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Fred Hersch

An innovative, unusually expressive pianist and eloquent composer, Fred Hersch has also made a considerable mark as an educator and as jazz's first openly gay, HIV positive artist, unafraid to voice his opinions, campaigning passionately and fund-raising for AIDS charities. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio on October 21, 1955, his dramatic life was portrayed in his 2017 autobiography Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life in and Out of Jazz and the 2016 feature film The Ballad of Fred Hersch. A child prodigy, he was playing piano by the age of four and composing his own tunes by the time he w...