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Brad Mehldau: Day Is Done
by Michael McCaw
Seldom do musicians rise beyond their peers into a more rarefied air, transversing the ground between player and interpreter to influence standards and the direction where the next steps will go. Rarely, if ever, is this transition actually recorded. Nonetheless, one thing is easily identifiable with Day Is Done: Brad Mehldau has begun the transformation from ...
Live in Tokyo
By Brad Mehldau
Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: 1- Things Behind the Sun (Drake) / 2- Intro (Mehldau) / 3- Someone to Watch Over Me (Gershwin/Gershwin) / 4- From This Moment On (Porter) / 5- Monk's Dream (Monk) / 6- Paranoid Android (Yorke/O'Brein/Greenwood/Greenwood/Selway) / 7- How Long Has This Been Going On? (Gershwin/Gershwin) / 8- River Man (Drake).
Brad Mehldau Trio: Day Is Done
by Andrew Velez
Since the early '90s, Brad Mehldau's considerable output has most consistently been in the trio format. Especially notable were the five volumes of The Art of the Trio. Making his debut here with the new unit is drummer Jeff Ballard, who replaces Jorge Rossy; Larry Grenadier holds down his accustomed spot on bass. This is “friendly ...
Brad Mehldau Trio: Day is Done
by John Kelman
Sometimes it's not a good idea to mess with a good thing. Pianist Brad Mehldau's trio has remained stable since emerging on the scene in the mid-1990s, giving it time to evolve and establish the kind of chemistry that's only possible with a long-term relationship. But as freshly innovative as albums including his five memorable Art ...
Brad Mehldau: Live in Tokyo
by Peter Aaron
Detractors of pianist Brad Mehldau say his notoriety is merely a case of arriving at the right the time, of simply being the most visible Bill Evans disciple to come along in thirty-five years. They sometimes add that despite Evans' obvious influence, Mehldau's style owes more to his own European classical background than the late genius's ...
Anything Goes
By Brad Mehldau
Label: Warner Music Group
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Get Happy
2. Dreamsville
3. Anything Goes
4. Tres Palabras
5. Skippy
6. Nearness of You
7. Still Crazy After All These Years
8. Everything in Its Right Place
9. Smile / Brad Mehldau Trio
10. I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
Brad Mehldau: Live in Tokyo
by AAJ Staff
Far be it from me to judge a record by its slipcover, but the photo of Brad Mehldau gracing the jacket of the pianist's new solo CD, Live in Tokyo (arms crossed, head bowed, jet-black background) made my heart sink. For if the prodigiously talented Mehldau has a tragic flaw, it's the self-conscious preciousness that seeps ...
Brad Mehldau's Artful Trio, Live
by R.J. DeLuke
Brad Mehldau continues to refine the art of the jazz trio and in doing so is establishing a cohesiveness and a personal language and sound with his working group that has become as identifiable as other great trios like Keith Jarrett's, or like the late, great Bill Evans sustained during his career.Whether one believes his ...
Brad Mehldau: Live in Tokyo
by Doug Collette
With boundless energy and seemingly endless imagination, Brad Mehldau has evolved into one of the most prolific jazz musicians in the world today. Little surprise then, that a little over six months after the latest release with his trio, we have another sterling piece of work, his first on his new label affiliation. Fans of his ...
Brad Mehldau: Live in Tokyo
by John Kelman
In the ten years since pianist Brad Mehldau began recording as a leader, starting with '95's Introducing Brad Mehldau , he has emerged as a singular voice with not only a specific vision on his instrument, but also some fairly hefty philosophies which have been detailed in lengthy liner notes on many of his releases. But ...
