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by Brad Mehldau Trio
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The influences of the great trio of Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette cast a large shadow on almost every young brilliant jazz trio striving for creativity nowadays. Yet among all, it is Brad Mehldau's trio with Larry Grenadier and Jeff Ballard that has been the most daring and startlingly stylish group. Since my moving to New York City in 2004, I have been blessed to be able to see this trio's performance every winter at the jazz vintage of Village Vanguard. And of course, I was in the audience of the live serie which this new release, Live, was recorded. So much I appreciate that I can hear this wonderful live again on CD, I also have to admire how refreshing this music still is even after two years of the performance. This is not just because of the trio's expansive repertoire with tunes like "Wonderwall" from Oasis, "Black Hole Sun" from Soundgarden, and Radiohead and Nick Drake in their other releases; several Mehldau's own composition were also included, in addition to their re-inventive takes on classic standards of John Coltrane's and Ray Noble's. This trio has been playing steadily with each other (sometimes with guitarist Pat Metheny as a quartet) since 2005. Beyond Ballard's vigorous and dynamic rhythms and Grenadier's astutely contrived bass line, it is still hard not to be overwhelmed by Brad Mehldau's prodigious keyboard skills and motivic imaginations. His right and left hands fill the music with rich contrapuntal singings while making seamless rhythmic and melodic transformation and integration. Together, the trio exhibits more than any of their previous live recordings, their originality and progressive ideas in richly rhythmic and contrasting textures. This might sound crazy, but I have little trouble distinguishing my own cheering at the end of those songs played in the sets I went to. And I cannot wait to cheer again for them this June during the JVC Jazz Festival at the Carnegie Hall. The title of that concert, "A Taste of Genius", sums up just well for this recording too.
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