Consenting Adults (album)

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Consenting Adults
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Studio album
Released2000
RecordedDecember 26, 1994
StudioNew York City, New York
Genre Jazz
Length65:03
Label Criss Cross
Producer Gerry Teekens
Brad Mehldau chronology
When I Fall in Love
(1993)
Consenting Adults
(1994)
Introducing Brad Mehldau
(1995)
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Consenting Adults is an album by MTB, a quintet consisting of Brad Mehldau (piano), Mark Turner (tenor sax), Peter Bernstein (guitar), Larry Grenadier (bass), and Leon Parker (drums).

Contents

Music and recording

The album was recorded in New York City on December 26, 1994. [2] The first track, "Belief", "starts out with some Charleston off beats before leading into a Messengers-type shuffle." [3]

The album was released in 2000. [3] Mehldau commented that "it captured all of us when we were right at the beginning of developing our own voices." [4] All members of the quintet went on to be successful jazz musicians. [4]

Track listing

  1. "Belief" (Leon Parker) – 6:50
  2. "Little Melonae I" (Jackie McLean) – 7:15
  3. "Phantasm" (Peter Bernstein) – 9:39
  4. "Afterglow" (Bernstein) – 5:49
  5. "Limbo" (Wayne Shorter) – 7:28
  6. "Consenting Adults" (Brad Mehldau) – 9:07
  7. "From This Moment On" (Cole Porter) – 6:09
  8. "Peace" (Horace Silver) – 5:59
  9. "Little Melonae II" (McLean) – 6:43

Personnel

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References

  1. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1423. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  2. "M.T.B.: Consenting Adults". Criss Cross Jazz. Retrieved December 3, 2016.
  3. 1 2 Hovan, C. Andrew (June 1, 2000) "M.T.B.: Consenting Adults". AllAboutJazz.
  4. 1 2 Parker, Chris (January 20, 2012) "Consenting Adults". BBC Music Magazine.