Direct from the USA , as 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” by The New Yorker. A fourteen-time Grammy nominee, Hersch joins the lineup for the 2019 Guinness Cork Jazz Festival. The Fred hersch Trio performs at The Everyman on 27th October at 8pm.