Brad Mehldau
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4 out of 5 stars.Jazz album of the monthYour Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays the Beatles review – classy jazz homageIn a powerful live recording, the piano virtuoso brings out the boogie, blues and gospel in the Fab Four’s songs
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4 out of 5 stars.Jazz album of the monthBrad Mehldau: Jacob’s Ladder review – prog rock and Bible stories make for unique, ingenious jazzThe pianist draws on an unlikely combination of childhood obsessions for this hard-hitting, audacious electronic hybrid
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The pianist intersperses classic Bach pieces with his own responses in a headscratching album of harmonic adventures
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The actor on Dragons’ Den, the jazz improvisations of Brad Mehldau, the Cinema Museum, a south London bus garage, and more…
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4 out of 5 stars.Mehldau is one of the contemporary form’s great improvisers, and with Jeff Ballard and Larry Grenadier he made unexpected but riveting connections
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4 out of 5 stars.(Nonesuch)
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The dancer and choreographer on Kate Tempest’s poetry, Asif Kapadia’s Amy Winehouse documentary, and jazz pianist Brad Mehldau
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4 out of 5 stars.A dense and dazzling recital of Bach’s classics and the compositions and improvisations inspired by them makes this a powerful, thought-provoking gig
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Brad Mehldau gets down and dirty on a remarkable new album from the electronics duo he formed with Mark Guiliana, writes John Fordham
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John Fordham reflects on a month of departures, and celebrates the Glasgow Improvisers' Orchestra festival. Plus, the jazz picks of this year and the next
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4 out of 5 stars.
With Mark Guiliana, Mehldau was funky and electric – while Wadada Leo Smith's epic was both beautiful and sobering, writes John Fordham
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The Brad Mehldau Trio's show is well-received – rapt attention, pin-drop silence, three encores, standing ovation – but some long-standing reservations remain, writes John Lewis
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Hersch packs more jazz-piano invention into a single show than most of his better-known peers, writes John Fordham
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The dynamics and empathy of this trio remain pretty irresistible on this set of covers from Jimi Hendrix's Hey Joe to Sonny Rollins's Airegin, writes John Fordham