The Art of the Trio, Vol. 1

Artist: Brad Mehldau
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 093624626022
EAN: 0093624626022
ASIN: B000002N82

Release Date: 1997-01-28

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Tracks:

Blame It On My Youth
I Didn't Know What Time It Was
Ron's Place
Blackbird
Lament For Linus
Mignon's Song
I Fall In Love Too Easily
Lucid
Nobody Else But Me

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Customer Reviews:

A perfect add to your jazz collection.......2006-05-14

This album is very, very well done. The man is genius, and if you only get a chance to hear one song, "Black Bird" is the one. Enjoy.

Bill Evans He's Not.......2006-03-06

In his interminably boring, mice type liner notes, Brad Mehldau goes to great lengths dispelling the notion that he might sound like Bill Evans. The message being, `Oh golly, there's so much more going on in my playing-Please.' Well, I can assure you, Bill Evans he's not. He wouldn't qualify to give Bill Evans a cab ride uptown. Matter of fact, he sounds more like watered down Keith Jarrett-nothing very original going on here. And if you need 10,000 words of liner notes to explain what you're doing-guess what-you ain't doing squat. As a pianist who's been playing modern jazz for 40 years, I can tell you to sit this set out. And if you want Bill Evans or Keith Jarrett, go get the real thing.

Great trio work, but missing something.......2005-07-07

I love listening to Brad Mehldau (ever since I first heard him play with Joshua Redman off the album, MOODSWING), however I think that his choice of music could have been better on this album. A worthwhile CD to listen to always has a mix of ballads, uptempos, medium tempos, and sometimes the blues. I wouldn't have made the first track a ballad, either. The mix is a little off on material. He included too many ballads for an album like this.

Great piano trio music.......2004-03-27

As a serious fan of Bill Evans, but with little knowledge of the jazz world, I picked up the first four volumes of Mehldau's Art of the Trio recordings following a recommendation from a friend.

Volumes 1 and 3 are studio recordings; volumes 2 and 4 are live (I don't have volume 5, yet, another live volume, this one on 2 CDs). I think Mehldau is great, and I especially like the studio recordings. They are lyrical and melodic, whereas the live recordings tend more toward pyrotechnics and displays of virtuosity.

If you like the kind of music Bill Evans played, you'll certainly like volumes 1 and 3. You may prefer the live ones, especially if you're into Keith Jarrett (at least Mehldau doesn't grunt and squeal all the time). In any case, this is great music, well played and the trio has a great rapport.

Wonderful. Made with the craft of older jazz.......2003-05-30

Simply wonderful. in Art of the Trio Volume 1 Brad Mehldau clearly seems to inherit the cloak of the marvelous Bill Evans, argueably, the best Jazz pianist of all time. The song are deep lyrical, just beautiful. Expressions of true emotion. His bass player Paul Grenadier meshes well, placing emphasis and pushing back where needed without seeming to get into turf battles (as sometimes happened with Evans) and Jorge Rossy drums are also perfect. A well oiled machine.

The best stuff here is the standards: "Blame it on my Youth", "I didn't know What Time it Was", the bouncy "Nobody Else but Me" and "Blackbird" (I always wonder why Jazz groups don't work more with the lyrical Beatle melodies, as Jazz musicians of the past used the pop melodies of Cole Porter, and Gershwin?). But the best of all is the heart wrenching, slow "I Fall in Love Too Easily". It takes courage to publicly display this kind of deep sadness (it isn't just a tempo). There must have been a failed love affair somewhere...

The original songs are, well, not up to the level of the standards, but what can you expect? They're new. It's really it's a great record from beginning to end. Despite some sad songs, the Trio genuinely seems to be enjoying themselves in playing!

Well recorded, good harmonics on the piano.

I would love to see Brad and the Trio make another CD this good!

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