Brad Mehldau - Solo Piano Live in Tokyo [2004]

Track Lists
1. Things Behind The Sun (Drake) - 4.37
2. Intro (Mehldau) - 2.42
3. Someone to Watch Over Me (Gershwin/Gershwin) - 9.54
4. From This Moment On (Porter) - 7.55
4. Monk's Dream (Monk) - 7.59
5. Paranoid Andriod (Yorke/ O'Brien/ Greenwood/ Greenwood/ Selway) - 19.29
6. How Long Has This Been Going On ? (Gershwin/Gershwin) - 9.00
7. River Man (Drake) 8.58


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Brad Mehldau has followed his musical inclinations into some surprise territories. First gaining attention as a member of Joshua Redman's quartet in the early 1990s, he could have easily been expected to unfold a new traditionalist's approach to jazz. Instead he's taken that formidable grounding and attached it to a wide range of compositional explorations. The solo piano Live in Tokyo is framed by a pair of Nick Drake compositions, and in between are pieces by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Thelonious Monk, and Radiohead, along with one original. The material is all linked by Mehldau's focus on melodic identity and harmonic invention. He succeeds in finding the stately heart of each number, with Radiohead's "Paranoid Android" sounding perfectly natural alongside Gershwin's "How Long Has This Been Going On?" –David Greenberger

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