Brad Mehldau

One of the most acclaimed pianists of his era, Brad Mehldau is a virtuoso performer with an hearing for deeply nuanced, harmonically sophisticated acoustic jazz. While Mehldau is among the even more absorbing and thoughtful professionals within that idiom, he’s also receptive to the thought of using material from your rock period (Paul McCartney’s “Blackbird,” for instance). Though Mehldau’s teaching is primarily traditional, his desire for jazz started early. He performed in the Hall SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL jazz music group in Hartford, Connecticut, earning the Berklee University of Music’s Greatest All-Around Musician Honor while still in his junior 12 months of senior high school. He analyzed jazz at New York’s New College for Social Study under Fred Hersch, Junior Mance, Kenny Werner, and Jimmy Cobb. Cobb quickly hired him to try out in his music group, Cobb’s Mob, and Mehldau also performed and recorded using the Joshua Redman Quartet before developing his personal trio in 1994 and documenting his 1st Warner Bros. recording, Introducing Brad Mehldau, in 1995. Artwork from the Trio, Vol. 1 adopted in 1997, with another two quantities in the series showing up over the next months. 2 yrs later, Mehldau came back with Elegiac Routine, aswell as Art from the Trio, Vol. 4: Back again in the Vanguard. Locations adopted in 2000, comprising all-original compositions concentrating on numerous cities, therefore the title from the recording. Another Art from the Trio recording arrived in 2001, however the most significant discharge was Largo, which documented Mehldau executing with other groupings beyond his normal trio format. This is a noticable change from his prior work, and provided brand-new issues as he modified to many interesting lineup circumstances. Mehldau implemented the genre-bending record using the standards-based Anything Runs and Reside in Tokyo in 2004, with Time IS PERFORMED arriving the next season. In 2006, he released Home on Hill aswell as Like Sublime, the last mentioned with soprano vocalist Renée Fleming on non-esuch Records. Mehldau thought we would use his trio plus Pat Metheny on Quartet in 2007; he implemented it up using the double-disc Reside in 2008, that was recorded along with his trio on the Community Vanguard. This year 2010, Mehldau surfaced using the ambitious Highway Rider, a double-disc of 15 brand-new compositions made by Jon Brion. He utilized his trio aswell as drummer Matt Chamberlain, saxophonist Joshua Redman, and a little chamber orchestra led by Dan Coleman. Mehldau organized and orchestrated all of the music. Also this year 2010, Mehldau was honored by Carnegie Hall when he was called the initial jazz artist to carry the Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Seat for the 2010-2011 period. In 2011, Mehldau made an appearance on two live albums, his very own Reside in Marciac as well as the ECM day Live at Birdland (documented in ’09 2009) with saxophonist Lee Konitz, bassist Charlie Haden, and drummer Paul Motian. In Sept of that 12 months, non-esuch also released a studio room recording, Contemporary Music, a cooperation between Mehldau, pianist Kevin Hays, and composer/arranger Patrick Zimmerli. The music upon this arranged comprised music by each one of the principals, aswell as compositions by Ornette Coleman, Steve Reich, and Philip Cup. On Dec 6, 2011, while Mehldau was at the start of a global tour, Nonesuch released a box established entitled Art from the Trio Recordings: 1996–2001. The established contains the five Artwork from the Trio albums — the final a double disk — which were originally released on Warner Bros. The container also included a seventh disc of previously unreleased materials from shows on the Community Vanguard in 1997, 1999, and 2001. A season afterwards, the Brad Mehldau Trio released two studio room albums using the all-original Ode and a partner assortment of cover music, Where Do YOU BEGIN. The pianist after that joined drummer/electronicist Tag Guiliana for the duo’s collaborative 2014 work, Mehliana: Taming the Dragon. The container established 10 Years Single Live made an appearance in 2015 and highlighted solo shows Mehldau had provided in European countries in the preceding 10 years. He then came back to his tried-and-tested trio of Larry Grenadier and Jeff Ballard for 2016’s Blues and Ballads, an record that highlighted their careful collective contact on compositions by Cole Porter, Charlie Parker, Lennon/McCartney, as well as others. Also in 2016, the pianist became a member of longtime associate saxophonist Joshua Redman for the Grammy-nominated duo recording Nearness. The next year, he combined with intensifying bluegrass celebrity Chris Thile for the non-esuch work Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau.