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The Brad Mehldau Trio is Mehldau on piano, Larry Grenadier on bass, and Jeff Ballard on drums.","brand":"Nonesuch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46159303868499,"sku":"1715154X","price":22.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/1937\/5187\/files\/3345657_f4016be8-b7a8-4c68-8950-3f8473a4e253.jpg?v=1788618691"},{"product_id":"nearness-075597945607","title":"Nearness","description":"2016 collaboration between saxophonist Joshua Redman and pianist Brad Mehldau. Nearness is a selection of duets recorded live during their recent European tour and the longtime friends' and collaborators' first duo album. Mehldau first came to prominence as a member Redman's quartet in the 1990s before becoming a bandleader himself. The pair first reunited in 2010 when Redman was featured on Mehldau's album Highway Rider. In 2013, Mehldau was featured as a performer and producer on Redman's Walking Shadows. Each artist has recorded extensively for Nonesuch, with a wide variety of collaborators.","brand":"Warner Bros Uk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46159766814803,"sku":"1739120X","price":13.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"seymour-reads-the-constitution-075597934489","title":"Seymour Reads the Constitution","description":"Vinyl LP pressing. 2018 release from the jazz great. On Seymour Reads the Constitution!, Brad Mehldau Trio performs three Mehldau originals combined with interpretations of pop songs (Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson), jazz tunes (Elmo Hope, Sam Rivers), and one work from the American songbook (Frederick Loewe's \"Almost Like Being in Love\"). Brad Mehldau moved to New York City and first came to prominence as a member of current label mate Joshua Redman's quartet in the 1990s before becoming a bandleader himself. His trio, which tours the world extensively, made eight acclaimed recordings for Warner Bros. The pianist's time with Nonesuch has been equally productive.","brand":"Nonesuch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46163487359059,"sku":"2037749X","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/1937\/5187\/files\/3783248.jpg?v=1794028336"},{"product_id":"largo-075597904901","title":"Largo","description":"Double vinyl LP pressing. First time on vinyl!!!This seminal album from the acclaimed Jazz pianist, Brad Mehldau, is being made available on vinyl for the first time, 21 years after it's initial release. The album, which was produced by Jon Brion (Fiona Apple, Mac Miller) experiments with electronic pop instrumentation and studio overdubs, creating a truly unique and stunning release - one that many consider to be one of the best Jazz albums in the past 25 years.","brand":"Nonesuch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46164354400339,"sku":"2566995X","price":37.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/1937\/5187\/files\/4220009_f9d7684e-895e-480e-a131-8ee58ff22c08.jpg?v=1788630724"},{"product_id":"finding-gabriel-075597926361","title":"Finding Gabriel","description":"","brand":"Nonesuch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46166103916627,"sku":"2168037X","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/1937\/5187\/files\/3671852.jpg?v=1793863912"},{"product_id":"seymour-reads-the-constitution-075597934434","title":"Seymour Reads the Constitution","description":"2018 release. On Seymour Reads the Constitution!, Brad Mehldau Trio performs three Mehldau originals combined with interpretations of pop songs (Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson), jazz tunes (Elmo Hope, Sam Rivers), and one work from the American songbook (Frederick Loewe's \"Almost Like Being in Love\"). Brad Mehldau moved to New York City and first came to prominence as a member of current label mate Joshua Redman's quartet in the 1990s before becoming a bandleader himself. His trio, which tours the world extensively, made eight acclaimed recordings for Warner Bros. 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Guest musicians include Ambrose Akinmusire, Sara Caswell, Kurt Elling, Joel Frahm, Mark Guiliana, Gabriel Kahane, and Becca Stevens, among others.","brand":"Nonesuch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46166884876371,"sku":"2168036X","price":11.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/1937\/5187\/files\/3671853.jpg?v=1793862787"},{"product_id":"nearness-075597945614","title":"Nearness","description":"Limited double 140gm vinyl LP pressing in a single pocket jacket with insert and digital download. 2016 collaboration between saxophonist Joshua Redman and pianist Brad Mehldau. Nearness is a selection of duets recorded live during their recent European tour and the longtime friends' and collaborators' first duo album. Mehldau first came to prominence as a member Redman's quartet in the 1990s before becoming a bandleader himself. The pair first reunited in 2010 when Redman was featured on Mehldau's album Highway Rider. In 2013, Mehldau was featured as a performer and producer on Redman's Walking Shadows. Each artist has recorded extensively for Nonesuch, with a wide variety of collaborators.","brand":"Nonesuch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46166914859091,"sku":"1739139X","price":33.