Brad's Writings Available in One PDF Book
JUNE 20, 2008
Brad's essays are now available for download in a single PDF book in the Writings section. The collection features 11 pieces and can be easily accessed via a table of contents. The PDF file will yield high-resolution copies for printing and reading offline.
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New Video Perfomances of Brad Now Available for Viewing
JUNE 8, 2008
Brad gave a solo performance in his hometown of Hartford, Connecticut in April. Four songs are available for viewing. Songs are Airegin, I Fall In Love To Easily, No Moon At All and Riverman.
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"Brad Mehldau Trio Takes Listeners on a Journey"
MAY 3, 2008
Popular blog MLife.com features a piece on the Trio's performance in Kalamazoo. "Mehldau was excellent at pulling people into his world and sharing his take on several standards.
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Brad to Participate at JVC Jazz Festival New York
APRIL 10, 2008
Brad will we be performing at JVC Jazz Festival in New York at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall on June 22. This year’s festival runs from June 15-28 and features other jazz luminaries like Bill Frisell and Joshua Redman.
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Brad Mehldau Podcasts Now Available in iTunes
APRIL 10, 2008
A collection of exclusive live performances (audio and video), Largo album EPK and two interviews with Brad and Pat Metheny are available as podcasts in Apple iTunes.
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Brad Featured on Two Recent Releases
APRIL 3, 2008
Brad Mehldau is a featured guest on two recent releases that explore the music of Brazil in very different ways. The most recent is the beautiful sounding "San Francisco", from vocalist Fleurine.
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The other release, "Cymbals," is from Brazilllian singer Vinicius Cantuaria. The collection of mostly Mr. Cantuaria's own songs is varied and rich.
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"Wonderwall" from Live Album NPR's Song of the Day
APRIL 2, 2008
"Brad Mehldau Trio: Rebuilding Wonderwall" is the April 2 featured song on NPR Music. The article talks about the Live album track and the dynamics within the trio.
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Brad Mehldau Trio Live Expanded Version Available at Nonesuch Records
MARCH 24, 2008
Brad Mehldau Trio Live: Complete Friday Night Sets contains the complete music – over three hours and 15 MP3 files – from all three Friday-night sets of the Trio's October 2006 residency at the Village Vanguard featured on their two-disc Live album, including tunes by Thelonious Monk, Benny Goodman, Paul Simon, and Radiohead. Available exclusively at Nonesuch Records.
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Brad Mehldau Trio Live Receives Critical Acclaim
MARCH 22, 2008
In the first week of release, Brad Mehldau Trio Live has received top reviews by the Guardian (UK), Financial Times and All About Jazz. A special Reviews page for the Live album is now available and will continue to be updated.
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Nonesuch Records Releases the Brad Mehldau Trio’s Live on March 25
Double-album was recorded live at The Village Vanguard
Fifteen-city U.S. tour begins April
MARCH 15, 2008
Nonesuch releases the latest album by The Brad Mehldau Trio – pianist Mehldau, bassist Larry Grenadier, and drummer Jeff Ballard – on March 25, 2008. The two-disc set, Live, was recorded by the group The New York Times calls “a graceful and sonorous acoustic jazz combo” at The Village Vanguard in October 2006. Mehldau previously recorded two albums, 1998’s Live At The Village Vanguard, The Art Of The Trio Volume Twoand 1999’s The Art Of The Trio Volume Four, Back At The Vanguard, at the famed New York jazz club. The trio tours to fourteen U.S. cities – plus one Mehldau solo show – beginning April 3.
Live includes five original tunes by Mehldau, as well as interpretations of songs by composers as diverse as jazz legends Jimmy Heath and John Coltrane, Brazilian singer/songwriter Chico Buarque, and rock musicians Chris Cornell of Soundgarden and Noel Gallagher of Oasis. Also included is the standard tune “The Very Thought of You,” written by Ray Noble and made famous by Nat King Cole, and “More Than You Know,” from the Edward Eliscu, Billy Rose, and Vincent Youmans Broadway show, Great Day!
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Brad to Curate Four-Concert Jazz Series at Wigmore Hall
MARCH 12, 2008
London's Wigmore Hall has just announced that Brad Mehldau will curate an annual four-concert jazz series at the Hall during its 2009-10 and 2010-11seasons, with Brad appearing in at least two of the four annual concerts.
"Brad Mehldau is steeped in the classical music tradition and is one of the most fluid and inventive musicians that I have ever encountered," said the Hall's director, John Gilhooly, in a statement announcing the series. "We are very pleased and excited to welcome him to Wigmore Hall."
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