Brad Mehldau
Brad Mehldau: Beyond The Boundaries Of Jazz
...for this story from All Things Considered will be available at approx. 7:00 p.m. ET On Highway Rider, Brad Mehldau (pictured) and producer Jon Brion reunite for the first time since...
Thom Yorke On Trumpet: Christian Scott And 'The Eraser'
The music of the Radiohead/Yorke camp definitely lends itself to cross-genre interpretations, such as Brad Mehldau's "Paranoid Android" cover, or Christopher O'Reilly's more...
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Album review: Brad Mehldau's 'Highway Rider'
The L.A. Times music blog Let it never be said that Brad Mehldau lacks ambition. The gifted pianist and composer's latest is a reunion with uber-producer Jon Brion and percussion gadfly...
Mehldau’s ‘Rider’ goes nowhere
THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING Sometimes it feels like pianist Brad Mehldau is torn in two directions. Usually he performs in a trio, and most of his albums have been...
"Someone to Watch Over Me," and then the musicians improvise variations based on the chord progression. For Highway Rider, Mehldau says he wanted to tackle theme and variations in a really big way, by starting with something really small: a short musical idea. "That's sort of a two-part theme," Mehldau says, demonstrating by playing on a piano. "It's got one thing and then a reply to it. And that generates a lot of the melodic material on the record - and also, in a different way, it generates tonal relationships on the record."
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CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: A Jazz-Pop Encounter: The Sequel
Jazz News: A Jazz-Pop Encounter: The Sequel BROWS furrowed, Brad Mehldau and Jon Brion wore the same look of concentration here one evening last spring, perched on Aeron chairs in a...
MUSiC: Brad Mehldau and Jon Brion's Jazz-Pop Encounter, the Sequel
...during the making of "Highway Rider," their first collaboration since "Largo" in 2002. BROWS furrowed, Brad Mehldau and Jon Brion wore the same look of concentration here one evening...
Moody project is feeling in the pink
...bassist Dan Berglund, Barb Jungr of The Three Courgettes fame and classically trained wunderkind Brad Mehldau are among the latest gems to emerge from the jazz stable. When Swedish...
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...had the pleasure to play and/or record with many great musicians including Tito Puente, Lionel Hampton, Brad Mehldau, John Patitucci, Larry Goldings, Herb Ellis, Bob Mintzer, and Randy...
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Brad Mehldau: Highway Rider
...in his career with what would ultimately become his five-part Art of the Trio (Warner Bros.) series, Brad Mehldau's side projects have with the exception of the solo Live in Tokyo...
Swinging on the Hudson: An Unlikely Haven for Jazz
...listening. It's not like we're playing at a bar somewhere." Mr. Grenadier's regular gig is with the pianist Brad Mehldau, who has a house nearby in Newburgh, and played the Falcon in its...
CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Lisa Hilton to Release New Album Nuance June 8th
Although she's been favorably compared to Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Horace Silver, Dave Brubeck and Brad Mehldau, Hilton's own sound shimmers naturally throughout. My desire is always...
Kurt Rosenwinkel: Reflections
...rhythmically astute and harmonically exploratory, a talent that he's applied with Mark Turner and Brad Mehldau as well as with hiphop producer Q-Tip. With Reflections, he has reined in...
