
Alumni
FRED HERSCH - '73 - Good Things Happen Slowly, A Memoir
Words & Music Lecture: Fred Hersch ‘73
Thursday, May 01, 2025 | 6:00pm
The Mercantile Library
414 Walnut Street #1100 Cincinnati, OH 45202
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Good Things Happen Slowly is his 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 groundbreaking; 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.
