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2012: Esperanza Spalding - Radio Music Society |
Jazz-Pop, Contemporary Jazz |
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 Artist: Esperanza Spalding Album: Radio Music Society Label: Concord Jazz Year: 2012 Format: Flac Size: 202,00 MB + 171,82 MB Hailed as a prodigy on the acoustic double bass within months of first touching the instrument as a 15-year-old, Esperanza Spalding has emerged as a fine jazz bassist, but has also distinguished herself playing blues, funk, hip-hop, pop fusion, and Brazilian and Afro-Cuban styles as well. Born in Portland, OR in 1984, Spalding was not well served by the public school system and soon dropped out of classes to be home-schooled. Returning to the public school system at 15, she encountered her first acoustic bass (she had already been playing violin for several years) and immediately took to the instrument. Dropping out of school again, Spalding enrolled in classes at Portland State University as a 16-year-old, and earned her B.A. in just three years and was immediately hired as an instructor in … » Read more~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide |
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2011: Philip Catherine - Plays Cole Porter |
Post-bop, Smooth & Lounge |
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 Artist: Philip Catherine Album: Plays Cole Porter Label: Challenge Year: 2011 Format: Flac Time: 56:35 Size: 301 MB + 130 MB Philip Catherine, Belgium’s most renowned guitarist has put together a beautiful collection of Cole Porter compositions. Hein Van der Geyn’s arrangements are interpreted with freedom and simplicity allowing Philip Catherine to convey his highly emotional lyricism of expression. This release makes for a wonderful addition to any Cole Porter fan’s library. ~ jazzmessengers.com |
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1917-1997: RCA Victor 80th Anniversary (9CD) |
Music » Jazz |
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 Artists: V.A. Album: RCA Victor 80th Anniversary (8 CDs + Bonus Disc) Label: RCA Victor Years: 1917 - 1997; release: 1997 Format, bitrate: MP3 @320 Size: 38,81 MB, 156,91 MB, 140,15 MB, 138,08 MB, 143,94 MB, 147,94 MB, 212,38 MB, 204,53 MB, 204,41 MB. AMG Rating:  This is an attractive eight-CD set, whose discs are also available as eight separate releases, that could have been a great reissue but settled for being merely quite good. To celebrate the 80th anniversary of the first jazz recording, RCA released a disc apiece covering each of the past eight decades. In listening to the music straight through, one becomes aware of RCA's strengths and weaknesses as a jazz label. Victor was one of the most important jazz labels during the 1920s, '30s and '40s, catching on to bebop a little late (1946) but still documenting many classic recordings. By the 1950s, the label's attention was wandering elsewhere; it missed free jazz almost completely in the '60s, and in the last three decades has only had a few significant artists, mostly Young Lions whose output sounds conservative compared to the earlier masters. This reissue is particularly strong during the first three discs, and then for some reason (starting with disc four) commits a major error in departing from programming the music in strict chronological order (although each disc does stay within the ten-year period). Also, the selection of the performances is much better in the earlier decades (especially the 1917-29 set) than during the past two decades. There are many highlights throughout the large undertaking, with such artists as the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Jelly Roll Morton, Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Carter, Art Tatum, Charles Mingus, Red Allen, Bud Powell, Sonny Rollins, Buddy Rich, Gil Evans, the Brecker Brothers, Roy Hargrove, Marcus Roberts, Steve Coleman and Dominique Eade among the many represented. In addition, a "bonus" disc has two numbers by the ODJB (including for the second time "Livery Stable Blues") and a previously unreleased Mingus dramatic piece "A Colloquial Dream." If only some better planning had gone into the later discs. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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2011: Keith Jarrett - Rio |
Modern Jazz, Freejazz |
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 Artist: Keith Jarrett Album: Rio Label: ECM Year: 2011 Format: FLAC Size: 201.00 MB +129.69 MB AMG Rating: Rio, the double-disc solo concert recording by Keith Jarrett, marks his 40th anniversary as an ECM recording artist; coincidentally, Facing You, his debut for the label, was a solo piano recording, though cut in a studio. Many of Jarrett's improvised solo concerts have represented benchmarks in his career: The Köln Concert, The Sun Bear Solo Concerts, and La Scala among them. His musical and philosophical approach toward recording this way has evolved and been refined over the decades, but nowhere more so than on Rio, a complete document of his show at the Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro in April of 2011. The date is a hint that something very different is afoot here: Jarrett's live offerings are usually issued years after an event instead of mere months afterwards (the pianist called label boss Manfred Eicher from the airport after the show. After one listen, it becomes obvious Rio is indeed very special. It puts on aural display Jarrett as a virtually boundless musician, whose on-the-spot, wide-ranging ideas are executed with astonishing immediacy and dexterity; this music is passionate, poetic (often songlike), and stands outside the confines of genre. The strength of his pianism and diversity in his