Brad Mehldau (and sheet music in the SMLPDF)

Brad Mehldau (and sheet music in the SMLPDF)

Brad Mehldau Formation Building A Personal Canon Part One (Book)

Brad Mehldau was born on August 23, 1970, in Jacksonville, Florida and as a child he begins his studies of classical music. Later in the adolescence discovers the sounds of jazz listening to Miles Davis and Bud Powell. He moves to New York where he will study piano with great teachers, including Jimmy Cobb who guessing the talent of the young pianist integrates it into his band: Cobbs’ Mob. His name began to be known internationally as a member of the Quartet of Joshua Redman, with whom he recorded the album: Mood Swing and which he accompanied on tour in the United States and Europe for a year and a half.

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In 1994 he recorded his first album entitled: When I Fall in Love under the name of Mehldau & Rossy Trio for Fresh Sound Records; The following year and already under his personal leadership, he creates his own trio with Larry Grenadier, the double bass, and Jorge Rossy to the battery throwing his debut album as leader: Introduction Brad Mehldau.

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His second album: The Art of the Trio, Volume One (1997, Warner) obtained an impressive reception among critics, which led to extensive international tours. As its own title announced, the first followed between 1997 and 2001 another four volumes of a series that has become in their own right the best piano work of contemporary jazz.

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In 1999, he recorded Eleciac Cycle, a piano job only where Mehldau gave freedom to his composer’s facet with a series of elegies impregnated with classicism and a beautiful and mysterious atmosphere. Next, perhaps the only blur of his career with the album came: Largo (2002), where Mehldau re -lies themes of The Beatles’s repertoire, Antonio Carlos Jobim or Radiohead.

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In 2003, Brad Mehldau recorded that so far is his latest album: Live In Tokyo, an album that reconciles the pianist with his jazz followers and that musically implies a confirmation of the style developed by Mehldau in his work with the trio and especially of work of the work of “Elegiac Cycle”. Live recorded in the mired Tripony Hall in Tokyo, on February 15, 2003, the pianist uses endless sound textures deployed throughout all piano records and even using the pedals.

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Brad Mehldau combines the sophistication of classic learning with a deep jazz sensitivity, influenced by musicians such as Franz Schubert, Keith Jarrett or Bill Evans. His technique, while poetry and lirism that expresses in its interpretations and compositions, has earned unanimous respect and admiration of critics and public. Since the appearance of the first volume of the series “The Art of the Trio” the projection of Brad Mehldau as one of the great musicians appeared in recent times has not ceased to grow by achieving the rare unanimity of criticism and public. The young pianist treasures some of the best qualities of the great teachers, such as that deep containment under which only his technical overwhelming is glimpsed, that which allows him to create an incredible polyphony in the most vibrant moments of his concerts.

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Brad Mehldau’s trio – which seems less exaggerated to place among the best of the last decades in jazz – transmits all kinds of emotions: nostalgia, melancholy, bitterness, excitement, and their albums sometimes reach the sense of the sublime. Mehldau has compared him from the beginning constantly and repeatedly, even with some complaint of the pianist himself, with one of the greatest pianists of all time: Bill Evans. This circumstance, in addition to not adding pressure, has served for fans to see in it, Bill Evans of the 21st century in the jazz piano. History and their music will tell.

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Fordham described Mehldau’s compositions as “miniature tapestries of taut lyricism and surprising turns”. Mehldau himself indicated that some of his compositions address a specific need, such as integrating a particular rhythm into his trio, while others emerge from something he has played while improvising. In the latter case, Mehldau likened the difficulty of the composition process to that of a game of chess: “The opening is always easy for me, the middle gets more difficult, more of an intellectual process, more trial and error at work, and the end is always difficult for me.” These struggles to find satisfactory endings stem from the tension between needing to close a piece and his desire to leave a sense of open-endedness – “an escape duct of possibility”.

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Brad Mehldau discography (on Wikipedia)

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