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/1937\/5187\/files\/3425935_dada4ac9-92d4-4dca-9feb-00a964f4e290.jpg?v=1788659507"},{"product_id":"apres-faure-075597900859","title":"Apres Faure","description":"Mehldau performs four preludes, from a thirty-seven-year span of Gabriel Fauré's career, as well as a reduction of an excerpt from the Adagio movement of his Piano Quartet in G Minor. Here Mehldau's four compositions that Fauré inspired are presented in a group, sandwiched between two sections featuring the French composer's works. Discussing the Après Fauré album in his note, Mehldau says: \"If the sublime foreshadows our mortality, this music might communicate the austerity of death-Fauré's as it approached him, but also the apprehension of our own. We find a kinship with the composer finally, in the form of a question that he tossed off into the future, to us. I have composed four pieces to accompany Fauré's music here, to share the way I have engaged with Fauré's question, with you, the listener.\"This format is similar to my After Bach project,\" he continues. \"The connections are less overt, but Fauré's harmonic imprint is on all four. There is also a textural influence, in terms of how he presented his musical material pianistically-he exploited the instrument's sonority masterfully, as an expressive means. So, for example, in my first 'Prelude,' melody is welded to a continuous arpeggiation, both part of it and hovering above it; in my 'Nocturne,' it is possible to hear the harkening chordal approach in the opening of Fauré's No. 12.\"","brand":"Nonesuch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46166930980947,"sku":"2635237X","price":11.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/1937\/5187\/files\/4322507_94e5c57d-58be-4cd5-83cb-02e4d7b561e3.jpg?v=1788659509"},{"product_id":"suite-april-2020-075597919288","title":"Suite: April 2020","description":"2020 release. \"Suite: April 2020 is a musical snapshot of life the last month in the world in which we've all found ourselves. I've tried to musically portray on the piano some experiences and feelings that are both new and common to many of us. In \"keeping distance\", for instance, I traced the experience of two people social distancing, represented by the left and right hand - how they are unnaturally drawn apart, yet remain linked in some unexplainable, and perhaps illuminating way. As difficult as Covid-19 has been for many of us, there have been moments of revelation along the way. \"Stopping, listening: hearing\" highlights that moment as well. I've pointed to some of the strong feelings that have arisen the past month or more: \"remembering before all this\" expresses a bittersweet gut-pain that has hit me several times out of the blue, when I think back on how things were even just a few months ago, and how long ago and far away that seems now; \"Uncertainty\" hits on the feeling that can follow right after that - a hollow fear of an unknown future. There's also been a welcome opportunity to connect more deeply with my family than we ever have, because of the abundant time and close proximity. The last three pieces hit on that connection - the harmony we find with each other, making meals together or just horsing around. \"Lullaby\" is for everyone who might find it hard to sleep now. Neil Young's words in \"Don't Let It Bring You Down\" have always been council for me, now more than ever, when he instructs: \"Don't let it bring you down\/It's only castles burning\/Find someone who's turning\/And you will come around. \" Billy Joel's \"New York State of Mind\", a song I've loved since I was 8 years old, is a love letter to a city that I've called my home for years, and that I'm far away from now. I know lots of people there and miss them terribly, and I know how much that great city hurts right now. I also know that it too will come around. \"","brand":"Nonesuch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46166955327571,"sku":"2320934X","price":10.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/1937\/5187\/files\/3848744.jpg?v=1793862782"},{"product_id":"suite-april-2020-075597919448","title":"Suite: April 2020","description":"Vinyl LP pressing. 