thought and philosophy between music and everyday life dissolve into the freest improvisation he has ever displayed on record. In these 15 untitled selections, Jarrett allows everything from his sense impressions about the city, the country, cultural and social history, the evening, and the audience to simply have their way with him spontaneously. The effect is intimate, energetic, emotionally engaged, and wildly expressive and imaginative. What begins in the knotty dissonance and counterpoint of the first selection gives way to the elliptical on the second to something approaching song for the remainder of disc one's six selections. By the beginning of disc two, the listener is transfixed as jazz improvisation melds seamlessly into nearly classical investigations of detail, harmony, and nuance; simultaneously, folk traditions, blues and ballad forms, and rhythmic invention are all encased in a pervasive lyricism that possesses pianist and audience alike. Even music that sounds "familiar" is based on preconceived notions by the listener, since nothing approaching what is here actually exists in Jarrett's recorded catalog. Rio is therefore the new standard by which the pianist's future solo recordings will be judged, and perhaps also sets the bar for any other player who attempts the same. ~ Thom Jurek, All Music Guide |
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1997: Chick Corea & Gary Burton - Live at the Munich Philharmonie |
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 Artist: Chick Corea & Gary Burton Film: Live at the Munich Phillarmonie Label: TDK Year: 1997, release 2008 Format: AVI Time: 100 min Size: 2 x 451.00 MB + 395.91 MB Chick Corea and Gary Burton, both hugely influential figures in the world of jazz and pioneers of Jazz-Rock, first recorded together in 1978 resulting in the album Crystal Silence. Almost 20 years later they renewed this fruitful collaboration at the Munich Philharmonie to a rapturous response, a concert captured on this DVD.
"... one of the finest jazz productions that has been released on any media. Burton and Ozone are both phenomenal musicians and both sound and vision are also up to the very high standard of the music ... the duo is a complete entity in itself, brought about by the sheer brilliance of the performers." ~ Music Web on DV-JGBMO |
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2009: Abe Rabade - Piano Solo |
Music » Jazz |
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 Artist: Abe Rabade Album: Piano Solo Label: Karonte - Nuba Records Year: 2009 Format, bitrate: FLAC / Mp3, 320 kbps. Size: 201.00 MB +179.19 MB / 107.24 MB, with scans. Abe Rabade (Santiago de Compostela, 1977) takes many things that they think up as his head. With a musical philosophy opened for all the influences, on eight octaves of his favorite way, the piano, they happen to equal parts the force of Jimi Hendrix, Shrimp or John Coltrane. It uses epithets with rigor, says to be full with being politically correct and is defined as nostalgic of the CD and of the vinyl, but it defends the jazz at any cost, with arguments, and he even believes that the proper Bach would be a big musician of this style if it was between us. |
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1955-1957: Julie London - The Ultimate Collection (3CD) |
Music » Jazz » Vocal Jazz |
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 Artist: Julie London Album: The Ultimate Collection (3CD) Label: EMI Years: 1955-1957; release: 1998 Format, bitrate: FLAC Size: 451.00 MB + 283.86 MB, with scans. Julie London Began Singing in Public in her Teens, Prior to her First Movie Appearance. She was Discovered by Sue Carol While She was Working as an Lift Operator. She Recorded 32 Albums in a Career that Began in 1955 with a Live Performance at the 881 Club in Los Angeles. She was Named One of Billboard's Most Popular Female Vocalists for 1955, 1956, and 1957. This Three CD Set Includes 45 of her Very Best 50s Recordings Including her Massive World-wide Hit "Cry Me a River" as Well as "Fly Me to the Moon", "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend", "Blue Moon", "When I Fall in Love", "Mad About the Boy", "Love Letters" and "You Made Me Love You". ~ Amazon.com |
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1994: Perry Como - The Love Songs |
Jazz-Pop, Compilation |
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 Artist: Perry Como Album: The Love Songs Label: Music Collection International Year: 1994 Format: Flac Time: 56:48 Size: 156 MB + 156 MB with scans One of the most popular vocalists between the end of World War II and the rise of rock & roll in the mid-'50s, Perry Como perfected the post-big-band approach to pop music by lending his own irresistible, laid-back singing -- influenced by Bing Crosby and Russ Columbo -- to the popular hits of the day on radio, TV, and LP. Both his early traditional crooning style plus his later relaxed manner and focus on novelty material were heavily indebted to Bing Crosby, though Como's appeal during the early '50s was virtually unrivaled...~ John Bush, All Music Guide |
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2007: SPJ - 6º Seminario Permanente de Jazz de Pontevedra |
Music » Jazz |
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 Artist: SPJ Album: 6º Seminario Permanente de Jazz de Pontevedra Label: Free Code Jazzrecords Year: 2007 Format: FLAC Size: 532.44 MB + 298.37 MB with scans Permanent Seminar of Jazz Pontevedra has been eleven years since the referent of this musical style in Galicia, working on two basic pillars: the training of future musicians of this style and dynamism in the society through cycles of jazz, educational concerts for schoolchildren or editing recordings.
