The Fred Hersch Pocket Orchestra
Performing Works from Jazz Icon Fred Hersch
Saturday, December 16th — 7pm
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About the Show
Jazz
The Fred Hersch Pocket Orchestra comes to National Sawdust to feature the compositions of 10-time Grammy® nominee Fred Hersch, one of jazz’s master pianists and composers.
As the first pianist to perform weeklong engagements at New York’s iconic jazz venue, the Village Vanguard, Fred Hersch’s work became essential to the jazz canon. His Pocket Orchestra is one of his crowning achievements: a distinctive ensemble comprised of piano, voice, trumpet and percussion.
The iconic British singer and lyricist Norma Winstone contributed lyrics for this concert. Trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, vocalist Aubrey Johnson, and percussionist Rogerio Bocatto rounds out the quartet.
About the Artists
Fred Hersch
A select member of jazz’s piano pantheon, Fred Hersch is a pervasively influential creative force who has shaped the music’s course over more than three decades as an improviser, composer, educator, bandleader, collaborator and recording artist. A ten-time Grammy Award nominee, he continues to earn jazz’s most prestigious awards, including recent distinctions as a 2016 Doris Duke Artist and 2016 Jazz Pianist of the Year from the Jazz Journalists Association.
Proclaimed “the most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz over the last decade” by Vanity Fair, Hersch has long defined jazz’s creative edge in a wide variety of settings, from his breathtaking solo recitals and exploratory duos to his extraordinary trios and innovative chamber settings. With some three dozen albums to his credit as a leader or co-leader, Hersch consistently wins an international array of awards and lavish critical praise for his albums. His latest release, Sunday Night at the Vanguard (Palmetto), is a definitive statement by his long-running trio with bassist John Hébert and drummer Eric McPherson. It is nomitated for two 2016 Grammy Awards, for Best Jazz Solo and Best Jazz Album.
