by Fred Hersch
AS CO-LEADER
Free Flying, Fred Hersch and Julian Lage (Palmetto 2168)*+ (2014 Grammy Nominee)
Songs & Lullabies, Fred Hersch and Norma Winstone (Sunnyside 1108)*+
Live at Jazz Standard, Nancy King with Fred Hersch (MaxJazz 122) +∆ (2006 Grammy Nominee)
Songs We Know, Fred Hersch and Bill Frisell (Nonesuch 79468-2)
As One, Jane Ira Bloom and Fred Hersch (Winter & Winter JMT Edition 919-003-2)*+
Thirteen Ways, Fred Hersch, Michael Moore, Gerry Hemingway (GM 3033-CD)*+
Slow Hot Wind, Janis Siegel and Fred Hersch (Varese Sarabande VSD-5552)+
Beautiful Love, Jay Clayton and Fred Hersch (Sunnyside SSC-1066)+
Short Stories, Janis Siegel and Fred Hersch (Atlantic 81989)*+∆ (1989 Grammy Nominee)
E.T.C., Fred Hersch with Steve LaSpina and Jeff Hirshfield (Red Records RR123233)+
AS FEATURED SOLOIST
Haunted Heart, Renée Fleming with Fred Hersch and Bill Frisell (Decca 4406-02)
Tightrope, The Three Cohens (Anzic Records) *
Build a Bridge, Audra McDonald (Nonesuch 79862-2) ∆
Two Hands, Ten Voices, Fred Hersch with ten vocalists (Broadway Cares 1002)+
Last Night When We Were Young: The Ballad Album (Classical Action 1001)+∆
The Richard Rodgers Centennial Jazz Piano Album (Broadway Cares 1001)+
Dawn Upshaw Sings Vernon Duke (Nonesuch 79531-2)∆
Dawn Upshaw Sings Rodgers and Hart (Nonesuch 79406-2)∆
The AIDS Quilt Songbook (Harmonia Mundi/Nightengale HMU 907602)*
Maiden Voyage, Leny Andrade featuring Fred Hersch (Chesky JD-113)+∆
In a Sentimental Mood: Mathis Sings Ellington (Columbia 46069) (1991 Grammy Nominee)
AS SIDEMAN
WITH JANE IRA BLOOM
Chasing Paint (Arabesque Jazz, AJ0158)
The Red Quartets (Arabesque Jazz AJ0144)
The Nearness (Arabesque Jazz AJ0120)
Mighty Lights (featuring Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell) (Enja 4044)
Slalom (CBS 44415)
Modern Drama (CBS 40755)
WITH GARY BURTON
Departure (Concord CCD-4749-2) (featuring John Scofield, John Patitucci, and Peter Erskine)
WITH MICHAEL CALLEN
Legacy (Significant Other 50951)
WITH EDDIE DANIELS
To Bird with Love (GRP 9544)+∆ (1987 Grammy Nominee)
Breakthrough (with the London Philharmonia) (GRP 9533) (1986 Grammy Nominee)
WITH ART FARMER
Mirage (Soul Note SN-1046)*
You Make Me Smile (Soul Note 21076-2)
Yama (with Joe Henderson) (CTI 9000)
Warm Valley (Concord CJ-212)*
A Work of Art (Concord CCD-4179)* (1982 Grammy Nominee)
WITH BILLY HARPER
Quintet in Europe (Soul Note 1001)
WITH LEE KONITZ
Round and Round (MusicMasters 60167)
WITH MICHAEL MOORE
Home Game (Ramboy #02)
Chicotoumi (Ramboy #06)
Bering (Ramboy #11)
WITH LUCIANA SOUZA
North and South (Sunnyside SSC 1112) (2003 Grammy Nominee)
WITH TOOTS THIELEMANS
Only Trust Your Heart (Concord CJ-355)*+∆
Do Not Leave Me (Stash STCD-12)
WITH ROSEANNA VITRO
Softly (Concord CCD 4587)*∆
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jazz pianist, composer, activist, and educator Fred Hersch is a ten-time Grammy nominee and the recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship in Composition. He was named a 2016 Doris Duke Artist and has twice been awarded Jazz Pianist of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association. He concertizes worldwide as a solo artist, as a collaborator, and with the Fred Hersch Trio. He was a longtime member of the Jazz Studies faculty of New England Conservatory and currently teaches at Rutgers University. He is the subject of the feature documentary The Ballad of Fred Hersch. He lives in New York City and Pennsylvania with his partner, Scott Morgan.
www.fredhersch.com
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