Brad Mehldau in Solo Session: Playing the piano and talking about the art of making music. I do not own copyrights of this video.Posted for educational purposes only.
Baaahahahah, all these comments trying to compare Keith Jarrett and Brad Mehldau. What a laugh, thank you ! Why people always want to do tops and compare everything ? Such a mistery...
This is the only thing they can do to make themselves look interinsting. They cannot go deep in the art of each artist. Only capable of comparing artificial aspect. Just ignore them
I don't like to compare Brad Mehldau with Keith Jarrett or anyone else. For me, Brad is a wonderful piano player with terrific technique and a master improviser. Thank you for a great upload.
At 9:26 I like how Brad puts it when he’s talking about how a pianist, or any artist, athlete or musician excels: study and practice, learn as much as you want, get all nerdy, but in the moment of improvisation you have to turn all that off, stop thinking, and let go.
He has the best feel of any living jazz pianist in my opinion. He also makes sure to keep things melodic at all times and doesn't seem to ever show off skills without melody
Grandiose et rare vidéo : la période de Elegiac Cycle et du Tokyo Concert... En 35:25 il raconte sa première rencontre avec des jazzmen new-yorkais, qui lui fit dire à l'époque "Wow I'm small...". Et là-dessus il se lance dans un version ultime de River Man, d'une densité harmonique et d'un lyrisme foisonnant à frissonner de beauté ! Faux modeste oui... mais quel génie !
Not too familiar with him, but has a unique harmonic language, that’s characteristic of a good artist. He tends to like a lot of pedal point harmony and ostinato like figures in some of his pieces.
He is god, he became god, his own god, our god, in every one of us there is a part of the creator ready to appears if you dedicate your life enough to your passion
Glad to hear and find this Paul.I'll hear Mehldau a n d Ian Bostridge on the 6th here in Berlin in Schumann's Dichterliebe and a new work BM composed for Bostridge.Most intriguing!!!!!! m o r e than 'crossover'.....!
Brad had a warmer tone back then. He can blow our minds with his hyper cerebral playing, mixed with a modest visceral concept. Every time he plays I go running to my Keith Jarrett's collection to listen to music from the heart.
Newyork Filharmonik You must have poor comprehension skills. This video is the younger Melhdau a genius, hyper intellectual/cerebral and his playing is intriguing. What I meant was that he enhances my desire to go back to my heart, through listening to Jarrett. Here and there Melhdau humbles himself and in the past, like in this video, was less cerebral.
I've been writing long enough to know that if one uses the words "what I meant", that the problem is the author's clarity and not the reader's comprehension. Often in our attempt to be brief we lose clarity. Use more words, like a Coltrane solo, get it all out so there's no doubt. If you what you wrote is not what you meant, you can change it and make it clear; that's what artists do each time they create art. It's what I do when I read or hear something I wrote or played. About 2000, Pepsi had a promotion where if you sent in proofs of purchase, you could get a cd made from listed songs. I didn't know any of the artists, but I did know "Blackbird" by the Beatles, so I chose Brad's cover of that song along with "Exit Music for a Film" and another song by another artist (I don't remember who). "Exit Music for a Film" made me look for more of his work.
Newyork Filharmonik Ok. At first you came across as rude with your reply. I felt like pointing out your misunderstanding of my statement. It needed to be clarified, for sure. I've also spent a few years in the past intrigued with the Melhdau phenomenon and didn't know what to make of it. When you go to a museum and look at a painting you find strange and don't seem to like much, yet you keep looking for some odd reason. I've seen him live a couple times and it was definitely an experience similar to the painting. It is intellectually stimulating and once in a while ( to me, obviously) reaches that spot in the heart. I guess it is a matter of temperament and personality. Recently I've read Jarrett's impressions on Melhdau and, frankly, was a little shocked. Contrary to what Jarrett said, Melhdau's music has life, and he seems to be influencing two generations already, which perhaps resonates with a more hyper intellectual style. Anyway, sorry for my initial sarcasm. All the best.
I haven't read what Jarrett said. In terms of innovation, the people I talk to (working musicisans) think Brad is a KILLER and heir to Keith's throne as the most recognizable jazz pianist today. I don't know too much of Keith's work before the standards trio. His handling of standards is my fascination with him.
