Last Saturday in Milan, Brad Mehldau was awarded the fifth annual Premio Blue Note prize for the best in jazz and classical music. His trio, Larry Grenadier on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums, played four sold-out sets over two nights at the city's Blue Note club March 14 and 15.
Their forthcoming two-cd album, The Brad Mehldau Trio Live, out next Tuesday, features two-and-a-half hours of music selected from four nights at New York's Village Vanguard, with original tunes by Brad plus songs by John Coltrane, Chico Buarque, Oasis, and Soundgarden. With CDs purchased in the Nonesuch Store come MP3s of the album at no additional charge, available on release date. To pre-order now, click here.
Also available for purchase, exclusively from the Nonesuch Store, is an album of 15 MP3s of all three Friday-night sets the Trio played during that Vanguard residency, with more than three hours of music from start to finish. Among the MP3s are works by Brad, Thelonious Monk, Benny Goodman, Paul Simon, and Radiohead. To pre-order The Complete Friday Night Sets MP3s, available for download on March 25, click here.