Research Catalog

Title

Good things happen slowly : a life in and out of jazz / Fred Hersch.

Author

Hersch, Fred

Publication

• New York : Crown Archetype, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Description

x, 307 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 23 cm

Summary

"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."--Jacket.

Subject

• Hersch, Fred
• Pianists > United States > Biography
• Jazz musicians > United States > Biography
• Composers > United States > Biography
• AIDS (Disease) > Patients > United States > Biography
• Gay musicians > United States > Biography
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Composers & Musicians
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > LGBT
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Personal Memoirs
• AIDS (Disease) > Patients
• Composers
• Gay musicians
• Jazz musicians
• United States

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Autobiographies.
• Autobiographies

Bibliography (note)

• Discography: pages 301-305.
• Includes discography (pages 301-305).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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
• 1101904348

LCCN

^^2017028036

OCLC

• 990777321
• SCSB-10276341

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library