Brad Mehldau - Nearness - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

In 1999, for the 2nd year in a row, Brad Mehldau's piano trio topped the Down Beat Critic's Poll for Best Acoustic Jazz Group in the Talent Deserving Wider Recognition category. Art Of The Trio 4 Back At The Vanguard further justifies those accolades. This live set, the newest installment of his trio releases, will continue to build Mehldau's growing public recognition (marked by a recent article in Time Magazine) and his stellar profile in the jazz world. Features InchSolar,Inch InchLondon BluesInch and InchExit Music (For A Film).Inch Album Tracks 1. All the Things That You Are 2. Sehnsucht 3. Nice Pass 4. Solar 5. London Blues 6. I'll Be Seeing You 7. Exit Music for a Film

Mehldau performs four preludes, 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, sandwiched between two sections featuring the French composer's works. Discussing the Après Fauré album in his note, Mehldau says InchIf 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.InchThis is similar to my After Bach project,Inch he continues. InchThe connections are less overt, but Fauré's harmonic imprint is on all four. There is also a textural influence, in terms of how he presented his musical material pianistically-he exploited the instrument's sonority masterfully, as an expressive means. So, for example, in my first 'Prelude,' melody is welded to a continuous arpeggiation, both part of it and hovering above it; in my 'Nocturne,' it is possible to hear the harkening chordal approach in the opening of Fauré's No. 12.Inch Album Tracks 1. Nocturne No. 13 in B Minor, Op. 119 (1921) 2. Nocturne No. 4 in E-Flat Major, Op. 36 (C. 1884) 3. Nocturne No. 12 in E Minor, Op. 107 (1915) 4. Prelude 5. Caprice 6. Nocturne 7. Vision 8. Nocturne No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 74 (1898) 9. Piano Quartet No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 45 (C. 1887) III. Adagio Non Troppo (Extract)

Album Tracks 1. Special K 2. Maria Juanez 3. The Pink Panther 4. Puddin' Time 5. Dos Angelitos 6. Priority Soul! 7. Seconds Best 8. Fallen Feathers 9. Mr. Sneaky 10. Here Come Da Train