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Fred Hersch = Lebron James?
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Inverted Garden by Eric Benson
Fred at the piano is like LeBron James on the basketball court. He's perfection. – Jason Moran
David Hajdu's recent New York Times Magazine profile of pianist Fred Hersch is an odd amalgam of hyperbolic praise (above), made-up trends ("A new movement in jazz has surfaced over the past few years—a wave of highly expressive music more concerned with emotion than with craft or virtuosity"), and out-of-the-blue pot-shots ("Fred's ego is enormous.") That said, there's a pretty moving ...
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