Fred Hersch has invited a wide range of musicians to join him in duo performances at New York’s Jazz Standard. This inaugural Mondavi Center four-night run brings a distinctively West Coast sensibility to the format, finding Hersch working with a selection of artists he admires, all of whom call California home. ...

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Wednesday, April 10, 7PM Fred Hersch, solo piano
Thursday, April 11, 8PM Larry Goldings and Fred Hersch, pianos
Friday, April 12, 8PM Sara Gazarek, voice and Fred Hersch, piano
Saturday, April 13, 8PM Charles Lloyd, saxophone and flute and Fred Hersch, piano

For more than 10 years, pianist Fred Hersch has invited a wide range of musicians to join him in duo performances at New York’s Jazz Standard. This inaugural Mondavi Center four-night run brings a distinctively West Coast sensibility to the format, finding Hersch working with a selection of artists he admires, all of whom call California home.

These performances are his first collaborations with all of these artists. Larry Goldings is his cousin and they have known each other for more than 30 years—from the time that Larry was a student at New York’s New School Jazz Program. Though he has never met Sara, he is a longtime admirer of her singing. And Charles Lloyd has long been on Hersch’s “bucket list” of musicians he wants to play with—he thinks he’s one of the last of the authentic, master jazz artists still with us.

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