Wednesday June 08, 2016
from thetimes.co.uk
Jazz: The Brad Mehldau Trio: Blues and Ballads
By: Chris Pearson
What, no Radiohead? Brad Mehldau is adept at bending almost any music to the will of the jazz tradition, whether it’s alternative rock or, as heard at the Wigmore Hall last December, establishment baroque. Yet this album has his most traditional song selection yet: four jazz standards, a Beatles ballad and just two contemporary songs, both of which are pretty much Tin Pan Alley pastiches.
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