Tony is masterful player -I am sorry but I never heard of him before but I am sure he has been around. Tony , Philly, DeJohnette all of these players would be awed by this playing Just can't believe this performance
@@stephenpopovichl122 I couldn’t agree more. If you are curious about Adam Nussbaum he played a lot with Michael Brecker, Syzygy is a good video of both of them playing together on RU-vid
@@stephenpopovichl122 The drummer is Jeff Ballard. [FYI : champignondeParis was jesting about a perceived likeness to the fictional character Tony Soprano, as played by actor James Gandolfini, in the TV series"The Sopranos"]. And yes, Jeff has "been around", as you put it - he's a truly beautiful drummer indeed.
this snare-tom flurry ending in a mixture of floor-tom and ride cymbal, which makes the rhythm appear out of nowhere, in an accelerated fashion to meet that 1 in time. it's just so sweet 15:59
I’m sorry to say, I fear the negative comments here are largely from people who don’t understand what he’s doing. I don’t suppose I caught it all, but I caught enough of it to think it’s amazing.
It's like the guy in the comments section of The Consouls upload of their Radio#27 (during the second set of which they played Price from Persona 5 in a glorious 7/4 meter instead of the original 4/4) who said that the sax player didn't know what he was doing. 😬
Brad mehldau is one of the most influential jazz piano player…. His trio and his work with Joshua red man / Brian blade / Christian McBride / pat metheny .. is simply god like
Mehldau exploits here a resource that he masters very well, where both hands play the same subject, a super melody with two right hands but without a left hand, both hands at the service of a single element, they are never independent, Mehldau is a single person playing the piano, and not two, as a great jazz pianist should be. The best example that comes to mind is Michel Petrucciani.
Such a classic take. All 3 of them are so clued into that special 'cheeky' kind of swing feel, I don't think I have really heard anyone else play with this swing feel, the trio with Jorge Rossy didn't have it, but it's not just from Jeff Ballard, like listen to Jeff play with Chick Corea, it doesn't have the same feeling at all. I think it comes from Monk, and I guess Sonny also had that cheekyness. Also, what an incredibly perfect & swinging bass solo, Larry's entire being is in sync, look at the focus on his face, he is even dancing a little bit, his head and hips move in time with his rhythm. alos, JUST CHECK OUT that line at 4:50 with the glissando. and WHAT ABOUT those chords at the beginning of the B section just afterwards (we're talking about Brad's comping now) also don't miss that voiceleading in those upwards chords from 6:35 to 6:49, like wtf is that voiceleading? How did he...? It just kept going up. He ended on the 5th but it sounded so unexpected.
I feel like I’m a decent musician but am light years away from understanding and appreciating the music on this level… your ability to enjoy in this way is demonstrative of serious time and attention to this art!
there is not much video of this trio at this time (trio vol4) or of them playing this tune - OMG pure madness! odd meter playing has never been the same since these guys showed how deep you could go - harmonically, rythmically, musically - ASTOUNDING! I have tears listening to drummer play over the out vamp! Ridiculous and awe inspiring... Thank you for posting this beautiful gem!!!
Brad takes the standard rendition to a new level. A large amount of ‘white space’, the development of motives, abandoning the traditional background dominated by linear jazz lines, and full of rhythmic vocabulary. With Brad, jazz piano enters the wonderful contemporary era.
this is some of the greatest performances by everyone of these players -every musician in this group is GENUIS. Never heard anything so inspired and musically creative forever-I don't know how you could improve on this. This is the first time I heard of this group and I thought I heard everyone. MASTERFUL! JUST MASTERFUL>
creative, original , yet thought-out subconsciously I feel-Back influenced- Sounds like a Bach invention. Of course to be compared to that is quite a complement. Very fresh- Where have you been my whole life!! You ae an excellent player and composer yet has a spontaneous feeling. Swings also. You are not playing cliché licks to my ear. You are quite a player musician. WOW
@@Pijanoo He improvises like that all the time. Of course it's not pre-composed. That would be insane to remember. The only thing that's composed are the chord changes that he loosely improvises around.
If JS Bach played jazz, he’d be snapping his fingers to this one. And even not, he’d certainly hear the musicianship. A musically technical masterpiece beautifully performed.
@@ejb7969 a thousand times better? yer a quantifying, quantifiably laughable lad. just cuz his harmonies and banging touch don't fizzle your pickle, don't mean they are 1000th as good as Jarrett's. ridiculous comment of the millennium. He's too good a pianist, and this is at much too high a level for you to make such a stupid evaluation.
I'm pretty sure the late grate Barry Harris would have a lot to say about this and it wouldn't be good, as for me love Barry's playing but I love t too, I'm just not sure what to call it
Call it Bill Evans meets Keith Jarrett on the way to a Lenny Tristano concert and they all get together afterwards in the Village for a 3 handed rendition of All the Things you Are . And no, Barry wouldn't like it, and he would tell you so.
Il se bat encore avec des formes d'articulations melodique complètement périmées, empruntées à la musique classique européenne qui n'ont jamais su feconder l'esprit mélodic qui regne depuis l'ère du bebop
@@IssaSouriant Qu'importe, pour ma part je m'interroge aussi vraiment sur ce que Mehldau a apporté de neuf depuis Jarrett, Corea etc avec la sensation que ceux qui l'encensent ne connaissent rien à l'histoire du piano...
@@SELMER1947 Meldhau est un très bon pianiste de jazz je comprends pas l'intérêt de savoir si oui où non il a révolutionné la musique où pas, et si jamais ce n'est pas le cas je ne comprends pas non plus le problème. Cependant je connais énormément de gens dont des musiciens qui adorent sa musique et un bon tiers des pianistes de jazz actuel l'ont écouté et relevé à un moment, donc son impact sur le son du piano jazz est réel et palpable. Mais en réalité que ce soit le cas où pas je trouve que c'est assez malsain ce rapport à la musique et notamment le fait de vouloir idolâtrer des musiciens et comparer qui pèse le plus dans l'histoire. Malheureusement pour vous ce n'est pas vous qui décidez quelle direction prend la musique, donc a vous de produire quelque chose de conséquent où d'aller écouter des choses qui vous inspirent plutôt que de perdre votre temps a rabaisser des gens qui ont 100 fois notre niveau. Et d'ailleurs le jazz est aussi une tradition avant tout, qui est liée à une histoire précise et située et qu'il s'agirait de respecter surtout quand on s'appelle Jean-Jacques et qu'on habite dans le Morbihan (avec tout le respect pour les Jean-Jacques, je m'inclus dedans).
Everyone who thinks this intro is so original ... it's a messy takeoff on Keith Jarrett's version on "Tribute" from 1989, which will blow you away. Jarrett's harmony and counterpoint are stunning. Mehldau mostly just adds more banging and sludgy harmony.
Well I mean.. ummm.. er... I can kind of dig a lot of calculating and coordinating going on. But as of the first few minutes, I'm not inspired by it at all.. not moved.. feeling that I'm listening to pure *cold* mathematics without the beauty of Bach's 'mathematics.' Perhaps I don't know enough about theory. Or something. But I"m bailing out. All due respect, Brad. I'm going to try some other stuff here with you.
