Brad Mehldau: The Art Of The Trio Vol.4: Back At The Vanguard on CD

Brad Mehldau (geb. 1970)

The Art Of The Trio Vol.4: Back At The Vanguard

CD (Compact Disc)

Conventional CD, playable with all CD players and computer drives, but also with most SACD or multiplayers.

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Label:: Warner
Year of recording ca.:: 1999
Item number:: 1525904
UPC/EAN:: 0093624746324
Release date:: 28.9.1999

+ Larry Grenadier, Jorge Rossy

This is the second live recording of Mehldau’s trio from a week at The Village Vanguard in New York, this one in January 1999. As the band has evolved, the rhythmic relationship between Mehldau, Grenadier and Rossy has become more elastic yet more solid. Mehldau says, “Our trust level was becoming consistently stronger collectively, so we began to feel less and less constricted by whatever form we were in. The year before this recording, and the following couple of years, were very active in terms of performance for us, so we really had an opportunity to develop as a band.

This record came at a point where I realized that my musical identity was inseparable from Larry and Jorge, because we were growing together and influencing each other in this malleable, give and take kind of way.” A highlight of this record is ‘Nice Pass,’ the first of several of what Mehldau half-jokingly refers to as one of his ‘epic-tunes.’ Mehldau’s arrangement of ‘All The Things You Are’ marks a continuation of the trio’s love affair with the odd meter, 7 / 4, and their ability to abstract the rhythm even further within that meter takes a leap here. A live take on ‘Exit Music’ gives the listener a much different, fierier version than the earlier version from ‘Songs.’ (bradmehldau. com)

Reviews

M. Müller in Stereo 1/00: "Abenteuerliche Expedition in harmonische und rhythmische Unwegsamkeiten, stets trittsicher über tänzelnden Beats, abgesichert in sachtem Swing und sinnlicher Melodik. Einer der innovativsten Musiker seiner Generation."