Brad Mehldau - After Bach (Live at Philharmonie de Paris), Part 1 

Just beautiful. The Glenn Gould of Jazz. Even has his bench.

there just isn't a category for this guy. he's constantly evolving. i've seen him a few times over the years (yoshi's oakland and zellerbach) and it's always magic. he becomes so intimate with the instrument, his entire being and the keys merge into one.

The tonal palette he achieves is seriously astonishing.

There is no one like him! He’s constantly reaching higher and higher for new things and accomplishing them. This is a great performance. Not enough stars to rate this!

The fact that he's absolutely killing it in 5....

I keep coming back to this performance, it's just so damn good.

This is truly wonderful. I remember seeing this two years ago, and how surprised and delighted I was by what I heard. Now again I'm overcome by a kind of joy, a childish pleasure in discovering a new possibility, a new detail in the world. It's hard to comprehend but it just happens.

What a gift to articulate on the keyboard Bach's affect on his consciousness.

Could listen to this music all night. So creative. Fantastic.

Brad please ....another gem album of classical "declinaison"!your after bach is bliss.

I don't understand how this guy constantly composes music at this quality. Amazing.

Le Rondo, que ce soit en album ou en live, me transporte à chaque fois, de la beauté du thème stricte aux explorations harmoniques avec tout leurs possibles suggérés... Absolument magnifique

I love Mehldau's objective approach to piano, without emphasis, controlled, but not cold.

fantastico...entrare nel mondo di Brad è un privilegio ❤️

Some of the best music I've ever heard.

This is the most incredible example of baroque morphing into jazz that I've ever heard. I mean this is pure genius....waaa

Bach is number one

incredible pleasure ... sounds are like a bridge from time to timeless

This makes me so giddily happy, I could cry, Thanks very much.

Thank you for reuploading

Florida man goes crazy while playing Bach

I loved you before this, now I love you more. Thank you for this

Yeah, Brad!! There are no limits to music.

C’est magnifique!

Magical and brilliant! Thank you Mr. Mehldau!

Wonderful!

brad is magic!!!

So grateful for this posting! Thank you! Im on a musical disneyride in a dream...the subtle, beautiful, and soul affirming surprises keep coming. Thank you!

just incredible

Something about the phrasing makes the opening so addictive

Magnífico!

Mind blown 🤯

Mehldau my favorite

Amazing!

Nice! We were on the same record label once. Closest I ever came to this. Lol. Thanks. You sound great!

Love it.

This is the guy who in 02/24 mentioned, while talking to Beato, that Bach would be a challenge just to play it as correctly as Bach intended his stuff to be played (what the notation demands); and that would be of a sufficiently high enough nature of challenge. It's fair to say he's overachieved that in a way, hasn't he?

0:59 oh maaan, Mehldau cannot help himself from swinging! Love it

this is my favorite WTC prelude as well!

Magic...

Spellbinding 🎹🎶

♥️♥️♥️

Unbounded talent

If Bach is Jazz, Bach has never been more jazzish than this. And if Jazz is Bach, jazz has never been more Bachish than this.

THE ONE.

Love the facial expressions around 3:15 xD

❤❤❤

speechless ... oh My GOD

Brad Meldhau and Gabriella Montero are the best improvisers ! Incredible...No limits to their imagination AND technique !

Beyond human

i hope the next brad project. orchestra back live recording in germany. jsbach him ripping out by brad

Seems like there is some missing. Wish Nonesuch would just post the whole concert on 1 video like it used to be available through the Philharmonie de Paris RU-vid channel.

😊💓💚🌾

Damn! That piano talks 8:39

7:56 !

Just sublime(◕ᴗ◕✿)

Glenn Gould and Brad Mehldau together 🔥

💥🤷🏻‍♂️💥

!!!!

Mehldau and Kremer should get together on Bach!!

Since Bach improvised, could he be considered the first Jazz player? If so Mehldau is in a long line.

it sounds like he’s pulling those notes from the piano

I can’t tell how much is improvised. Anyone know how this is written out?

that’s carzy

Voilà de quoi "clouer le bec" aux dévots du classique !! Respects Mr. Mehldau

My piano teacher told me moving my mouth like that didn't really help my playing.

When it comes Bach we all suck. (pat Metheny)

It seems like Brad played a wrong note in the first part. Since the piece is in C# Major, it should be a B# in the left hand in bar 84 on beat 3, not a B natural like he played. I was quickly checking other recordings, because sometimes musicologists disagree about which note is right. But on all recordings that I checked (Schiff, Richter, Gulda, Jarrett) B# was played. Even on his studio recording Brad plays B natural. That makes me wonder if he considered B natural to be the "right" note and consciously preferred it to B#. It could have been Bach who forgot to mark the note as B natural. But my guess is that Brad simply overlooked that it should be B#. C# Major is hard to read after all (especially for jazz musicians, who are used to Db major). Anyway, B natural works fine actually and the moral of the story should be that music is not an exact science. What counts is that the music moves people, and Brad certainly moved me (and apparently many others, as I'm looking through the comments) with this recording.

Galactic Earth meets Rhythmic Earth...

Some body sick in the public. Why he didn't stay at home??

I m sorry: His BACH-playing is awful. Sometimes too fast, sometimes too slow, when he is uncertain. Its like, at the beginning: "let´s run for it and see what happens!" The Jazzy-Thing is better, but...