Brad Mehldau

Jazz on Soul, Pop, Rock, Folk, And Other Intangible Territories - Part 1

by Artur Moral
September 26, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2Jazz is synonymous with improvisation, but in many cases, it's also about adaptation. This means not just adjusting to new times and social changes, but also frequently reinterpreting songs from its own history and others beyond its vague borders. Here, we present ten highly disparate compositions from different genres, showcasing how they can be transformed in unexpected ways. Artists like Stevie Wonder, ABBA, Rufus Wainwright, and Radiohead will have their works reimagined, sometimes fitting ...

Brad Mehldau, Enrico Pieranunzi, John Ellis, Yuja Wang & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 7, 2024

A playlist mostly dedicated to the cross-pollination between jazz and classical music or opera, with jazz musicians inspired by classical music and classical music composers and pianists nodding to jazz.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 John Ellis Quartet “Gypsy Song" Bizet: Carmen in Jazz (Blue Room Music) 0:16 Host talks 7:25 Yuja Wang “24 Jazz Preludes, Op. 53: No. 11" The Vienna Recital (Deutsche Grammophon) 9:02 Yuja Wang ...

A Conversation with Brad Mehldau

by AAJ Staff
March 19, 2024

This article was first published at All About Jazz in 2002. All About Jazz: Do you recall your first jazz record? Brad Mehldau: I think the first real jazz record I listened to was an Oscar Peterson and Joe Pass duo album, one of those Pablo things. A friend of my father's bought it for me when I was eleven years old. Oscar was really the first guy I really listened to. That was the one. ...

Chris Potter: Eagle's Point

by Chris May
March 3, 2024

The question that comes to mind after listening to Eagle's Point is this: why have the four musicians, who have known each other since the 1990s, never recorded together before? For the combination of Chris Potter, Brad Mehldau, John Patitucci and Brian Blade is a real meeting of minds; the stars are in perfect alignment. Potter's previous release, Got The Keys To The Kingdom (Edition, 2023), was a live set, recorded at New York's Village Vanguard, and ...

Brad Mehldau: Maybe As His Skies Are Wide

by Mike Jacobs
February 26, 2024

Long known for his absolute adventurousness, there isn't much that Brad Mehldau hasn't stylistically encompassed. Still, when the pianist released an exploration of the progressive favorites of his youth,--Jacob's Ladder (Nonesuch, 2022)--the results were like nothing else in his catalog. Among the album's most compelling tracks is the re-envisioning of a single famous melodic line from Rush's classic “Tom Sawyer." Mehldau loops it, reharmonizes it, displaces it rhythmically and improvises over all these newfound twists and turns, creating something truly ...

Big Label Bangers

by Patrick Burnette
September 25, 2023

The boys love chasing after the esoteric, the brand new, the little known. But sometime, we also like to talk about the, well, big label bangers. That is, big labels in jazz terms, which really means small subsidiary branches of huge media conglomerates, but let's not get into that now. Some famous names are back this episode and we talk about their latest releases--sometimes a great deal later than their date of death.Playlist Discussion of Brandee Younger's album ...

Brad Mehldau Live at The Falcon

by Mike Jurkovic
September 7, 2023

Brad Mehldau The Falcon Marlboro, NY August 28, 2023 Twenty four hours after a raucous, spirit raising performance by South African pianist Nduduzo Makhathini and his trio mates, drummer Francisco Mela and bassist Zwelakhe-Duma Bell le Pere the evening began quietly like a haiku. Brad Mehldau thanked his Hudson Valley neighbors, turned, took the bench and let the dimming light of late August shade his summer reflection. The insistent motif of “John Boy" rang out ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Brad Mehldau

Source: Michael Ricci
August 23, 2023

All About Jazz is celebrating Brad Mehldau's birthday today!

Pianist Brad Mehldau has recorded and performed extensively since the early 1990s. Mehldau’s most consistent output over the years has taken place in the trio format. Starting in 1996, his group released a series of five records on Warner Bros. entitled The Art of the Trio. Mehldau also has a solo piano recording entitled Elegiac Cycle, and a record called Places that includes both solo piano and trio songs. Elegiac Cycle ...
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Brad Mehldau & Ian Bostridge Present 'The Folly Of Desire'

Source: Vivo Musique Internationale
May 24, 2023

NEW SONG CYCLE INQUIRING THE LIMITS OF SEXUAL FREEDOM Brad Mehldau presents The Folly of Desire, a song cycle inquiring the limits of sexual freedom in a post-#MeToo political age, together with tenor Ian Bostridge, one of the greatest song interpreters of our times. Setting poetry by Blake, Yeats, Shakespeare, Brecht, Goethe, Auden and Cummings, Mehldau’s music shifts seamlessly between a jazz idiom and Classical art song, and the work explores a theme as timeless as it is topical. The ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Brad Mehldau

Source: Michael Ricci
August 23, 2022

All About Jazz is celebrating Brad Mehldau's birthday today!

