Brad Mehldau

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

The pianist Brad Mehldau grew up in Florida and Connecticut and studied in New York. He played with the saxophonist Joshua Redman and in 1995 started a trio of his own. He was often compared with Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett, but developed a way of playing of his own in which both hands play independent melodies, as in the music of Bach. Besides standards, Mehldau also plays pop songs, from Radiohead and Nick Drake to the Beatles. In this way he reached an audience beyond jazz. He has also written for classical singers and worked with the mandolin player Chris Thile.

Listening

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  River Man · Brad Mehldau, 1998
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  Knives Out · Brad Mehldau, 2005
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  Blackbird · Brad Mehldau, 1997
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  Exit Music · Brad Mehldau, 1998

Discography

Studio albums

• 1995Introducing Brad Mehldau
• 1998Ademuz
• 1999Elegiac Cycle
• 2000Places
• 2001Ma femme est une actrice (soundtrack)
• 2002American Dreams
• 2002Largo
• 2004Don’t Explain
• 2006Love Sublime
• 2006Metheny Mehldau
• 2007Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz Radio Broadcast
• 2010Highway Rider
• 2010Love Songs
• 2011Modern Music
• 2014Mehliana: Taming the Dragon
• 2017Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau
• 2018After Bach
• 2019Finding Gabriel
• 2019Mon chien Stupide (Bande originale du film) (soundtrack)
• 2020I Still Play
• 2020RoundAgain
• 2020Suite: April 2020
• 2021Variations On A Melancholy Theme
• 2022Jacob's Ladder
• 2022LongGone
• 2023Mehldau: The Folly of Desire
• 2024After Bach
• 2024Après Fauré
• 2024Between Bach / Fugue No. 20 in A Minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier Book I, BWV 865
• 2024Solid Jackson
• 2025Ride Into the Sun
• ?New York - Barcelona Crossing, Volume 1

Other work

• 1997The Art of the Trio, Vol. 1
• 1998Songs: The Art of the Trio, Vol. 3
• 2005Day Is Done

In School of Rock

The chapters, maps and magazine stories of School of Rock are currently available in Dutch only.

• Jazz Map^NL Map
• After Hours: Session 4^NL Reader

Mentioned in other articles

• The new piano trio GenreBrad Mehldau played songs by Radiohead and Nick Drake.

See also

• Introducing Brad Mehldau
• Elegiac Cycle
• Places
• Largo
• Highway Rider
• Modern Music
• Mehliana: Taming the Dragon
• The new piano trio