(© Steve JS Herman)
Barely two weeks ago, the pianist Fred Hersch gave yet another master class at the Brussels Conservatory. Soon he will be at Flagey with the bassist John Hébert and the drummer Eric McPherson.
Fred Hersch Trio
CD | Fred Hersch Trio ●●●
Alive at the Vanguard jazz (Palmetto Records/Codaex)
This relatively new trio took shape on the comeback CD Whirl (2010), which was recorded some time after Hersch’s hospitalisation in 2008, when he spent two months in a coma. Even more than on Whirl, their new double CD, which was recorded in the famous jazz club in Greenwich Village, is bursting with life. It opens with the lively Latin vibes of “Havana”, which sound at once light and dark a. New compositions alternate with classic jazz tracks and standards. Bird’s “Segment” sounds hectic and stirring, while Ornette Coleman’s despondent “Lonely Woman” gradually develops more panache and leads into a superb improvisation on “Nardis”. The number, written by Miles Davis, was picked up, memorably, by the pianist Bill Evans – and it is his smaller ensembles that this trio occasionally recalls. Sometimes Hersch grafts his playing onto the melody; sometimes he deliberately keeps it at bay. It is this attraction and repulsion, above all, that these musicians show perfect mastery of.
23/11, 20.15, €13 > 25, Flagey
Alive at the Vanguard jazz (Palmetto Records/Codaex)
This relatively new trio took shape on the comeback CD Whirl (2010), which was recorded some time after Hersch’s hospitalisation in 2008, when he spent two months in a coma. Even more than on Whirl, their new double CD, which was recorded in the famous jazz club in Greenwich Village, is bursting with life. It opens with the lively Latin vibes of “Havana”, which sound at once light and dark a. New compositions alternate with classic jazz tracks and standards. Bird’s “Segment” sounds hectic and stirring, while Ornette Coleman’s despondent “Lonely Woman” gradually develops more panache and leads into a superb improvisation on “Nardis”. The number, written by Miles Davis, was picked up, memorably, by the pianist Bill Evans – and it is his smaller ensembles that this trio occasionally recalls. Sometimes Hersch grafts his playing onto the melody; sometimes he deliberately keeps it at bay. It is this attraction and repulsion, above all, that these musicians show perfect mastery of.
23/11, 20.15, €13 > 25, Flagey
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