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Brad Mehldau Trio - Live

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Artist: Brad Mehldau Trio
Edition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2008-03-25
Music Label: Nonesuch
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Introduction
  2. Wonderwall
  3. Ruby's Rub
  4. O Que Ser?
  5. B-Flat Waltz
  6. Black Hole Sun
  7. Very Thought of You
Music CD 2
  1. Buddha Realm
  2. Fit Cat
  3. Secret Beach
  4. C.T.A.
  5. More Than You Know
  6. Countdown

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Free Music Review: Continuing Evolution
Hit: 5 Stars

Brad Mehldau continues to evolve and refine his unique harmonic vocabulary. I am reminded of how obscure Coltrane sounded to me when I first began listening to him. He didn't fit into my preconceived ideas about jazz. He lacked the slickness of bird and sounded raw and naked in comparison. Brad departs into his own intellectual realm and it is up to the listener to follow. If there is another voice in jazz as singular, I haven't heard him. This CD may take a few listens to appreciate, but it is worth the effort.

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The dozen tracks on this double-disc set, produced by Mehldau, were recorded at the Village Vanguard over four evenings, from
October 11 to October 15, 2006. New York Times critic Nate Chinen was there on opening night and called the set a marvel of concentration and restraint...On a brisk new original called Ruby's Rub, the trio applied a simmering heat of the sort that once
propelled Miles Davis s mid-1960's rhythm section, which featured Herbie Hancock on piano and Tony Williams on drums. Mr. Mehldau
soloed judiciously, leaving plenty of space between one phrase and the next. Each opening was an opportunity for Mr. Ballard, whose
responses indicated a thoughtful rigor. The other new piece Buddha Realm, an anagram of Mr. Mehldau's name had a similarly
investigative quality. Mr. Grenadier provided its anchor, a one-note ostinato. Confident in this mooring, Mr. Mehldau opted for a floating
sensibility in his solo, along with some unforced ambidexterity.
Brad Mehldau Trio Live opens with a cover of Wonderwall, from the nineties Brit-pop band Oasis, and concludes with a rendition of
John Coltrane s Countdown. In between, Mehldau and his cohorts radically and elegantly reinterpret bossa nova (Chico Buarque's
O Que Sera ), Seattle grunge (Soundgarden s Black Hole Sun ) and Tin Pan Alley (the 1929 classic More Than You, featured in Barbra
Streisand s Funny Lady). The trio also offers its own version of Mehldau's Secret Beach, which first appeared on Metheny /Mehldau
Quartet. (That disc, released in 2007, contains tracks cut live in the studio with guitarist Pat Metheny in December 2005). The Brad
Mehldau Trio launches its 2008 North American tour in late January with a six-night return to the Village Vanguard. The first leg of the
tour runs through June, with a brief overseas trip in March for dates in France and Eastern Europe, including an evening at the Tchaikovsky
Concert Hall in Moscow.
The original Brad Mehldau Trio, with the rhythm section of bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy, played together for nearly
a decade, and released two acclaimed live Art of the Trio sets for Warner Bros., recorded at Mehldau's regular haunt in Manhattan, the
Village Vanguard. After Rossy retired from the combo, Mehldau introduced a new lineup, featuring drummer Jeff Ballard, on his 2005
Nonesuch disc, Day Is Done. The revamped trio s debut studio recording wound up on many critics year-end best-of lists. All About Jazz
declared, There s no better scenario than having Jeff Ballard take Jorge Rossy's place in the trio s drum chair... Ballard is every bit as
experienced, open, and on fire as Mehldau and bassist Larry Grenadier. Pop Matters called the album the Mehldau Trio's most
aggressive and vibrant studio effort to date.

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