For me as a leader, that has meant not forcing a particular direction at any given moment. Live is the fourth Mehldau trio release recorded at the Village Vanguard club in New York City, and the songs were culled from performances that took place there October , It is a double CD. Finally I came up with this bass line that Larry just nails, and Jeff found this dry, scrtatchy groove to go along with it. In that way, he overlaps with Jeff and I in a different place every time he repeats that figure he plays.
Here, Jeff and I take a different tactic, passing the soloistic role back and forth between us throughout the improvised section of the tune. It creates a different kind of narrative, like a story being told that is shared between two speakers. Disc 1: 1. Introduction 2. Each artist has recorded extensively for Nonesuch, with a wide variety of collaborators.
Since , Redman has been performing with a new collaborative group called James Farm, whose members also include pianist Aaron Parks, bassist Matt Penman, and drummer Eric Harland. The group has two releases on Nonesuch; their self-titled album from , and City Folk, released in Grammy Award winning jazz pianist Brad Mehldau has recorded and performed extensively since the early s.
Starting in , his group released a series of five records on Warner Bros. During that same period, Mehldau also released a solo piano recording entitled Elegiac Cycle , and a record called Places that included both solo piano and trio songs. Other Mehldau recordings include Largo , a collaborative effort with the innovative musician and producer Jon Brion, and Anything Goes —a trio outing with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy.
On March 16, , Nonesuch released a double-disc of original work entitled Highway Rider, the highly anticipated follow up to Largo.
Ode went on to garner a Grammy nomination. Whereas Ode featured 11 songs composed by Mehldau, Where Do You Start was comprised of interpretations of 10 tunes by other composers, along with one Mehldau original.
Both albums have received universal praise from critics and audiences alike, and both earned a Grammy nomination for Mehldau. He is first and foremost an improviser, and greatly cherishes the surprise and wonder that can occur from a spontaneous musical idea that is expressed directly, in real time.
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