Fred Hersch Trio - Jazz sous les pommiers 2017.

Format:

Video

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States and Canada.

Americans.

Music festivals.

Musical performances.

Jazz music.

Jazz Sous les Pommiers Festival.

Local Subjects:

United States and Canada.

Americans.

Music festivals.

Musical performances.

Jazz music.

Jazz Sous les Pommiers Festival.

Genre:

Performance

Physical Description:

1 online resource (62 minutes)

Other Title:

Fred Hersch Trio - Live at Jazz sous les Pommiers Festival

Place of Publication:

Paris, Ile-de-France : Qwest TV, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

In French.

Original language in English.

Original language in French.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

The 2017 Jazz sous les Pommiers Festival in Coutances, in the Manche département, features the American Fred Hersch trio. The band is celebrating the release of their album Sunday Night at the Vanguard. That name, a reference to the outstanding 1961 Bill Evans album featuring Scott LaFaro and Paul Motian, takes us to one of the world’s most famous jazz institutions: The Village Vanguard; and we are right in the heart of the West Village, in New York City. It’s in that very venue, a basement with red and green walls filled with photos of jazz luminaries the likes of Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman, that both albums were recorded live. The Hersch trio and the Coutances concert are all about complicity and creativity. It’s been almost ten years since the fine trio was created. Hersch, a breathtaking composer and player, has been living with Aids since the mid 1980s; but that has not stopped him from being Brad Mehldau’s professor. The trio format suits him well, as his music is most intimate. His bass player John Hebert, originally from New Orleans, has been living in New York City since the mid 1990s. His drummer, Eric McPherson, has played with Jackie McLean, Pharoah Sanders and Jason Moran. The three inseparable and precise players play freely while also taking musical risks. And in the process, they pay tribute to eclectic composers such as Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins or Paul McCartney. And the Coutances concert is ultimately a moving voyage into the heart of the American jazz tradition; that influence on the pianist can be fully fathomed in “Good Things Happen Slowly,” Hersch’s 2017 excellent memoir, which was published the same year as the Coutances concert. Emilie Pons

Notes:

Performed Théâtre Municipal de Coutances

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