Review of Brad Mehldau Trio: Blues and Ballads

Brad Mehldau Trio: Blues and Ballads

Brad Mehldau | Jeff Ballard | Larry Grenadier

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★★

Following the epic, turbo-charged one man showcase on the retrospective 10 Years Solo Live and the exhilarating contemporary prog electronica...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2016

Review of Charlie Haden/Brad Mehldau: Long Ago and Far Away

Charlie Haden/Brad Mehldau: Long Ago and Far Away

Brad Mehldau | Charlie Haden

Impulse!

Rating: ★★★★

Clearly, 2007 was a good year for the late bass maestro Charlie Haden’s duets with extraordinary pianists. In March, at...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: Dec/Jan/2018/2019

Review of Album Interview: Brad Mehldau Trio: Seymour Reads The Constitution!

Album Interview: Brad Mehldau Trio: Seymour Reads The Constitution!

Brad Mehldau | Jeff Ballard | Larry Grenadier

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★★

Brad Mehldau's teasing talent for setting a mood of fascinating expectation and then unhurriedly revealing its multiple implications has been...

Reviewed by John Fordham in issue: July/2018

Review of Brad Mehldau: Jacob’s Ladder

Brad Mehldau: Jacob’s Ladder

Becca Stevens | Brad Mehldau | Cécile McLorin Salvant, | Chris Thile | Damien Mehldau | Fleurine | Joel Frahm | John Davis | Joris Roelofs | Lavinia Meijer

Editor's Choice

Nonesuch 0075597913460

Rating: ★★★★

By now readers should have become well-acquainted with Brad Mehldau’s radical departures from the art of contemporary acoustic piano trio...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: April/2022

Review of Brad Mehldau: Finding Gabriel

Brad Mehldau: Finding Gabriel

Aaron Nevezie | Ambrose Akinmusire | Becca Stevens | Brad Mehldau | Charles Pillow | Chris Cheek | Gabriel Kahane | Joel Frahm | Kurt Elling | Lois Martin

Editor's Choice

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★★

Finding Gabriel signals a radical departure from Mehldau's very recent recording projects, namely his stellar acoustic trio's Seymour Reads the...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2019

Review of Brad Mehldau Trio: The Art of the Trio: Recordings 1996-2001

Brad Mehldau Trio: The Art of the Trio: Recordings 1996-2001

Brad Mehldau | Jorge Rossy | Larry Grenadier

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★

Career retrospectives such as this usually come much later in an artist's life, and this seven CD box set includes...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: March/2012

Review of Redman/Mehldau/McBride/Blade: RoundAgain

Redman/Mehldau/McBride/Blade: RoundAgain

Brad Mehldau | Brian Blade | Christian McBride | Joshua Redman

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★

What could be the first supergroup of the post-pandemic era is actually the reincarnation of Joshua Redman's original mid-1990s quartet....

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: July/2020

Review of Konitz/Mehldau/Haden/Motian: Live At Birdland

Konitz/Mehldau/Haden/Motian: Live At Birdland

Brad Mehldau | Charlie Haden | Lee Konitz | Paul Motian

ECM

Rating: ★★★

A summit meeting or what? Six standards allowed to blossom and bear fruit delivered by a fabulous quartet of equals....

Reviewed by Duncan Heining in issue: June/2011

Review of Mehliana: Taming the Dragon

Mehliana: Taming the Dragon

Brad Mehldau | Mark Guiliana

Editor's Choice

Nonesuch

Rating: ★★★★

Punctuated by a surging synth-led funk-rock theme far more suited to the mosh pit than the concert hall, the narrator...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: February/2014

Review of Peter Bernstein: Signs Live!

Peter Bernstein: Signs Live!

Brad Mehldau | Christian McBride | Gregory Hutchinson | Peter Bernstein

Smoke Sessions Records

Rating: ★★★★

The guitarist Peter Bernstein jokes in the sleeve notes that the new album Signs Live! was a late album launch...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017

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