“Hersch has remarkably produced a lasting legacy of performances, recordings, and compositions that represent the highest level of musical achievement – works unrivaled in their beauty, imagination, and complexity…a clarity and musical genius of the highest order,” says ALL ABOUT JAZZ. “A pristine pianist with a poet’s soul — a pair of qualities that combine to especially dazzling effect,” raves THE BOSTON GLOBE. “Singular among the trailblazers of their art, a largely unsung innovator of this borderless, individualistic jazz – a jazz for the 21st century – is the pianist and composer Fred Hersch,” states the NEW YORK TIMES (SUNDAY MAGAZINE).
15x-GRAMMY® Award Nominated Jazz Pianist & Composer FRED HERSCH is a 3x-Jazz Journalist Association "Pianist of the Year" (2011, 2016, 2018) and a 3x-Downbeat Critic's Poll "Pianist of the Year" (2015, 2016, 2021). The Fred Hersch Trio was voted the #2 Jazz Group in the 2018 Downbeat Critic's Poll and #1 Jazz Group in the 2019 Downbeat Critic's Poll, recognizing their unique ability to traverse a wide range of styles & approaches while maintaining profound depths of emotion & the exhilarating spark of invention. The WALL STREET JOURNAL calls the Trio "one of the major jazz ensembles of our time." Fred Hersch has regularly garnered jazz's most prestigious awards. THE NEW YORKER calls Hersch "a living legend" while the NEW YORK TIMES says he is "a pianist, composer and conceptualist of rare imaginative power." The LOS ANGELES TIMES calls Hersch "an elegant force of musical invention" and DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE says he is "one of the small handful of brilliant musicians of his generation."