Songs: The Art of the Trio Volume Three

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Songs: The Art of the Trio Volume Three
The Art of the Trio Volume Three.jpg
Studio album by
Brad Mehldau
ReleasedSeptember 15, 1998
RecordedMay 27 & 28, 1998
Studio Right Track (New York City)
Genre Jazz
Length59:15
Label Warner Bros.
9362-47051-2
Producer Matt Pierson
Brad Mehldau chronology
Live at the Village Vanguard: The Art of the Trio Volume Two
(1997)		Songs: The Art of the Trio Volume Three
(1998)		 Elegiac Cycle
(1999)

Songs: The Art of the Trio Volume Three is an album by American pianist and composer Brad Mehldau released on the Warner Bros. label in 1998. [1] [2] It was produced by Matt Pierson. [3]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]

AllMusic awarded the album 4½ stars and in its review by Steve Huey, stated "this is a fine program easily recommended to straight-ahead collectors". [1] For the New Statesman , Richard Cook wrote that "Songs enters the piano tradition without a murmur of protest while still offering music that is bursting loose of the accepted trinity of piano, bass and drums." [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Brad Mehldau except as indicated

  1. "Song-Song" - 6:29
  2. "Unrequited" - 6:07
  3. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 5:57
  4. "Exit Music (For a Film)" (Radiohead) - 4:23
  5. "At a Loss" - 6:19
  6. "Convalescent" - 5:58
  7. "For All We Know" (J. Fred Coots, Sam M. Lewis) - 7:59
  8. "River Man" (Nick Drake) - 4:47
  9. "Young at Heart" (Carolyn Leigh, Johnny Richards) - 6:20
  10. "Sehnsucht" - 4:56

Personnel

Production

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Huey, Steve. "Brad Mehldau The Art of the Trio, Vol. 3: Songs - Review". Allmusic . Retrieved 2014-01-24.
  2. ↑ "Discography of Brad Mehldau" . Retrieved 2014-01-24.
  3. 1 2 Cook, Richard (November 6, 1998). "Keyed Up". New Statesman . pp. 40–41.
  4. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 989. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ↑ Swenson, John (1999). The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide . Random House. Retrieved 23 September 2019. Brad Mehldau
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