{"id":2397,"date":"2011-07-25T23:37:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T06:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2011-07-25T23:38:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T06:38:35","slug":"brad-mehldau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/brad-mehldau\/","title":{"rendered":"BRAD MEHLDAU"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2398\" title=\"Brad-Mehldau_Live-In-Marciac-M-Review-MarApr2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Brad-Mehldau_Live-In-Marciac-M-Review-MarApr2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Brad-Mehldau_Live-In-Marciac-M-Review-MarApr2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Brad-Mehldau_Live-In-Marciac-M-Review-MarApr2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>B<\/strong><strong>RAD MEHLDAU<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Live in Marciac<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Nonesuch]<\/p>\n<p>Brad Mehldau\u2019s restlessness is as much a force of nature as his musicianship, so it comes as no great shock that the master jazz pianist follows last year\u2019s double-disc quintet recording <em>Highway Rider <\/em>with another double album (plus DVD), this time solo. Mehldau is an explorer, in his compositions, his playing and\u2014to the delight of his loyal flock\u2014his eclectic choice of cover material. The music he interpreted for this French festival is no exception: Whether Radiohead or the Beatles, Cole Porter or Nirvana, Mehldau treats a melody as raw material to be deconstructed and pieced back together in often unexpected ways. Nick Drake\u2019s \u201cThings Behind the Sun\u201d is given a frisky reading almost Baroque in its regality. That\u2019s not to negate the power of his own writing, however; from introspective opener \u201cStorm\u201d to the hypnotic \u201cResignation,\u201d Mehldau reasserts himself as one of contemporary jazz\u2019s most consistently creative practitioners. \u2013JT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRAD MEHLDAU Live in Marciac [Nonesuch] Brad Mehldau\u2019s restlessness is as much a force of nature as his musicianship, so it comes as no great shock that the master jazz pianist follows last year\u2019s double-disc quintet recording Highway Rider with another double album (plus DVD), this time solo. Mehldau is an explorer, in his compositions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,1897,1898,1807,195],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2400,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions\/2400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}