11 albums as leader and 108 as sideman (1979–2025), each listed chronologically.
ETC, Steve LaSpina, Fred Hersch, Jeff Hirshfield + Jerry Bergonzi
1993 · Red Record
Mary Cleere Haran
1994 · Varèse Sarabande
Georges Delerue, François Truffaut, Hugh Wolff Conducts The London Sinfonietta
1997 · Nonesuch
1996 · Passion Flower-The Music Of Billy Strayhorn and 3 more
By 1979 Fred Hersch had no records under his own name. On Yama that year he turns up as a mid-twenties unknown in the small print of a date led by two established horn players — years before anyone bought a record for his name.
2014 · My Coma Dreams and 3 more
In 2014, bassist John Hebert appeared on Fred Hersch's My Coma Dreams, not a conventional trio record but a staged piece in which an actor re-enacts the hallucinations Hersch experienced during a real, medically induced coma in 2008.
1991 · Forward Motion and 2 more
Tom Rainey's name now travels with free improvisation. But the paper trail here runs the other way: from Forward Motion (1991) to Passion Flower (1996), it is mostly standards work in Fred Hersch's group — the avant-garde drummer's documented decade is a piano trio.
