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Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau has recorded and performed extensively since the early 1990s. Mehldau’s most consistent output over the years has taken place in the trio format. Starting in 1996, his group released a series of five records on Warner Bros. entitled The Art of the Trio. Mehldau also has a solo piano recording entitled Elegiac Cycle, and a record called Places that includes both solo piano and trio songs. Elegiac Cycle and Places might be called “concept” albums. They are made up exclusively of original material and have central themes that hover over the compositions. His newest project Ode (Nonesuch) – to be released March 12, 2012, features 11 previously unreleased songs composed by Mehldau written specifically for bandmates bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard. |
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