商品簡介
Jazz could not contain Fred Hersch. His 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, and a deep look into the cloistered jazz culture that made such a status both transgressive and groundbreaking. It is a remarkable, at times lyrical evocation of New York in the twilight days of post-Stonewall hedonism, and a powerfully brave narrative of the illness that led to Hersch's two-month-long coma in 2007, from which he would emerge to create some of the finest, most direct and emotionally compelling music of his career.
作者簡介
FRED HERSCH has spent more than three decades as an improviser, composer, educator, bandleader, collaborator, and recording artist. He is an eight-time Grammy Award nominee, and has been hailed by Vanity Fair as "the most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz over the last decade. He is the winner of countless prizes and awards and was the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship in 2003. The first openly gay, HIV-positive jazz musician of note, he has for two decades been a passionate spokesman and fundraiser for AIDS services and education agencies. His latest album, with his trio, is Sunday Night at the Vanguard.
