Brad Mehldau

Brad Mehldau - Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays the Beatles (2023)

Brad Mehldau - Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays the Beatles (2023)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 00:48:32 | 203 Mb
Piano Jazz | Label: nonesuch Records

Pianist Brad Mehldau blew up in the mid-’90s playing intense renditions of Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hammerstein, and the like, but he’s also famously covered rock and pop fare including Radiohead, Alice in Chains, Neil Young, Rush, and indeed The Beatles. But here is Mehldau going all in, at peak expressive form and technical command, alone with a phenomenal instrument in a superb-sounding hall (Philharmonie de Paris), offering an emotionally invested all-Beatles programme (save for one David Bowie anthem at the end). The song order flows beautifully. Mehldau opens up the forms, cannily orchestrates the melodies, departs in fascinating ways from the harmonies, in the end keeping it all about the song. The emphasis is generally later Beatles (“I Am the Walrus,” “She Said, She Said,” and “Golden Slumbers” are inspired picks), but Mehldau’s boogie-woogie treatment of “I Saw Her Standing There” takes it back—it’s him convincingly flexing pre-bebop stylistic muscles while finding openings for his own creative language to come through.
Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride & Brian Blade - RoundAgain (2020)

Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride & Brian Blade - RoundAgain (2020)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 282 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 109 Mb | 00:44:42
Jazz, Post-Bop | Label: Nonesuch Records

The members of the original Joshua Redman Quartet—Redman (saxophone), Brad Mehldau (piano), Christian McBride (bass), and Brian Blade (drums)—reunite with the July 10, 2020 release of RoundAgain, the group’s first recording since 1994’s MoodSwing. The album features seven newly composed songs: three from Redman, two from Mehldau, and one each from McBride and Blade.
Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau - Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau (2017) [2CDs] {Nonesuch}

Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau - Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau (2017) [2CDs] {Nonesuch}
EAC 1.0b3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 332MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 210MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz

Nonesuch Records labelmates mandolinist/singer Chris Thile and pianist Brad Mehldau, longtime admirers of each other's work, first toured as a duo in 2013. At the end of 2015, they played a two-night stand at New York City's Bowery Ballroom before going into the studio to record Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau, a mix of covers and original songs that Nonesuch releases on January 27, 2017, on two CDs / LPs. The vinyl edition includes a bonus performance of Fiona Apple's "Fast As You Can." You can watch a live performances of the former above and the latter below.

Brad Mehldau & Ian Bostridge - The Folly of Desire (2023)  Music

Posted by delpotro at May 31, 2023
Brad Mehldau & Ian Bostridge - The Folly of Desire (2023)

Brad Mehldau & Ian Bostridge - The Folly of Desire (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 220 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 161 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:07:54
Classical, Vocal | Label: Pentatone

Brad Mehldau presents The Folly of Desire, a song cycle inquiring the limits of sexual freedom in a post-#MeToo political age, together with tenor Ian Bostridge, one of the greatest song interpreters of our times. 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.

Brad Mehldau - Jacob's Ladder (2022)  Music

Posted by delpotro at May 26, 2022
Brad Mehldau - Jacob's Ladder (2022)

Brad Mehldau - Jacob's Ladder (2022)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 431 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 168 Mb | 01:10:13
Jazz Fusion | Label: Nonesuch Records

Nonesuch Records releases Brad Mehldau’s Jacob’s Ladder. The album features new music that reflects on scripture and the search for God through music inspired by the prog rock Mehldau loved as a young adolescent, which was his gateway to the fusion that eventually led to his discovery of jazz. Featured musicians on the album include Mehldau’s label mates Chris Thile and Cécile McLorin Salvant, as well as Mark Guiliana, Becca Stevens, Joel Frahm, and others. The album’s first single, ‘maybe as his skies are wide’, builds off an interpolation of one portion of Rush’s classic ‘Tom Sawyer’.

