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Jazz cannot contain Fred Hersch. Hersch's prodigious talent as a sideman - a pianist who used the giants of the 20th century in the autumn of their careers, including Fine art Farmer and Joe Henderson - blossomed further in the '80s and beyond into a compositional genius that defied the limitations of bop, sweeping in elements of pop, traditional, and folk to create a wholly songs. Good Things Happen Gradually is his memoir. It's the account of the first openly gay, HIV-positive jazz player; a profound look into the cloistered jazz culture that made such a position both transgressive and groundbreaking; and a deep exploration of how Hersch's two-month-long coma in 2007 resulted in his creating some of the finest, most direct, and most emotionally convincing music of his profession. Remarkable and sometimes lyrical, Good Things Happen Gradually can be an evocation of the twilight of post-Stonewall New York and a powerfully fearless narrative of condition, recovery, music, imagination, and the glorious compensation of finally becoming oneself.
