Long Ago and Far Away (Charlie Haden and Brad Mehldau album)

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Long Ago and Far Away
Long Ago and Far Away album.jpg
Live album by
Charlie Haden, Brad Mehldau
ReleasedOctober 2018
RecordedNovember 5, 2007
VenueChristuskirche (Mannheim, Germany)
Length71:49
Label Impulse!
Charlie Haden chronology
Time/Life
(2016)		Long Ago and Far Away
(2018)		Live At The Village Vanguard - Unissued Tracks
(2022)
Brad Mehldau chronology
Live in Marciac
(2006)		Long Ago and Far Away
(2007)		 Highway Rider
(2009)

Long Ago and Far Away is a duo album by Charlie Haden and Brad Mehldau. It was recorded in 2007 and released by Impulse! Records in 2018.

Contents

Music and recording

The music is from a 2007 concert at the Enjoy Jazz Festival in Mannheim, Germany. [1] The material is standards. [1] On "Au Privave", after the theme is stated, "a change of key signals a narrative switch to flurries of notes, trills and single note lines. Haden, unhurried, shifts harmonic focus underneath until the theme returns, pulled into fragments that lean back on the beat." [2]

Release and reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Financial Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Jazz Forum Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [3]
Jazzwise Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]

The album was released by Impulse! Records in 2018. [5] The AllMusic reviewer commented on the "casual intensity, and the willingness to commune with yearning lyricism one minute and dive into dark voids the next, that make Mehldau and Haden's duo work here so compelling." [1]

Track listing

  1. "Au Privave" - 9:55
  2. "My Old Flame" - 9.13
  3. "What'll I Do" - 12:00
  4. "Long Ago and Far Away" - 15:05
  5. "My Love and I" - 12:59
  6. "Everything Happens to Me" - 12.37

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Collar, Matt. "Charlie Haden / Brad Mehldau: Long Ago and Far Away". AllMusic . Retrieved November 28, 2018.
  2. 1 2 Hobart, Mike (October 26, 2018). "Charlie Haden & Brad Mehldau: Long Ago and Far Away – Unhurried and Imaginative" . Financial Times.
  3. ↑ Domagała, Adam. "Long Ago And Far Away | Jazz Forum". Jazz Forum (in Polish). Retrieved December 28, 2021.
  4. ↑ Fordham, John (December 2018). "Review Search". Jazzwise . Retrieved November 26, 2020.
  5. ↑ Casarotti, Luca (October 22, 2018). "Brad Mehldau / Charlie Haden: Long Ago and Far Away". AllAboutJazz.
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