The Fred Hersch Trio has been played on NTS shows including Phil's Jazz Dis-Junction, with Arcata (For Esperanza) first played on 6 August 2014.

A select member of jazz’s piano pantheon, Fred Hersch is a pervasively influential creative force who has shaped the music’s course over more than three decades as an improviser, composer, educator, bandleader, collaborator and recording artist. He has been proclaimed “the most arrestingly innovative pianist in jazz over the last decade” by Vanity Fair, “an elegant force of musical invention” by The L.A. Times, and “a living legend” byThe New Yorker.

A fifteen-time Grammy nominee, Hersch has regularly garnered jazz’s most prestigious…