In these eleven years, SPJ has managed to lay their roots in Pontevedra, expanding its seed for the rest of the Globe of the hand of the two most outstanding musicians of the jazz Galician: Abe Rábade Charlín and Paco. |
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1994: Karrin Allyson - Azure-Te |
Music » Jazz » Vocal Jazz |
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 Artist: Karrin Allyson Album: Azure-Te Label: Concord Year: 1994; release: 1995 Format, bitrate: FLAC Time: 01:01:39 Size: 201.00 MB + 137.74 MB (With scans) Karrin Allyson is one of the best jazz singers to emerge in the 1990s. She is a masterful scatter, as she shows on some of these selections (including "How High the Moon" and "Yardbird Suite"), but she is also quite expressive on ballads (including "Blame It on My Youth" and "Some Other Time"). The strong backup musicians (a variety of top Kansas City players with guest spots for violinist Claude Williams and flügelhornist Mike Metheny) keep the music swinging. Highly recommended. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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2004: Julia Hülsmann Trio with Anna Lauvergnac - Come Closer (Celebrating Randy Newman) |
Music » Jazz » Vocal Jazz |
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 Artist: Julia Hülsmann Trio with Anna Lauvergnac Album: Come Closer (Celebrating Randy Newman) Label: ACT Year: 2004 Format, bitrate: mp3, VBR Size: 101 Mb Hülsmann’s second project on ACT, ”Come Closer-Celebrating Randy Newman” features Anna Lauvergnac in arrangements that show a new and exiting side of Newman’s music, without compromising its narrative qualities. Lauvergnac digs deep into Newman’s stories, and provides a perfect example of how a sensitive performer can continue to show a new angle on well-known material, while staying true to its original intent. |
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1986: Steps Ahead - Live in Tokyo 1986 |
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 Artist: Steps Ahead Film: Live in Tokyo 30-07-1986 Label: TDK Year: 1986 Format: DVD Time: 92 min Size: 7 x 500 MB + 329.23 MB + 17.84 MB (Cover) This Steps Ahead concert has both good and bad points. Michael Brecker's virtuosic tenor solos show a great deal of passion and creativity within the genre. Also Mike Maineri's vibes are an attractive part of the ensemble sound, making the R&B-ish unit sound like Spyro Gyra with guts. Unfortunately the rhythm section (which consists of guitarist Mike Stern, bassist Darryl Jones and drummer Steve Smith) is never subtle, the rhythms are bombastic and the electronics (including at one point a drum machine) are excessive. The solos might be fiery but the unimaginative backup makes this potentially super band often sound run of the mill and monotonous. There are much better Steps Ahead concerts to preserve than this one. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guise |
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1993: Lionel Hampton and his Golden Men of Jazz |
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 Artist: Lionel Hampton Film: Live at the Munich Phillarmonie Label: TDK Year: 1993 Format: DVD Time: 116 min Size: 14 x 500 MB + 312.88 MB + 3.50 MB (Cover) Lionel Hampton, one of music's greatest percussionists and the first jazz vibraphonist, performs live in concert on LIONEL HAMPTON AND THE GOLDEN MEN OF JAZZ. Since the 1930s Hampton has been respected as a dynamic and unique vocalist and percussion player. In this concert he is backed by a similarly legendary lineup of jazz musicians with decades of experience; the youngest of the group, saxophonist Benny Golson, was 64 at the time of the concert recording in 1993. Hampton himself was 84, and amazingly still retains the energy and enthusiasm that made him a standout musician to begin with. The performance captured here was such a success that the audience bestowed it with a twenty-minute ovation. A great show by virtuoso jazz musicians is captured on LIONEL HAMPTON AND THE GOLDEN MEN OF JAZZ. ~ cduniverse.com |
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1986: Carmen McRae - Live in Tokyo |
Music video |
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 Artist : Carmen McRae Album: Live in Tokyo Label: TDK Year: 1986, release: 2003 Format: DVD Time: 81 min Size: 13 x 500 MB + 340.43 MB + 10.96 MB (Cover) Jazz singer Carmen McRae sings 20 great tunes in this concert video, recorded during a 1986 engagement in Tokyo. Pianist Pat Coil, bassist Bob Bowman, and drummer Mark Pulice accompany Carmen as she sings such standards as "That Old Black Magic," "What a Little Moonlight Can Do," "No More Blues," "If I Were a Bell," and "I'm an Errand Girl for Rhythm." ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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1976: Cedar Walton Quartet - Live at the Umbria Jazz Festival |
Music video |
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 Artist : Cedar Walton Album: Live at the Umbria Jazz Festival Label: TDK Year: 1976, release: 2003 Format: DVD 5 Time: 62 min Size: 8 x 500 MB + 216.10 MB Four legends teamed up in 1975 and gave birth to the band named Eastern Rebellion: George Coleman, Sam Jones, Billy Higgins and Cedar Walton. TDK documents a concert that they gave a year later at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Orvieto, Italy.