Pianist Brad Mehldau has recorded and performed extensively since the early 1990s. Mehldau’s most consistent output over the years has taken place in the trio format. Starting in 1996, his group released a series of five records on Warner Bros. entitled The Art of the Trio. Mehldau also has a solo piano recording entitled Elegiac Cycle, and a record called Places that includes both solo piano and trio songs. Elegiac Cycle ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Brad Mehldau

Source: Michael Ricci
August 23, 2021

All About Jazz is celebrating Brad Mehldau's birthday today!

Pianist Brad Mehldau has recorded and performed extensively since the early 1990s. Mehldau’s most consistent output over the years has taken place in the trio format. Starting in 1996, his group released a series of five records on Warner Bros. entitled The Art of the Trio. Mehldau also has a solo piano recording entitled Elegiac Cycle, and a record called Places that includes both solo piano and trio songs. Elegiac Cycle ...
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'MTB - Consenting Adults,' The Seminal Criss Cross Album Released On 180 Gram Vinyl By Elemental Music

Source: Elemental Music
June 18, 2021

For the first time ever on vinyl, we edited this beautiful Gatefold 2-LP set with High Quality 180 gram Audiophile Vinyl. Recorded at RPM Studio, New York City on December 26, 1994 and mastered for vinyl and lacquer cutting by the great Bernie Grundman Studios. This celebrated release will be available for the second drop of Record Store Day on July 17th. Music writer and regular collaborator at Downbeat and Jazziz, Ted Panken, introduces this seminal Criss Cross album as ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Brad Mehldau

Source: Michael Ricci
August 23, 2020

All About Jazz is celebrating Brad Mehldau's birthday today!

Pianist Brad Mehldau has recorded and performed extensively since the early 1990s. Mehldau’s most consistent output over the years has taken place in the trio format. Starting in 1996, his group released a series of five records on Warner Bros. entitled The Art of the Trio. Mehldau also has a solo piano recording entitled Elegiac Cycle, and a record called Places that includes both solo piano and trio songs. Elegiac Cycle ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Brad Mehldau

Source: Michael Ricci
August 23, 2019

All About Jazz is celebrating Brad Mehldau's birthday today!

Pianist Brad Mehldau has recorded and performed extensively since the early 1990s. Mehldau’s most consistent output over the years has taken place in the trio format. Starting in 1996, his group released a series of five records on Warner Bros. entitled The Art of the Trio. Mehldau also has a solo piano recording entitled Elegiac Cycle, and a record called Places that includes both solo piano and trio songs... Read more. ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Brad Mehldau

Source: Michael Ricci
August 23, 2018

All About Jazz is celebrating Brad Mehldau's birthday today!

Pianist Brad Mehldau has recorded and performed extensively since the early 1990s. Mehldau’s most consistent output over the years has taken place in the trio format. Starting in 1996, his group released a series of five records on Warner Bros. entitled The Art of the Trio. Mehldau also has a solo piano recording entitled Elegiac Cycle, and a record called Places that includes both solo piano and trio songs... Read more. ...
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Brad Mehldau Trio's New Album, "Seymour Reads the Constitution!," Out Now

Source: Nonesuch Publicity
May 20, 2018

Brad Mehldau Trio's new album, Seymour Reads the Constitution!, is out now on Nonesuch Records. The pianist and his longtime trio, which includes drummer Jeff Ballard and bassist Larry Grenadier, perform three Mehldau originals combined with interpretations of pop songs (Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson), jazz tunes (Elmo Hope, Sam Rivers), and one work from the American songbook (Frederick Loewe's “Almost Like Being in Love"). To purchase a copy of Seymour Reads the Constitution!, head to your local record store, iTunes, ...
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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, December 2017

Source: JazzINK by Andrea Canter
December 1, 2017

Our spring-like weather will probably fade into winter— after all, it is winter in Minnesota! But falling temperatures (and perhaps the white stuff too) will be countered by rising heat from both local and visiting jazz artists as we count down 2017. This month we welcome such touring talents as Earl Klugh, Brad Mehldau, Benny Green, Joey DeFrancesco, Bobby Lyle, Chris Speed, John Raymond, and of course, ending the year as well as the original configuration, The Bad Plus. From ...
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