The Brad Mehldau Trio is in St. Louis this week for a four-night residency at Jazz at the Bistro starting tonight. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Brad's latest album, the two-cd Live recording from the trio, is "clearly among his best." The Post-Dispatch calls the new collection "a beautifully realized album, by turns lyrical and rambunctious ... As a jazz artist, Mehldau has few peers."
The Brad Mehldau Trio is in St. Louis this week for a four-night residency at Jazz at the Bistro starting tonight. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Brad's latest album, the two-cd Live recording from the trio, is "clearly among his best."
The record captures highlights from a weeklong residency by the group at New York's Village Vanguard; it's in the live setting, writes Post-Dispatch reviewer Calvin Wilson, "that the pianist has tended to stretch out most imaginatively and impressively." Wilson calls the new collection, with tunes by Brad and a broad range of songwriters, from John Coltrane to Chris Cornell, "a beautifully realized album, by turns lyrical and rambunctious."
"As a jazz artist," Wilson asserts, "Mehldau has few peers. And in embracing the past without forsaking the present, he has acted on an impulse that has distinguished jazz from its inception."
To read the review, visit stltoday.com.
