Fred Hersch. (2017). Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life In and Out of Jazz. Crown.

Fred Hersch. 2017. Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life In and Out of Jazz. Crown.

Fred Hersch, Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life In and Out of Jazz. Crown, 2017.

Fred Hersch. Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life In and Out of Jazz. Crown, 2017.

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   • bioText: Jazz pianist, composer, activist, and educator FRED HERSCH is a ten-time Grammy nominee and the recipient of a 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship in Composition. He was named a 2016 Doris Duke Artist and has twice been awarded Jazz Pianist of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association. He concertizes worldwide as a solo artist, as a collaborator, and with the Fred Hersch Trio. He was a longtime member of the Jazz Studies faculty of the New England Conservatory and now teaches at Rutgers University. He is the subject of the feature documentary The Ballad of Fred Hersch. He lives in New York City and Pennsylvania with his partner, Scott Morgan.
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Jazz could not contain Fred Hersch.
Hersch’s prodigious talent as a sideman—a pianist who played with the giants of the twentieth century in the autumn of their careers, including Art Farmer and Joe Henderson—blossomed further in the eighties and beyond into a compositional genius that defied the boundaries of bop, sweeping in elements of pop, classical, and folk to create a wholly new music.
Good Things Happen Slowly is his memoir. It’s the story of the first openly gay, HIV-positive jazz player; a deep look into the cloistered jazz culture that made such a status both transgressive and groundbreaking; and a profound exploration of how Hersch’s two-month-long coma in 2007 led to his creating some of the finest, most direct, and most emotionally compelling music of his career.
Remarkable, and at times lyrical, Good Things Happen Slowly is an evocation of the twilight of Post-Stonewall New York, and a powerfully brave narrative of illness, recovery, music, creativity, and the glorious reward of finally becoming oneself.

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   • source: Billy Collins, former U.S. Poet Laureate
   • content: "Hersch brilliantly captures the spontaneity and sensitivity required to play jazz at the highest level, perhaps best expressed by one of his mentors, saxophonist Joe Henderson: 'If you feel it, it's right. If you think it, it's probably not right.'... One of the most honest and moving memoirs ever written by a jazz musician."
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   • source: Gary Giddins, author of Visions of Jazz and Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams
   • content: "A revelatory memoir."
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   • content: "Again and again, Mr. Hersch shares details--about drugs or sex or the music life--that others might have held back. Yet that raw honesty and immediacy is probably why so many of us find his music so compelling. By the same token, that's why this book earns a place as one of the great contemporary jazz memoirs."
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     July 3, 2017
     Jazz pianist and composer Hersch recalls his struggle to live in society as a gay man, as well as his battles with AIDS, in this honest and well-wrought memoir. Hersch looks back on his closeted, musically precocious youth; his emergence on the jazz and gay scenes in 1970s New York, two lives that he kept separate because of homophobia in the jazz community; and his later career as a headline performer, Grammy-nominated recording artist, and AIDS activist. Hersch comes across as complex: he’s insecure about his attractiveness, his jazz chops, and even his family standing; he felt sorely aggrieved that his parents bought him, at age 11, a mere Baldwin grand piano instead of a Steinway; and he’s admittedly paranoid, as when he detected a homophobic slur when a glowing New Yorker review referred to his playing as “light-fingered.” Hirsch wonderfully captures the experience of ensemble-jazz improvisation—“It’s almost sex”—as well as the colorful characters throughout, but sometimes he gets bogged down in the itinerary of gigs and recording sessions that is a jazz musician’s life. Hersch’s narrative really grips during his agonizing recovery from a two-month, near-death coma resulting from AIDS complications, an ordeal that lends depth and pathos to this candid memoir. Photos.

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     How do you label someone like Fred Hersch? You can't. He's too many things. He's a world-class jazz performer, whose 48th (or is it 49th?) album appears this fall. He's an award-winning composer, whose pieces spread roots beyond jazz to classical, folk, and world music. If not the first jazz artist to come out, he's certainly the best known. Other jazz musicians have looked to him for support. HIV positive since 1995, he has been a vocal and effective activist for AIDS-related causes. In 2008, he suffered HIV-induced dementia. The following year, he was in a coma for two months after contracting a particularly virulent and drug-resistant form of pneumonia. He had to retrain his body afterward: at first, he couldn't walk, much less play piano. He discusses his life and feelings with candor, intelligence, and humility in this exceptionally readable autobiography. Particularly interesting are his descriptions of growing up in Cincinnati and what it was like to make his first forays into the overtly homophobic world of 1980s jazz. VERDICT It is hard to leave this book without liking its author. This admirable memoir could be a sleeper.--David Keymer, Cleveland

     Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     How do you label someone like Fred Hersch? You can't. He's too many things. He's a world-class jazz performer, whose 48th (or is it 49th?) album appears this fall. He's an award-winning composer, whose pieces spread roots beyond jazz to classical, folk, and world music. If not the first jazz artist to come out, he's certainly the best known. Other jazz musicians have looked to him for support. HIV positive since 1995, he has been a vocal and effective activist for AIDS-related causes. In 2008, he suffered HIV-induced dementia. The following year, he was in a coma for two months after contracting a particularly virulent and drug-resistant form of pneumonia. He had to retrain his body afterward: at first, he couldn't walk, much less play piano. He discusses his life and feelings with candor, intelligence, and humility in this exceptionally readable autobiography. Particularly interesting are his descriptions of growing up in Cincinnati and what it was like to make his first forays into the overtly homophobic world of 1980s jazz. VERDICT It is hard to leave this book without liking its author. This admirable memoir could be a sleeper.--David Keymer, Cleveland

     Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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Good Things Happen Slowly is his memoir. It’s the story of the first openly gay, HIV-positive jazz player; a deep look into the cloistered jazz culture that made such a status both transgressive and groundbreaking; and a profound exploration of how Hersch’s two-month-long coma in 2007 led to his creating some of the finest, most direct, and most emotionally compelling music of his career.
Remarkable, and at times lyrical, Good Things Happen Slowly is an evocation of the twilight of Post-Stonewall New York, and a powerfully brave...

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