Fred Hersch: Jobim and More at Stanford Jazz Festival

A true musical leader and prolific recording artist with over 45 albums, Fred Hersch is a pianist and composer of consummate skill and adventurous sensibility, who has been honored with a 2003 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, an NEA grant and several Grammy nominations. His 2009 album Fred Hersch Plays Jobim (which was actually recorded years earlier, but rediscovered in 2008 when Hersch was critically ill) is what the New York Times has dubbed “one of his deepest records.” Through the prism of Hersch’s inimitable solo piano style, Jobim’s songs sparkle with “a loveliness that reaches down into the heart” (All About Jazz)....

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A true musical leader and prolific recording artist with over 45 albums, Fred Hersch is a pianist and composer of consummate skill and adventurous sensibility, who has been honored with a 2003 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, an NEA grant and several Grammy nominations. His 2009 album Fred Hersch Plays Jobim (which was actually recorded years earlier, but rediscovered in 2008 when Hersch was critically ill) is what the New York Times has dubbed “one of his deepest records.” Through the prism of Hersch’s inimitable solo piano style, Jobim’s songs sparkle with “a loveliness that reaches down into the heart” (All About Jazz).

For more information on this event or to purchase tickets please visit http://www.stanfordjazz.org/jazzfestival/07_09.html or call (650) 725-ARTS [2787]

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