Hersch Fred 1955 (1 results)

Hersch, Fred, 1955-. Good things happen slowly: a life in and out of jazz. New York: Crown Archetype, 2017, stated First Edition, with 1st printing number line, x, 307pp., very good dust-jacket with lightly rubbed corners, cover price $28.00, very good black hardcover. INSCRIBED on title page for recipient with first name only, Enjoy, and SIGNED Fred Hersch. "Good Things Happen Slowly is (Fred Hersch's) 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 ground-breaking; 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."-- CONTENTS: Machine generated contents note: 1. Short Arms -- 2. Diminuendo and Crescendo -- 3. Boston -- 4. Bradley's -- 5. Rollerena's World -- 6. Sideman -- 7. Classic Sound -- 8. Horizons -- 9. Out -- 10. Dancing In the Dark -- 11. Acting Out and Activism -- 12. Nonesuch -- 13. A Wish -- 14. Scott -- 15. Madness -- 16. Coma -- 17. Better -- 18. Together and Alone. ISBN 9781101904343.…