2020 release. \"Suite: April 2020 is a musical snapshot of life the last month in the world in which we've all found ourselves. I've tried to musically portray on the piano some experiences and feelings that are both new and common to many of us. In \"keeping distance\", for instance, I traced the experience of two people social distancing, represented by the left and right hand - how they are unnaturally drawn apart, yet remain linked in some unexplainable, and perhaps illuminating way. As difficult as Covid-19 has been for many of us, there have been moments of revelation along the way. \"Stopping, listening: hearing\" highlights that moment as well. I've pointed to some of the strong feelings that have arisen the past month or more: \"remembering before all this\" expresses a bittersweet gut-pain that has hit me several times out of the blue, when I think back on how things were even just a few months ago, and how long ago and far away that seems now; \"Uncertainty\" hits on the feeling that can follow right after that - a hollow fear of an unknown future. There's also been a welcome opportunity to connect more deeply with my family than we ever have, because of the abundant time and close proximity. The last three pieces hit on that connection - the harmony we find with each other, making meals together or just horsing around. \"Lullaby\" is for everyone who might find it hard to sleep now. Neil Young's words in \"Don't Let It Bring You Down\" have always been council for me, now more than ever, when he instructs: \"Don't let it bring you down\/It's only castles burning\/Find someone who's turning\/And you will come around. \" Billy Joel's \"New York State of Mind\", a song I've loved since I was 8 years old, is a love letter to a city that I've called my home for years, and that I'm far away from now. I know lots of people there and miss them terribly, and I know how much that great city hurts right now. I also know that it too will come around. \"","brand":"Nonesuch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46166956048467,"sku":"2320917X","price":28.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/1937\/5187\/files\/3848743.jpg?v=1793863904"},{"product_id":"after-bach-ii-075597900774","title":"After Bach II","description":"Brad Mehldau \/ AFTER BACH II - The album comprises four preludes and one fugue from J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, as well as the Allemande from Partita for Keyboard No. 4 in D Major, interspersed with seven compositions or improvisations by Mehldau inspired by the complementary works of the Baroque master-including his Variations on Bach's Goldberg Theme. Mehldau, speaking of the \"universality\" of Bach's music, says in his liner note: \"The more you try to engage with him, the more your own personality becomes visible, unavoidably. You are not playing Bach-Bach is playing you, in the sense that he lays you bare... The greatest choice you make at all times is not out of an absence, but from what is there, in it's totality. Specifically, it is the constant choice you make in how to negotiate between harmony and melody.\"He continues, \"This is why Bach is a model for me as a jazz musician. In my improvised solos, I want to make melodic phrases that carry harmonic implication, and create harmony that moves in a melodic fashion. This is a crucial component in the storytelling.\" After Bach II follows 2018's After Bach album, which originated in a work Mehldau first performed in 2015-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, The Royal Conservatory of Music, The National Concert Hall, and Wigmore Hall-called Three Pieces After Bach.","brand":"Nonesuch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46167796056147,"sku":"2635289X","price":11.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/1937\/5187\/files\/4322506_25fd7b3b-cb20-4816-a756-cf4d32867e13.jpg?v=1788675081"},{"product_id":"ride-into-the-sun-075597896206","title":"Ride Into The Sun","description":"Nonesuch Records releases pianist and composer Brad Mehldau's Ride into the Sun-a songbook recordof music by the late singer, songwriter, and guitarist Elliott Smith. Featured musicians include singer\/guitarist Daniel Rossen (Grizzly Bear); singer\/mandolinist Chris Thile (Punch Brothers, NickelCreek); bassists Felix Moseholm (Brad Mehldau Trio) and John Davis; drummer Matt Chamberlain (FionaApple, Tori Amos, Randy Newman, etc.); and a chamber orchestra led by Dan Coleman. Ride into the Sun's ten Elliott Smith songs are complemented by four Mehldau compositions that he says are \"inspired by, and reflect, Smith's oeuvre.\" Also included are interpretations of Big Star's \"Thirteen,\" which Smith also covered, and \"Sunday\" by Nick Drake, who Mehldau says, \"I look at in some ways assort of Smith's visionary godfather.\" Recalling how he first got to know Smith and his music, which has been a regular part of his repertoire for years, Mehldau said that after years living in New York, he moved to Los Angeles \"and there was this wonderful scene of singer-songwriters that was congregating at a club called Largo. That included Elliott but it also included artists like Rufus Wainwright, Fiona Apple. And then other musicians who had been around for a while would come down every Friday night to sit in on a gig that was led by Jon Brion. I played behind Elliott on his own tunes with Jon. It felt to me like a kind of renaissance in songwriting that flourished for a number of years.\"","brand":"Nonesuch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46167878598739,"sku":"2726446X","price":11.