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Brad Mehldau's Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles is due February 10, 2023, on Nonesuch Records. The live solo album features the pianist and composer’s interpretations of nine songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and one by George Harrison. Although other Beatles songs have long been staples of Mehldau’s solo and trio shows, he had not previously recorded any of the tunes on Your Mother Should Know. The album ends with a David Bowie classic that draws a connecti...

Grammy Award winning jazz pianist Brad Mehldau has recorded and performed extensively since the early 1990s. Mehldau’s most consistent output over the years has taken place in the trio format. Starting in 1996, his group released a series of five records on Warner Bros. entitled The Art of the Trio (recently re-packaged and re-released as a 5-Disc box set by Nonesuch in late 2011). During that same period, Mehldau also released a solo piano recording entitled Elegiac Cycle, and a record called...

Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles finds the acclaimed jazz pianist performing 10 reinterpretations of songs by the Fab Four.

Brad Mehldau’s new album Jacob’s Ladder is inspired by scripture, spirituality and the prog rock that led to his discovery of jazz.

Brad Mehldau Pushes Forward on ‘Variations on a Melancholy Theme’ The truly great thing about Brad Mehldau’s Variations on a Melancholy Theme is that it rewards casual as well as careful listening. Variations on a Melancholy Theme Brad Mehldau 11 June 2021 It doesn’t seem that long ago that Brad Mehldau was angering jazz purists with his 2002 experimental album Largo, only to follow it up with the more apologetically conventional Anything Goes two years later. That would be pianist/c...

By Adam Feibel Brad Mehldau’s latest album is called  Variations on a Melancholy Theme and features the pianist and composer performing with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Combining classical form and jazz harmonization, the album comprises a theme and 11 variations, followed by a cadenza, a postlude and an encore. “I imagine it as if Brahms woke up one day and had the blues,” Mehldau says. “The theme itself has a wistful character, perhaps a feeling of resignation. There is some sen...