Anything Goes (Brad Mehldau album)

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Anything Goes
Anything Goes cover.jpg
Studio album by
Brad Mehldau
ReleasedFebruary 24, 2004 [1]
RecordedOctober 8–9, 2002 [2]
Studio Avatar, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length62:59
Label Warner Bros.
Producer Matt Pierson, Brad Mehldau
Brad Mehldau chronology
Largo
(2002)		Anything Goes
(2002)		 Live in Tokyo
(2003)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [3]
Now Red N.pngRed N.pngBlank N.PNGBlank N.PNGBlank N.PNG [4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [5]
Pitchfork 7.8/10 [6]
Tom Hull B+ [7]

Anything Goes is a contemporary jazz album by the Brad Mehldau trio. The title track is Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" arranged for the trio. The album, like many of Mehldau's other albums, contains several jazz arrangements of pop/rock songs, including "Still Crazy After All These Years" by Paul Simon, and "Everything in Its Right Place" by Radiohead. [2]

Contents

Reception

Tim Perlich of Now stated, "Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau has never been much of a risk-taker, preferring instead to straddle the thin line that divides the progressively minded traditionalists and the conservative modernists. On the disappointing Anything Goes, Mehldau surrenders to his commercial impulses and adopts the clichéd contemporary pop-jazz album formula." [4] John Fordham of The Guardian wrote, "As before, it's a mix of standards, quirkily personal choices and a Radiohead theme, but Anything Goes is likely to rank very high in the Mehldau trio list." [3] Matt Collar of AllMusic commented, " Anything Goes moves from the expected to the inspired and that alone makes this worth a listen." [2]

Track listing

  1. "Get Happy" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 9:47
  2. "Dreamsville" (Raymond B. Evans, Jay Livingston, Henry Mancini) – 5:03
  3. "Anything Goes" (Cole Porter) – 7:08
  4. "Tres Palabras" (Osvaldo Farrés) – 5:01
  5. "Skippy" (Thelonious Monk) – 5:24
  6. "Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington) – 6:43
  7. "Still Crazy After All These Years" (Paul Simon) – 5:21
  8. "Everything in Its Right Place" (Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood) – 6:55
  9. "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin, Geoff Parsons, James John Turner Phillips) – 6:48
  10. "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 4:49

Personnel

Credits

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References

  1. ↑ Ouellette, Dan (March 6, 2004) "Brad Mehldau Trio: Anything Goes". Billboard. Volume 116/10. p. 35.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Collar, Matt "Brad Mehldau/Brad Mehldau Trio: Anything Goes: Review". AllMusic. Retrieved February 8, 2014.
  3. 1 2 Fordham, John (February 20, 2004) "Brad Mehldau, Anything Goes". The Guardian.
  4. 1 2 Perlich, Tim (4 March 2004). "Brad Mehldau Trio". NOW Magazine . Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  5. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 990. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  6. ↑ Deusner, Stephen M. (March 22, 2004). "Brad Mehldau: Anything Goes". Pitchfork. pitchfork.com . Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  7. ↑ "Tom Hull: Grade List: Brad Mehldau". Tom Hull . Retrieved 13 July 2020.
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