{"title":"Brad Mehldau","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"apres-faure","title":"Après Fauré","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn \u003ci\u003eAfter Fauré\u003c\/i\u003e, Mehldau performs four Nocturnes, from a thirty-seven-year span of Gabriel Fauré’s career, as well as a reduction of an excerpt from the Adagio movement of his Piano Quartet in G Minor. Here Mehldau’s four compositions that Fauré inspired are presented in a group, bookended by two sections featuring the French composer’s works. Discussing the \u003ci\u003eAprès Fauré\u003c\/i\u003e album in his note, Mehldau says: “If the sublime foreshadows our mortality, this music might communicate the austerity of death – Fauré’s as it approached him, but also the apprehension of our own. We find a kinship with the composer finally, in the form of a question that he tossed off into the future, to us. I have composed four pieces to accompany Fauré’s music here, to share the way I have engaged with Fauré’s question, with you, the listener.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nonesuch","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50415557280075,"sku":"2190075","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Apr_C3_A8s_Faur_C3_A9_2d9b89d7_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726691222"},{"product_id":"after-bach-ii","title":"After Bach II","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Bach album comprises four preludes and one fugue from the \u003ci\u003eWell-Tempered Clavier\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the Allemande from the fourth Partita, interspersed with seven compositions or improvisations by Mehldau inspired by the complementary works of Bach – including Mehldau’s Variations on Bach’s Goldberg Theme. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMehldau, speaking of the “universality” of Bach’s music, says in his liner note: “The more you try to engage with him, the more your own personality becomes visible, unavoidably. You are not playing Bach – Bach is playing you, in the sense that he lays you bare... The greatest choice you make at all times is not out of an absence, but from what is there, in its totality. Specifically, it is the constant choice you make in how to negotiate between harmony and melody.” He continues, “This is why Bach is a model for me as a jazz musician. In my improvised solos, I want to make melodic phrases that carry harmonic implication, and create harmony that moves in a melodic fashion. This is a crucial component in the storytelling.” After Bach II follows 2018’s After Bach album, which originated in a work Mehldau first performed in 2015 – commissioned by Carnegie Hall, The Royal Conservatory of Music, The National Concert Hall, and Wigmore Hall – called Three Pieces After Bach. Two of Mehldau’s compositions from that program were presented on the After Bach album; his virtuosic third piece, Toccata, is included on \u003ci\u003eAfter Bach II\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nonesuch","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50415562948939,"sku":"2190074","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/After_Bach_II_36dd4cb7_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726691246"},{"product_id":"jacobs-ladder","title":"Jacobs Ladder","description":"\u003cp\u003eNonesuch Records releases Brad Mehldau’s \u003ci\u003eJacob’s Ladder. \u003c\/i\u003eThe album features new music that reflects on scripture and the search for God through music inspired by the prog rock Mehldau loved as a young adolescent, which was his gateway to the fusion that eventually led to his discovery of jazz. Featured musicians on the album include Mehldau’s label mates Chris Thile and Cécile McLorin Salvant, as well as Mark Guiliana, Becca Stevens, Joel Frahm, and others. The album’s first single, ‘maybe as his skies are wide’, builds off an interpolation of one portion of Rush’s classic ‘Tom Sawyer’.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nonesuch","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2","offer_id":50522545815883,"sku":"1156305","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50522545946955,"sku":"1143617","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/dd41f978-d58a-43f4-9d5e-db3395f3619c_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728011803"},{"product_id":"largo-2","title":"Largo","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrad Mehldau's acclaimed 2002 Jon Brion–produced album\u003ci\u003e Largo\u003c\/i\u003e receives its first-ever vinyl release.  Mehldau experiments with electronic instrumentation on this set of original and borrowed tunes, including Radiohead’s ‘Paranoid Android’ and The Beatles’ ‘Dear Prudence’. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e   On \u003ci\u003eLargo\u003c\/i\u003e, Mehldau, playing pianos, synths, and vibes, is joined by Larry Grenadier, Darek \"Oles\" Oleszkiewicz, and Justin Meldal-Johnson on bass; Matt Chamberlain, Jorge Rossy, and Jim Keltner on drums; Victor Indrizzo on drums and percussion; and producer Brion on guitar, guitar synth, and piano percussion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nonesuch","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50525088317771,"sku":"2022798","price":49.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Largo_24b79270_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728030268"},{"product_id":"your-mother-should-know-brad-mehldau-plays-the-beatles","title":"Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eYour Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles \u003c\/i\u003eis a live solo album that features the pianist and composer’s interpretations of nine songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and one by George Harrison.  Although other Beatles songs have long been staples of Mehldau’s solo and trio shows, he had not previously recorded any of the tunes on \u003ci\u003eYour Mother Should Know\u003c\/i\u003e.  The album ends with a David Bowie classic that draws a connection between The Beatles and pop songwriters who followed.  Your Mother Should Know was recorded in September 2020 at Philharmonie de Paris. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e    “There is an undisputed universality to The Beatles,” Mehldau says.  “Their music cuts across cultural and generational lines, as new listeners continue to discover it.  There is an immediacy and integrity to their songs that draws everyone in.  When I was getting started at the instrument, The Beatles were not on my radar yet, but a lot of the enduring piano-pop music I heard on the radio grew out of them.  That music became part of my personality, and when I discovered The Beatles later, it all tied together.  Their music, and its wide influence on other artists, continues to inform what I do.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nonesuch","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50525982884171,"sku":"2003885","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50525981573451,"sku":"2003884","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Your_Mother_Should_Know_Brad_Mehldau_Plays_The_Beatles_c7107469_thumbnail_40.jpg?v=1728038174"},{"product_id":"ride-into-the-sun","title":"Ride Into The Sun","description":"\u003cp\u003eNonesuch Records releases pianist and composer Brad Mehldau’s \u003cem\u003eRide into the Sun\u003c\/em\u003e, a songbook record of music by the late singer, songwriter, and guitarist Elliott Smith.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRide into the Sun\u003c\/em\u003e’s 10 Elliott Smith songs are complemented by four Mehldau compositions that he says are “inspired by, and reflect, Smith’s oeuvre.”  Also included are interpretations of Big Star’s ‘Thirteen’, which Smith also covered, and ‘Sunday’ by Nick Drake, who Mehldau says, “I look at in some ways as sort of Smith’s visionary godfather.”  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nonesuch","offers":[{"title":"2LP - Black","offer_id":51928054432075,"sku":"R0816-5097","price":42.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":51928054399307,"sku":"R0816-0540","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/RideintotheSun.jpg?v=1748529172"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/brad-mehldau.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}