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/1937\/5187\/files\/4433431_fc30d347-d36f-48e1-af41-6476f6290b4a.jpg?v=1788675132"},{"product_id":"ride-into-the-sun-075597896220","title":"Ride Into The Sun","description":"Double vinyl LP pressing. Nonesuch Records releases pianist and composer Brad Mehldau's Ride into the Sun-a songbook recordof music by the late singer, songwriter, and guitarist Elliott Smith. Featured musicians include singer\/guitarist Daniel Rossen (Grizzly Bear); singer\/mandolinist Chris Thile (Punch Brothers, NickelCreek); bassists Felix Moseholm (Brad Mehldau Trio) and John Davis; drummer Matt Chamberlain (FionaApple, Tori Amos, Randy Newman, etc.); and a chamber orchestra led by Dan Coleman. Ride into the Sun's ten Elliott Smith songs are complemented by four Mehldau compositions that he says are \"inspired by, and reflect, Smith's oeuvre.\" Also included are interpretations of Big Star's \"Thirteen,\" which Smith also covered, and \"Sunday\" by Nick Drake, who Mehldau says, \"I look at in some ways assort of Smith's visionary godfather.\" Recalling how he first got to know Smith and his music, which has been a regular part of his repertoire for years, Mehldau said that after years living in New York, he moved to Los Angeles \"and there was this wonderful scene of singer-songwriters that was congregating at a club called Largo. That included Elliott but it also included artists like Rufus Wainwright, Fiona Apple. And then other musicians who had been around for a while would come down every Friday night to sit in on a gig that was led by Jon Brion. I played behind Elliott on his own tunes with Jon. It felt to me like a kind of renaissance in songwriting that flourished for a number of years.\"","brand":"Nonesuch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46168339742803,"sku":"2726453X","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/1937\/5187\/files\/4433430.jpg?v=1791851608"},{"product_id":"after-bach-075597931808","title":"After Bach","description":"2018 release. After Bach comprises Brad Mehldau's recordings of four preludes and one fugue from J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, each followed by an After Bach piece written by Mehldau and inspired by it's WTC mate. \"There have always been elements of Mehldau's style that recall Bach,\" writes Timo Andres in the liner note. \"After Bach surveys their shared ground as keyboardists, improvisers, and composers, making implicit parallels explicit.\"","brand":"Nonesuch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46169022365779,"sku":"2009752X","price":11.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/1937\/5187\/files\/3764977_764963d6-f1a3-44c6-8bd6-0c0611328544.jpg?v=1788718382"},{"product_id":"art-of-the-trio-4-back-at-the-vanguard-093624746324","title":"Art Of The Trio 4: Back At The Vanguard","description":"In 1999, for the 2nd year in a row, Brad Mehldau's piano trio topped the Down Beat Critic's Poll for Best Acoustic Jazz Group in the Talent Deserving Wider Recognition category. Art Of The Trio 4: Back At The Vanguard further justifies those accolades. This live set, the newest installment of his trio releases, will continue to build Mehldau's growing public recognition (marked by a recent article in Time Magazine) and his stellar profile in the jazz world. Features \"Solar,\" \"London Blues\" and \"Exit Music (For A Film).\"","brand":"Warner Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46187458035795,"sku":"WEA474632","price":13.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/1937\/5187\/files\/282621_18a5a795-7116-4873-8460-81fbbe5bbbeb.jpg?v=1788875538"},{"product_id":"largo-093624811428","title":"Largo","description":"Largo brings together Mehldau and Jon Brion (produ cer of Aimee Mann, Fiona Apple, Rufus Wainwright and Eels) as it broadens Mehldau's audience to alternative music fans.","brand":"Warner Bros Uk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46187463868499,"sku":"WEA481142","price":11.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"finding-gabriel-paper-sleeve-4943674297610","title":"Finding Gabriel - Paper Sleeve","description":"Japanese paper sleeve pressing. 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Setting poetry by Blake, Yeats, Shakespeare, Brecht, Goethe, Auden and Cummings, Mehldau's music shifts seamlessly between a jazz idiom and Classical art song, and the work explores a theme as timeless as it is topical. The stylistic diversity of this project is underlined by adding a selection of jazz standards, as well as a Schubert lied. Grammy Award winning jazz pianist Brad Mehldau has recorded and performed extensively since the early 1990s, and makes his Pentatone debut with The Folly of Desire. His performances and compositions convey a wide range of expression. Ian Bostridge is one of the most celebrated tenors and lied interpreters of his generation. His Pentatone recording of Schubert's Winterreise (2019) was crowned with the ICMA Vocal Music Award 2020. 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