Brad Mehldau - Introducing Brad Mehldau (1995)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Dec. 14, 2019
Brad Mehldau - Introducing Brad Mehldau (1995)

Brad Mehldau - Introducing Brad Mehldau (1995)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 381 MB | Covers (15 MB) included
Genre: Jazz, Piano Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Warner Bros. Records (9 45997-2)

Pianist Brad Mehldau's debut as a leader features his straight-ahead style in trios with either Larry Grenadier or Christian McBride on bass and Jorge Rossy or Brian Blade on drums. The well-rounded set is highlighted by tasteful and swinging versions of five standards (including John Coltrane's "Countdown," "It Might As Well Be Spring," and "From This Moment On") and four of the pianist's originals. This CD serves as a fine start to what should be a productive career.
Brad Mehldau & Orpheus Chamber Orchestra - Variations on a Melancholy Theme (2021)

Brad Mehldau & Orpheus Chamber Orchestra - Variations on a Melancholy Theme (2021)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 148 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 80 Mb | 00:34:07
Jazz | Label: Nonesuch Records

Brad Mehldau’s Variations on a Melancholy Theme will be released June 11, 2021, on Nonesuch Records. The recording features the pianist/composer and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, which commissioned this orchestral version of the work, which comprises a theme and eleven variations plus a cadenza and postlude; the album also includes an encore, “Variations ‘X’ and ‘Y.’” You can watch a video with excerpts from the piece below. (Mehldau originally composed Variations on a Melancholy Theme for pianist Kirill Gerstein.) Mehldau and Orpheus toured Europe, Russia, and the US with the piece, including a 2013 performance at Carnegie Hall. Speaking to the combination of classical form with jazz harmonies in the work’s musical language, Mehldau wrote, “I imagine it as if Brahms woke up one day and had the blues.”

Brad Mehldau - Highway Rider (2010)  Music

Posted by gribovar at April 15, 2021
Brad Mehldau - Highway Rider (2010)

Brad Mehldau - Highway Rider (2010)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 531 MB | Covers - 162 MB
Genre: Contemporary Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Nonesuch Records (75559-79827-0)

The Highway Rider is pianist and composer Brad Mehldau's second collaboration with enigmatic pop producer Jon Brion. The first was 2002's ambitious but tentative Largo. As a collaboration, The Highway Rider is much more confident by contrast. Mehldau’s most ambitious work to date, its 15 compositions are spread over two discs and 100 minutes. His trio - bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard - is augmented by saxophonist Joshua Redman, drummer Matt Chamberlain, and a chamber orchestra conducted by Dan Coleman. The album is a narrative jazz suite, orchestrated and arranged by Mehldau, though it has much in common with classical and pop music, as well…

Brad Mehldau - Finding Gabriel (2019) {Nonesuch}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Feb. 15, 2024
Brad Mehldau - Finding Gabriel (2019) {Nonesuch}

Brad Mehldau - Finding Gabriel (2019) {Nonesuch}
EAC 1.3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 600dpi | 378MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 127MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz, Fusion, Post-Bop

Brad Mehldau’s Finding Gabriel includes nine thematically related songs by Mehldau and features performances by him on piano, synthesizers, percussion, and Fender Rhodes, as well as vocals. Guest musicians include Ambrose Akinmusire, Sara Caswell, Kurt Elling, Joel Frahm, Mark Guiliana, Gabriel Kahane, and Becca Stevens, among others.

Brad Mehldau - Suite: April 2020 (2020)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Oct. 27, 2021
Brad Mehldau - Suite: April 2020 (2020)

Brad Mehldau - Suite: April 2020 (2020)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 00:40:20 | 141 Mb
Jazz | Label: Nonesuch Records

While sheltering at home with his family in the Netherlands during the COVID-19 pandemic, Brad Mehldau wrote 12 new songs about what he was experiencing; he was able to record them safely in an Amsterdam studio, along with tunes by Neil Young, Billy Joel, and Jerome Kern, for the album 'Suite: April 2020.