Live in Tokyo

Artist: Brad Mehldau
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music

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Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 075597985320
EAN: 0075597985320
ASIN: B0002M5TCU

Release Date: 2004-09-14

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Tracks:

Things Behind The Sun - Drake
Intro - Mehldau
Soemone to Watch Over Me - Gershwin/Gershwin
From This Moment On - Porter
Monk's Dream - Monk
Paranoid Android -Yorke/O'Brien/Greenwood/Greenwood/Selway
How Long Has This Been Going On? - Gershwin/Gershwin
River Man - Drake

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Customer Reviews:

I Love this Album! But don't buy it here!.......2006-12-18

FIrst I would like to say that this is a great album. The creativity is immense, and I can't help comparing it to Keith Jarret's Köln Concert, and I think that this may surpass it.

However! You may have seen the Import of 'Live In Tokyo' when you searched for it. Or maybe you didn't. But the import is much longer, and it seems to be the entire concert. Of course, on Amazon, it's around $50. But you can get the longer version through iTunes for less than the price of the shorter version ($13). Totally worth it.

Exquisite.......2006-09-12

Any fan of Mehldau's music will enjoy this cd. It's not my favorite of his live music, only because I love the rythym section and the foundation it allows him for exploration. But hearing him solo on a piano is just as enjoyable in many ways because his approach and the overall tone is a different flavor.

The song selection on this album is incredible. After about half a dozen listens, I'm most impressed with Gershwin's "Someone To Watch Over Me". Such a lovely ballad, and Mehldau plays it with such passion that you can almost hear the heartache in the piano strings. The Monk tune is amazing. Very interesting and different style than the completely INSANE version on Art of the Trio Vol. 2. "River Man" is great. "How Long" is always lovely, and of course nobody does Radiohead better than Brad. The concert-hall vibe is a nice change of pace from the jazz club. If you like great piano, or simply great music delivered with incredible passion, check out this cd.

Bumping Up Against Jarrett and Others. . . ........2006-04-14

I could see a reviewer giving this CD 4 stars, if only because of the sprawling "epicness" of it, which could verge on self-indulgence. I'll take those things to be good, though, and give him 5 stars. This CD is very reminiscent of several of Keith Jarrett's CDs, both his solo concerts and work with his trio. The use of such diverse sources for his material puts Mehldau in very safe and risky territories from track to track, but he then ventures into such ambitious places with all of them that he rarely seems to be "safe." While some would argue the validity of a 20-minute rambling take on a Radiohead tune, I commend him for his use of "non-standard" material for his improvisations. Mehldau has released additional tracks on ITunes, all of which I have purchased, and a couple of those appear on his next CD, DAY IS DONE. The "extended" version of the concert is even more impressive. You can't argue Mehldau's technique (or I wouldn't), ambition, vision, variety, perspective, etc. I loved the ride and listen on a fairly regular basis. I am always curious to hear what he is doing on his next release, and I haven't been disappointed yet.

Jazz Piano ?.......2005-07-26

Precise piano, pianistic, excellent technique and intonation. But Jazz piano - I dont think so. The style is all his own - didnt hear influences of any artist nor idiom except for likely classical training. I made the purchase based on what I'd read in the on-line reviews. This was my introduction to Mr. Mehldau - I was looking forward to solo jazz piano on a par with Roger Kelloway, vintage Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, even recent Keith Jarrett following recovery from serious illness. What my perception missed were the necessary jazz elements of syncopation, harmonic invention and development, and rhythm. It was interesting.

Gifted jazz pianist on his own.......2005-03-25

This CD is my first exposure to the art of Brad Mehldau, and a most impressive artist he is. It's not just the fistfuls and cascades of notes that issue from his fingers, as breathtaking as his virtuosity can be. As with all great jazz artists the beat is ever-present in his playing, even with the fewest notes and at the slowest tempi--the Gershwin standards are wonderful examples of this and perhaps the most appealing tracks on the disc. Elsewhere he elaborates on Nick Drake, Thelonius Monk and Radiohead to always fascinating if sometimes overlong results (the Paranoid Android track lasts almost twenty minutes). A bit of Philip Glass or other minimalist flavor occasionally creeps in with his obsessive dwelling on a single pitch for long stretches--whether you'll respond to that depends on how well you like such things. Still, there aren't many jazz pianists around, I would guess, who can sustain such a concert as this. Definitely worth a listen.

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