Brad Mehldau

Like Miles Davis, Bill Evans and Stan Getz, Brad Mehldau is a serious musician who performs ballads so beautifully that he attracts casual jazz fans along with academic acclaim. Coming off of the electronic experimentation of Largo, Mehldau returns to the trio format and plays exquisite piano throughout this set.

Pianist Brad Mehldau, a thirty-three-year-old Floridian, has helped refresh jazz by including
the music of his generation, touching on everyone from Nick Drake to Radiohead. On
Anything Goes, more traditional fare dominates; the performances are dreamily ingratiating
and a touch conservative. Mehldau's intensely lyrical style melds with his longtime rhythm
section, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy, to create melodic mo... More >