Thirty years on, this band seems like a herald of things to come, taking the musical direction that was to find favour again in the 80s. The four musicians had played music at the highest level all their lives and gained their status as legends mostly in the important sideman function. Each of them had participated in many of jazz's great moments. All four shared the ability, documented on many albums, to inspire their fellow musicians to even greater heights.
Documented on many discs, the team comprised of Walton, Higgins and Sam Jones was one of the best rhythm groups of the Seventies. Backing tenors like Hank Mobley, Bob Berg and Clifford Jordan and indeed George Coleman was something like a speciality of theirs. The trio worked together like a dream, as Cedar Walton confirmed "With Billy, you were right in the music from the very first moment; you never had to warm up".
TDK releases this DVD of a jazz night with piano legend Cedar Walton in their series of Jazz greats. As it was recorded at the Umbria Festival in Italy in 1976, the video quality of the film does not always conform to highest present-day DVD standards. Nonetheless, this recording has considerable value among Jazz recordings because of its documentary character and the artistic excellence it portrays. ~ naxos.com |
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1991: McCoy Tyner - Live At The Warsaw Jamboree Jazz Festival [DVD] |
Hard-bop, Post-bop |
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![1991: McCoy Tyner - Live At The Warsaw Jamboree Jazz Festival [DVD]](http://jazzbluesclub.com/uploads/posts/1303353983_hhh.jpg) Artist: McCoy Tyner Album: Live At The Warsaw Jamboree Jazz Festival 1991 Label: TDK Year: 1991 Format: DVD 9 Time: 65 min Size: 11 x 500 MB + 115.65 MB This hour-long concert album offers a chance to hear McCoy Tyner in a rare solo performance. His playing is fast and daring, as the ideas tumble one after another in his improvisations, whether he is addressing an original like "Suddenly," an old favorite written by his old boss John Coltrane, "Giant Steps," or a ballad standard like "Darn That Dream." A virtual retrospective on a long career by a still-vital artist, Live in Warsaw offers the listener an opportunity to hear Tyner's mature reflections on the music of his past and present in an unfettered context. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide |
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2004: Varius Artist - Jazz-It! |
Jazz, Music video |
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 Artists: Varius Artist Album: Jazz-It! Label: TDK Release: 2004 Format: DVD 9 Total time: 150 Minutes Size:12 x 500 MB + 348.46 MB Total time: 150 MinutesThe TDK label has brought some astonishing jazz performances to the fore, and this release celebrates some of the very best from their back catalogue. Drawing on exclusive live performances, this is a great way to witness some incredible performers at the top of their game. Among them are Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers (performing "Blues March"), Oscar Peterson ("He Has Risen"), Dave Holland Quintet ("World Protection Blues"), Chick Corea & Gary Burton ("Four In One"), Herbie Hancock Trio ("Just One of Those Things"), and many others. ~ cduniverse.com |
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2005: Elvis Costello - Marian Mcpartland's Piano Jazz Radio Broadcast |
Vocal Jazz, Standards |
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 Artist: Elvis Costello Album: Marian Mcpartland's Piano Jazz Radio Broadcast Label: Jazz Alliance Year: 2005 Format, bitrate: Mp3, 320 kbps. Time: 53:40 Size: 124.94 MB + Scans. This is a straightforward CD release of a 2003 installment of Marian McPartland's long-running radio show Piano Jazz, in which each week she chats with a guest musician and accompanies them on the piano. For this episode, her guest happened to be Elvis Costello, and the former "angry young man" of the British new wave turns out to be a charming and articulate subject, discussing his career in music, the influence of his parents on his music (his father was a singer and trumpeter), the fine art of songwriting, interpretive singing, and working with Chet Baker. Costello also sings eight songs -- two of his own tunes and six jazz standards -- and is in fine voice here, displaying his knack for what he likes to call "blue ballads" such as "Gloomy Sunday" and "You Don't Know What Love Is," while his vocals mesh nicely with McPartland's spacious piano work and Gary Mazzaroppi's bass. This release sounds just like what it is, an informal radio session with the songs bookend by chat, and folks who prefer Costello in rock mode would be best off passing this by. But those interested in his softer side, as well as a perspective on this love of different forms of music will find this worth a listen. McPartland's fans will similarly be taken with her easy rapport with her guest, as well as her subtle but compelling piano work. ~ Mark Deming, All Music Guide |
