Nonesuch records releases brad mehldau s 10 years solo live eightlp vinyl box set october 16, 2015. Brad mehldau, 10 years solo live in highresolution audio. The material is all linked by mehldaus focus on melodic identity and harmonic invention. Brad mehldau blackbird piano transcription download. Conceptually divided into 4 groups or divisions, darklight, the concert, intermezoruckblick and e minore major, these sets reveal the. Shop and buy the brad mehldau collection sheet music. Because the barcelona international jazz festival likes challenges and the piano solo is one of the most extreme tests. The solo piano box set of this or most other years is conceivably the finest product brad mehldau has released yet, a veritable library for jazz study unto itself. His version of elvis costello s baby plays around goes into a long outoftempo solo section that dilutes its effect.
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The box set 10 years solo live appeared in 2015 and featured solo performances mehldau had given in europe in the preceding decade. His first longterm trio featured bassist larry grenadier and drummer jorge rossy. The pianist and composer brad mehldau is 41, and starting to traverse an odd and difficult plateau for a jazz musician. Dreamsketch solo full stave elegy for william burroughs and allen ginsberg solo. The brad mehldau collection by brad mehldau sheet music. His first record for nonesuch, brad mehldau live in tokyo, was released in september 2004. Brad mehldau 10 years solo live nonesuch 7559795075 brad mehldau, piano. Brad mehldau 10 years solo live 4cd box set blue sounds. Brad mehldaus career as a solo artist, in all senses of that word, takes a huge leap forward with this box set.
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