Introducing Brad Mehldau

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Introducing Brad Mehldau
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Studio album by
Brad Mehldau
Released1995
RecordedMarch 13 and April 3, 1995
Studio Power Station (New York City)
Genre Jazz
Length55:41
Label Warner Bros.
9362-45997-2
Producer Matt Pierson
Brad Mehldau chronology
Consenting Adults
(1994)		Introducing Brad Mehldau
(1995)		 The Art of the Trio Volume One
(1996)

Introducing Brad Mehldau is an album by pianist and composer Brad Mehldau, released on the Warner Bros. label in 1995. [1] [2]

Contents

Background and reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [4]

Mehldau in 2023, reflecting on the existence of two of his trios on the release, wrote: "What you hear is two records in one – my voice, I think, but mediated by all those great musicians who, by my lights, already had their own sound as well." [5]

AllMusic awarded the album 4 stars and in its review by Scott Yanow, called it "a fine start to what should be a productive career". [1]

Track listing

All compositions by Brad Mehldau except as indicated

  1. "It Might as Well Be Spring" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) - 7:46
  2. "Countdown" (John Coltrane) - 4:12
  3. "My Romance" (Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) - 6:23
  4. "Angst" - 6:11
  5. "Young Werther" - 7:11
  6. "Prelude to a Kiss" (Duke Ellington) - 10:00
  7. "London Blues" - 7:00
  8. "From This Moment On" (Cole Porter) - 6:33
  9. "Say Goodbye" - 9:25

Personnel

Band

Production

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Yanow, Scott. "Brad Mehldau Introducing Brad Mehldau - Review". Allmusic . Retrieved 2014-01-23.
  2. ↑ "Discography of Brad Mehldau" . Retrieved 2014-01-23.
  3. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 988. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ↑ Swenson, John (1999). The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide . Random House. Retrieved 23 September 2019. Brad Mehldau
  5. ↑ Mehldau, Brad (2023). Formation: Building a Personal Canon, Part One. Equinox. pp. 259–260. ISBN   978-1-80050-313-7.
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