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Posts Tagged Brad Mehldau

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July 14, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Joshua Redman / Brad Mehldau / Christian McBride / Brian Blade

Joshua Redman / Brad Mehldau / Christian McBride / Brian Blade RoundAgain Nonesuch Go back through your jazz collection and marvel at the “supergroups” – John Coltrane and Miles Davis together, or Coltrane and Monk, Art Blakey tutoring a young Wynton Marsalis, Duke Ellington, Max Roach and Charles Mingus performing together as one of the […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Brad Mehldau, Brian Blade, Christian McBride, Jazz, Joshua Redman, Joshua Redman / Brad Mehldau / Christian McBride / Brian Blade, Nonesuch, Redman/Mehldau/McBride/Blade, RoundAgain, Supergroup, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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May 24, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: I Still Play

Various Artists: I Still Play Nonesuch Records I Still Play is a compilation of brand new solo piano compositions by composers across jazz, classical, pop and experimental (modern) music that have recorded for the Nonesuch Records label. The majority of the works are performed by classical pianist and composer Timo Andres (who also contributes a […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Brad Mehldau, Classical, Compilation, I Still Play, Jeremy Denk, Laurie Anderson, Louis Andriessen, Neo-Classical, Nico Mulhy, Nonesuch Records, Pat Metheny, Philip Glass, Piano, Randy Newman, Steve Reich, Timo Andres, V/A, V/A: I Still Play, Various, Various Artists, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 12, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Brad Mehldau: Mon chien Stupide (Bande originale du film)

Brad Mehldau Mon chien Stupide (Bande originale du film) Same Player Sign me up for the film straight away: A French translation of the John Fante novella (My Dog Stupid from the posthumous collection West of Rome in which a middle-aged couple with marriage troubles have a big ‘Stupid’ dog come between them – written, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], Brad Mehldau, Brad Mehldau: Mon chien Stupide (Bande originale du film), Charlotte Gainsbourg, Film, Instrumental, Jacques Loussier, John Fante, Mon Chien Stupide, Mon chien Stupide (Bande originale du film), Movie, My Dog Stupid, Paul McCartney, Piano, Radiohead, Score, Solo, Soundtrack, The Beatles, West of Rome, Yvan Attal ·

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June 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Joshua Redman Quartet: Come What May  

Joshua Redman Quartet Come What May Nonesuch In the two decades since the Joshua Redman Quartet last recorded together their leader has gone in all directions as featured soloist, cameo artist and collaborator (The Bad Plus, Brad Mehldau) working with tone and timbre to shape his playing and songwriting. 
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Aaron Goldberg, Album Review, Bass, Brad Mehldau, Come What May, Drums, Gregory Hu, Instrumental, Jazz, Joshua Redman, Joshua Redman Quartet, Joshua Redman Quartet: Come What May, Nonesuch, Piano, Quartet, Reuben Rogers, Saxophone, The Bad Plus, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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June 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Brad Mehldau: Finding Gabriel 

Brad Mehldau  Finding Gabriel  Nonesuch  I was so hooked on the early Meldhau work – mostly trio jazz and sometimes some solo piano. And then he toured NZ with his trio and it was…I dunno…it was just boring. It was just exactly as it was meant to be I suppose and yet I somehow wanted more.  He won me back over with his extrapolations […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Brad Mehldau, Brad Mehldau: Finding Gabriel, Finding Gabriel, Funk, Fusion, Jazz, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 6, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

A Bad Gig Can Kill Your Love of Good Music: Time Is The Healer – You Can Find Your Way Back…

Last night I sat down with a good book, a nice drink and a copy of Brad Mehldau’s solo piano record, Live in Tokyo. I loved this album when it was released – nearly ten years ago now. And I loved most things Mehldau was doing or had done – his trio records, solo recordings, […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged A Bad Gig Can Kill Your Love of Good Music, A Bad Gig Can Kill Your Love of Good Music: Time Is The Healer – You Can Find Your Way Back…, Brad Mehldau, Chris Thile, Concert, Gig, Highway Rider, Jazz, Joshua Redman, Live, Live in Tokyo, Mehliana, Piano, Solo PIano, Time Is The Healer - You Can Find Your Way Back…, Trio ·

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October 5, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

Aaron Goldberg: The Now

Aaron Goldberg The Now Sunnyside Records The easy, obvious comparison with Goldberg and his trio (bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Eric Harland, they also work with the great Charles Lloyd) is to Brad Mehldau’s small combo/trio work – tinkering, skittish percussion flirts alongside piano glissando, they so effortlessly, as a group, fall back into the […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Aaron Goldberg, Ahmad Jamal, Album Review, Brad Mehldau, Charles Lloyd, Eric Harland, Jazz, Piano, Reuben Rogers, The Now ·

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October 6, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Mark Guiliana: Beat Music – The Los Angeles Improvisations

Mark Guiliana Beat Music: The Los Angeles Improvisations Beat Music Productions In a huge year for Mark Guiliana, the in-demand drummer, composer, beat-maker has started his own label, continued to guest and collaborate and co-create (including the excellent Taming The Dragon with Brad Mehldau under the name Mehliana) and simultaneously released two albums, two sides […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Beat Music, Beat Music: The Los Angeles Improvisations, Beat-Maker, Brad Mehldau, Drummer, Drums, Mark Guiliana, Mehliana, My Life Starts Now, Taming The Dragon, The Los Angeles Improvisations ·

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May 2, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Brad Mehldau & Mark Guiliana: Mehliana – Taming The Dragon

Brad Mehldau & Mark Guiliana Mehliana: Taming The Dragon Nonesuch I collected up whatever I could find by Brad Mehldau about a decade ago. He was the man. Covers of pop songs, live bop sets, classical noodlings, solo piano, with a trio or quartet – I just kept collecting his records. He couldn’t do anything […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Brad Mehldau, Brad Mehldau & Mark Guiliana, John Zorn, Mark Guiliana, Mehliana, Mehliana: Taming The Dragon, SJD, Taming The Dragon ·

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May 1, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Brad Mehldau Trio: Where Do You Start

Brad Mehldau Trio Where Do You Start Nonesuch There’s something hypnotic in the way Mehldau plays – in that sense I think back to discovering Keith Jarrett. There’s the grace, the slow-build, the confidence. And with Mehldau it’s all built from a steady ostinato – and then he layers across. Gorgeous and charming and so […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Brad Mehldau, Brad Mehldau Trio, Jazz, Piano, Where Do You Start ·

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