Jazz Articles about Brad Mehldau

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Live Review

Brad Mehldau Trio Groovin' High at SFJAZZ

by Roy Strassman
April 26, 2025

Brad Mehldau Trio SFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA April 3, 2025 SFJAZZ Center honored the Bay Area's jazz fans with the Brad Mehldau-Christian McBride-Marcus Gilmore trio, in town for a four-night run from April 3-6, 2025. Opening night was a real treat for the ear, eye, and soul. Casually dressed, the players took the stage, exuding a quiet confidence characteristic of master musicians. The set opened with Mehldau's catchy “26," which swung and ...

Album Review

Kurt Rosenwinkel: The Next Step Band (Live at Smalls, 1996)

Read "The Next Step Band (Live at Smalls, 1996)" reviewed by Vic Albani

by Vic Albani
April 15, 2025

Nel lontano 2001 la Verve pubblicò The Next Step, vale a dire il quarto album di Kurt Rosenwinkel in qualità di leader. Il disco del celebrato chitarrista di Filadelfia venne poi votato dalla rivista Jazz Times come “il disco jazz più importante e influente del XXI secolo," poiché, si legge “The Next Step ha mandato onde d'urto in una comunità musicale esigente e ossessionata dall'innovazione e ha definito un nuovo movimento e una nuova direzione per un'intera generazione di aspiranti ...

Building a Jazz Library

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 ...

Radio & Podcasts

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 ...

Interview

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. ...

Album Review

Chris Potter: Eagle's Point

Read "Eagle's Point" reviewed by Chris May

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 ...

Play This!

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 ...