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2011: Hiromi Uehara - Voice |
Music » Jazz » Fusion |
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 Artist: Hiromi Uehara Album: Voice Label: TELARC Year: 2011 Quality: MP3@320 kbps Size: 139.10 MB Pianist and composer Hiromi Uehara, whose passionate and incendiary keyboard work has been a shining light on the jazz landscape since her 2003 debut, believes that the voice that never speaks can sometimes be the most powerful of all.
Her newest release, a nine-song trio recording simply titled Voice, expresses a range of human emotions without the aid of a single lyric.
“When I play music, I realize that it really filters emotions,” says Hiromi. “I called this album Voice because I believe that people’s real voices are expressed in their emotions. It’s not something that you really say. It’s more something that you have in your heart. Maybe it’s something you haven’t said yet. Maybe you’re never going to say it. But it’s your true voice. Instrumental music is very similar. We don’t have any words or any lyrics to go with it. It’s the true voice that we don’t really put into words, but we feel it when it’s real.” >>> |
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2006: Brad Mehldau - Live in Marciac 2CD |
Music » Jazz » BeBop » Post-bop |
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 Artist: Brad Mehldau Album: Live in Marciac 2CD Label: Nonesuch Records Year: 2006, release: 2011 Format: FLAC Size: 212.00 MB + 207.42 MB Live in Marciac is a solo concert recording of Brad Mehldau from the famous Marciac Jazz Festival in southwest France. It is a double CD/DVD recording, and is the first DVD that Mehldau has ever released. When the cameras occasionally pan outward and show the outside environs, the viewer catches some of the atmosphere and colors of the setting – the concert begins in the soft evening sunlight and ends in the dark of night. The video also focuses on Mehldau’s hands at the piano a great deal. The recorded sound of the CD/DVD is clean and honest – it gives an accurate portrayal of how the piano sounded in that space on that particular evening, and allows the listener to concentrate solely on the music.
The DVD also offers an extra feature that is of potential interest to musicians and laymen alike – a “scrolling” transcription of Mehldau’s performance here of his own composition, Resignation. On the menu, the viewer has the option to view this transcription, which passes by on the screen in real time with the performance, or simply watch the concert. Resignation was transcribed by the French musician, Philippe André, who has made other transcriptions of Mehldau’s music, and the scrolling score, creatively done and beautifully rendered, was made by Craig Anderson, who has created two other scores of Mehldau compositions that can be viewed on the website here – Don’t Be Sad from Highway Rider, and Dreams from the record with Anne Sofie von Otter, Love Songs. The scrolling scores represent a new way to experience the music that combine a more conventional listening/studying aspect with a more here-and-now screen aesthetic.
There is a kind of narrative arc to this concert, which is something Mehldau has said he hopes to achieve in his performances. The concert is a mixture of originals and treatments of existing material. Of special interest here was Mehldau’s decision to revisit three songs back to back from his earlier solo album, Elegiac Cycle. They are Trailer Park Ghost, Goodbye Storyteller and the aforementioned Resignation. They form an intense middle section of the concert, and when Goodbye Storyteller segues into Radiohead’s Exit Music (for a Film), we reach what could be considered the emotional center of the evening – there is a palpable release of tension in the remainder of the concert after Exit Music. The second encore, My Favorite Things, received its first solo performance here by Mehldau, and he has subsequently gone on to make it a staple in his concerts. ~ bradmehldau.com |
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