{"id":6928,"date":"2015-09-07T22:17:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T05:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=6928"},"modified":"2015-09-08T00:23:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T07:23:02","slug":"monday-recommendation-fred-hersch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/09\/monday-recommendation-fred-hersch\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Fred Hersch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fred Hersch<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Solo-HERSCH-FRED\/dp\/B010PD9ERQ\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;keywords=fred%20hersch%20solo&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;qid=1441672804&#038;s=music&#038;sr=1-1&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\">Solo<\/a> (Palmetto)<\/p>\n<p>Hersch\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s third Palmetto album since 2008 confirms that the pianist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s strength, subtlety and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Solo-F.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Solo-F.jpg\" alt=\"Solo F\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Solo-F.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Solo-F-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Solo-F-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a> imagination are not only intact but have gained in acuity. There is nothing in this recital to indicate that seven years ago he faced a medical crisis that threatened his mental powers. Recorded in the intimate surrounding of a small church, <em>Solo<\/em> appears nearly 22 years following Hersch\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/fred-hersch-playing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/fred-hersch-playing.jpg\" alt=\"fred-hersch-playing\" width=\"150\" height=\"151\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6930\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/fred-hersch-playing.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/fred-hersch-playing-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>solo album, part of the Maybeck series. His wide expressive range covers the harmonic ingenuity and resourcefulness of his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pastorale,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d dedicated to Robert Schumann, and the potency he pours into Thelonious Monk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In Walked Bud.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  As at Maybeck in 1993, he applies his contrapuntal skill to the Monk classic, but with even greater energy and complexity. His variations on pieces by Jobim, Kern, Tizol, Joni Mitchell, and his own \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Whirl,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d&#8212;dedicated to the ballerina Suzanne Ferrell&#8212;are equally riveting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Hersch, Solo (Palmetto) Hersch\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s third Palmetto album since 2008 confirms that the pianist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s strength, subtlety and imagination are not only intact but have gained in acuity. There is nothing in this recital to indicate that seven years ago he faced a medical crisis that threatened his mental powers. Recorded in the intimate surrounding of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-recommendations","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}