Jazz breaking news: Nirvana’s ‘Lithium’ On Forthcoming Brad Mehldau Album
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Ahead of this weekend’s Brad Mehldau European première of his extended work Highway Rider on Saturday Jazzwise can exclusively reveal that Nonesuch Records, the US pianist’s recording home for many years, has now confirmed that solo performance album Live in Marciac, a 2-CD and DVD set, will be released on 10 January.
Mehldau, last in the UK at the Wigmore Hall earlier this year, is at the London Jazz Festival this weekend with a large ensemble including his classic trio with Larry Grenadier and Jeff Ballard plus saxophonist Joshua Redman who Mehldau worked with early in his career, along with cult experimental rock drummer Matt Chamberlain, and the Britten Sinfonia conducted by Scott Yoo. Highway Rider received its world première last week performed with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in Minneapolis.
The upcoming Barbican performance follows the release of Love Songs on Naïve Records with mezzo soprano Anne Sofie von Otter last month, a release that saw Mehldau composing music set to the poems of Sara Teasdale, ee cummings and Philip Larkin, and followed an earlier classical collaboration with soprano Renée Fleming.
The double album version of Highway Rider, a sequel to Mehldau’s best selling album Largo, was released back in March to critical acclaim and when the 40-year-old last featured on the cover of Jazzwise. Its release leapfrogged ahead of this Marciac set in the schedule.
Tracks are: ‘Storm’ (written by Mehldau); ‘It’s All Right With Me’ (Cole Porter); ‘Secret Love' (Fain/Webster); ‘Unrequited’ (Mehldau); ‘Resignation’ (Mehldau); ‘Trailer Park Ghost’ (Mehldau); ‘Goodbye Storyteller (for Fred Myrow)’ (Mehldau); ‘Exit Music (for a Film)’ (Radiohead); ‘Things Behind the Sun’ (Nick Drake); ‘Lithium’ (Kurt Cobain); ‘Lilac Wine’ (James Alan Shelton); ‘Martha My Dear’ (Lennon/McCartney); ‘My Favorite Things’ (Rodgers/Hammerstein) and ‘Dat Dere’ (Bobby Timmons) (CD only).
Nonesuch will also release a box set of The Art of the Trio recordings next year when Mehldau will also return to the Wigmore Hall for more concerts to complete his curatorship at the London venue.
– Stephen Graham