Jazz Articles about Brad Mehldau

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Radio & Podcasts

Jazz Hybrids by Brad Mehldau, Frank Zappa and Others

by Jerome Wilson
May 27, 2022

This program looks at jazz mixed with rock in various ways, whether it's called jazz-rock, fusion, prog rock, jazz-funk, trip-hop or something else. The artists heard on the show include Brad Mehldau, Donald Fagen, Frank Zappa, Joe Zawinul and the Keef Hartley Band. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Zony Mash “Tekufah" from Voices in the Wilderness (Tzadik) 01:06 ...

Live Review

Bergamo Jazz Festival 2022 Parte seconda: la Città Bassa

by Libero Farnè
March 29, 2022

Bergamo Varie sedi 17-20.3.2022 Il ricco palinsesto di Bergamo Jazz 2022 ha distribuito proposte non meno interessanti e variate negli spazi della Città Bassa. I due concerti all'Auditorium di Piazza della Libertà hanno racchiuso i progetti di due formazioni europee, entrambi attuali e rilevanti. Sarebbe semplicistico sostenere che la musica del chitarrista danese Jakob Bro, affiancato dai sodali Arve Henriksen alla tromba ed elettronica e Jorge Rossy alla batteria, incarni uno spirito nordico, un'atmosfera scandinava silenziosa ...

Radio & Podcasts

Happy Birthday, Cole Porter

by Russell Perry
June 8, 2021

We are celebrating Cole Porter's 130th birthday—born June 9, 1891, This means that Porter was 27 years old, having already had shows produced on Broadway, when the first jazz recording was made in 1917. Early recordings by James P. Johnson, Jimmie Lunceford, Teddy Wilson and Django Reinhardt showed the adaptability of his compositions to the jazz before Artie Shaw's landmark recording of “Begin the Beguine" in 1938. Today his beautiful melodies, compelling harmonies and clever lyrics explain his enduring appeal. ...

Live Review

Brad Mehldau Trio Live At The Konzerthaus

by Friedrich Kunzmann
June 2, 2021

Brad Mehldau Trio Konzerthaus Vienna May 26, 2021 After the prolonged dry spell of concert-less months owing to the Covid Pandemic, pretty much any live music was likely to attract an audience to the Konzerthaus in Vienna to experience the magic of space and sound in person, and in real-time once again. The fact that Brad Mehldau's trio would be one of the first acts re-opening the long-awaited Austrian live season only made that ...

Profile

Moers Provides a Festival Blueprint for the Future

by Phillip Woolever
May 20, 2021

Germany's Moers Festival has a long-standing reputation for expanding the boundaries of top-quality musical formats. Performance scope and content is always unique, but last year's 2020 edition provided even more noteworthy distinction than usual. That truly exceptional pandemic production featured typically abundant instrumental, vocal and electronics highlights but more important, even at a greatly reduced scale, the live scene at Moers offered a bright ray of hope at a time Covid-19 was upending life as we knew it.

Album Review

Joshua Redman + Brad Mehldau + Christian McBride + Brian Blade: RoundAgain

Read "RoundAgain" reviewed by Pat Youngspiel

by Pat Youngspiel
October 14, 2020

None of these men requires introducing to anyone who has even remotely followed the contemporary jazz scene at any point over the past thirty years. Their respective bodies of work have guided and represented jazz throughout the last decades and continue to set the benchmark for original composing and improvising today. 26 years after their much-lauded debut, Moodswing (Warner Bros., 1994) as the Joshua Redman Quartet, they've reconvened for a second set of music which sounds just as fresh today ...

Album Review

Joshua Redman: RoundAgain

Read "RoundAgain" reviewed by Robert Middleton

by Robert Middleton
August 2, 2020

A return to the quartet from saxophonist Joshua Redman's Moodswing (Warner Bros., 1994). Yes, 26 years has passed. A great album a generation ago. RoundAgain is a reunion of masters: Redman with pianist Brad Mehldau, bassist Christian McBride and drummer Brian Blade. Each at the very top of their games and their respective domains. Sax, piano, bass, and drums. Holy shit, could you assemble a band better than this one? Modern masters, now in their middle years (50's) are ...