{"id":7789,"date":"2016-08-29T18:16:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T01:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7789"},"modified":"2016-08-30T00:35:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T07:35:18","slug":"monday-recommendation-fred-hersch-trio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/08\/monday-recommendation-fred-hersch-trio\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Fred Hersch Trio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fred Hersch<\/strong> Trio, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2c6x98Q\"target=\"_blank\">Sunday Night at the Vanguard<\/a> (Palmetto)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/fredherschtrio_sundaynightatthevillagevanguard_mc.png\" alt=\"fredherschtrio_sundaynightatthevillagevanguard_mc\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/fredherschtrio_sundaynightatthevillagevanguard_mc.png 200w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/fredherschtrio_sundaynightatthevillagevanguard_mc-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/fredherschtrio_sundaynightatthevillagevanguard_mc-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>After all their years together, take it for granted that pianist Hersch, bassist John H\u00c3\u00a9bert and drummer Eric McPherson listen intently to one another and mesh with elegance on every level. However, taking for granted anything about the Hersch trio can only open you up to surprises. Many of the surprises here involve time. There are no Dave Brubeck excursions into 9\/8, Charles Ives flings with 15\/16, or other unconventional time signatures. Instead, Hersch, H\u00c3\u00a9bert and McPherson flex the time, vary it, sometimes improvise with it as surely as they do with harmonic content, and never lose forward motion. Hersch\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Serpentine\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a prime example. The trio\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Village Vanguard playlist contains Thelonious Monk\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We See,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jimmy Rowles\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Peacocks,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Paul McCartney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153For No One,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and among several Hersch compositions a delicious solo piano encore, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Valentine.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Close listening to this album brings great rewards. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fred Hersch Trio, Sunday Night at the Vanguard (Palmetto) After all their years together, take it for granted that pianist Hersch, bassist John H\u00c3\u00a9bert and drummer Eric McPherson listen intently to one another and mesh with elegance on every level. However, taking for granted anything about the Hersch trio can only open you up to [&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-7789","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\/7789","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=7789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}