Brad Mehldau
Brad Mehldau: Jacob’s Ladder review – prog rock and Bible stories make for unique, ingenious jazz
The pianist draws on an unlikely combination of childhood obsessions for this hard-hitting, audacious electronic hybrid
John Fordham
18, Mar, 2022 @8:30 AM
Contemporary album of the month – Brad Mehldau: After Bach
The pianist intersperses classic Bach pieces with his own responses in a headscratching album of harmonic adventures
John Lewis
01, Mar, 2018 @6:00 PM
On my radar: Toby Jones’s cultural highlights
The actor on Dragons’ Den, the jazz improvisations of Brad Mehldau, the Cinema Museum, a south London bus garage, and more…
Kathryn Bromwich
12, Nov, 2017 @10:00 AM
Brad Mehldau Trio review – searching, storytelling jazz at its finest
Mehldau is one of the contemporary form’s great improvisers, and with Jeff Ballard and Larry Grenadier he made unexpected but riveting connections
John Fordham
22, May, 2017 @1:52 PM
Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau review – mind-boggling interplay
(Nonesuch)
Dave Gelly
29, Jan, 2017 @8:00 AM
Thile/Mehldau: Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau review – remarkable rapport as bluegrass meets jazz
John Fordham
26, Jan, 2017 @6:15 PM
'I've spent the last year in a dream state': virtuoso mandolinist Chris Thile
He has taken the mandolin where it has never gone before, even using it to record Bach. Now he’s teamed up with jazz giant Brad Mehldau and is promising to write a topical song every week
Alfred Hickling
25, Jan, 2017 @6:30 PM
Brad Mehldau Trio: Blues and Ballads review – old songs made ingeniously new
John Fordham
21, Jul, 2016 @5:00 PM
Brad Mehldau Trio: Blues and Ballads review – extraordinarily inventive
(Nonesuch)
Dave Gelly
05, Jun, 2016 @7:00 AM
On my radar: Akram Khan’s cultural highlights
The dancer and choreographer on Kate Tempest’s poetry, Asif Kapadia’s Amy Winehouse documentary, and jazz pianist Brad Mehldau
Kate Kellaway
08, May, 2016 @9:00 AM
Brad Mehldau review – a balance of space and intensity perfectly struck
A dense and dazzling recital of Bach’s classics and the compositions and improvisations inspired by them makes this a powerful, thought-provoking gig
John Fordham
18, Dec, 2015 @3:38 PM
The playlist – jazz: London jazz festival, Maria Schneider, Matthew Halsall and more
Jazz fans will get rare live sightings of some great acts in the coming weeks, plus exciting releases from Colin Towns, Tigran Hamasyan, Brad Mehldau and a classic by Errol Garner
John Fordham
20, Oct, 2015 @3:39 PM
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