Where Do You Start

Where Do You Start
Studio album by Brad Mehldau Trio
Released	September 17, 2012
Recorded	November 17, 2008 and April 19, 2011
Studio	Avatar (New York City)
Genre	Jazz
Length	78:22
Label	Nonesuch 7559-79610 5
Producer	Brad Mehldau
Brad Mehldau chronology
Ode (2008–11) Where Do You Start (2008–11) Nearness (2011)

Where Do You Start is an album by the Brad Mehldau Trio released on the Nonesuch label in 2012. ^{[1] [2]}

Reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	80/100 [3]
Review scores
Source	Rating
All About Jazz	[4]
AllMusic	[1]
Financial Times	[5]
The Guardian	[6]
Jazz Forum	[7]
Jazzwise	[8]
Mojo	[3]
musicOMH	[9]
Tom Hull	A− [10]
Q	[3]

The album received generally favourable reviews with Metacritic giving it a score of 80% from 7 reviews. ^[11] AllMusic awarded the album 3½ stars and in its review by Matt Collar, states "Ultimately, Where Do You Start is an intimate, impressionistic, and probing release that should certainly appeal to longtime fans of Mehldau's nuanced jazz style". ^[1] The Guardian 's John Fordham observed "the dynamics and empathy of this ensemble remain pretty irresistible". ^[6] On All About Jazz , John Kelman noted "Where Do You Start isn't so much an alternative as it is further evidence—as if any were needed—of this tremendous trio's ability to take any material—old, new, borrowed or original—and make it firmly its own". ^[4]

BBC Music reviewer, Martin Longley commented "Where Do You Start revives the old Mehldau approach of covering songs from across the decades... Yet Mehldau’s method is so dominant that everything gravitates towards the trio’s signature sound, lending cohesion to a variegated crop... It all points to Mehldau entering a new prime phase in his career, both onstage and in the recording studio". ^[12] Phil Johnson of The Independent added, "There's not a duff track or dull moment in this 75 minutes of studio material..." ^[13]

Track listing

1. "Got Me Wrong" (Jerry Cantrell) - 5:24
2. "Holland" (Sufjan Stevens) - 8:46
3. "Brownie Speaks" (Clifford Brown) - 8:13
4. "Baby Plays Around" (Cait O'Riordan, Elvis Costello) - 10:07
5. "Airegin" (Sonny Rollins) - 6:23
6. "Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts) - 6:24
7. "Samba e Amor" (Chico Buarque) - 9:02
8. "Jam" (Brad Mehldau) - 5:26
9. "Time Has Told Me" (Nick Drake) - 8:30
10. "Aquelas Coisas Todas" (Toninho Horta) - 6:01
11. "Where Do You Start?" (Marilyn Bergman, Alan Bergman, Johnny Mandel) - 4:06

Personnel

• Brad Mehldau – piano
• Larry Grenadier – bass
• Jeff Ballard – drums

References

1. Collar, Matt. "Brad Mehldau Trio Where Do You Start - Review". Allmusic . Retrieved February 5, 2014.
2. "Discography of Brad Mehldau" . Retrieved February 5, 2014.
3. "Where Do You Start by Brad Mehldau Trio". Metacritic . metacritic.com. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
4. Kelman, John (September 11, 2012). "Brad Mehldau Trio: Where Do You Start album review @ All About Jazz". All About Jazz . Retrieved August 19, 2020.
5. Hobart, Mike (September 15, 2015). "Brad Mehldau: Where Do You Start". Financial Times . Retrieved February 26, 2021.
6. Fordham, G., Brad Mehldau Trio: Where Do You Start Review, The Guardian, September 19, 2012
7. Kałużny, Piotr. "Where Do You Start | Jazz Forum". Jazz Forum . Retrieved February 26, 2021.
8. Graham, Stephen (October 2012). "Review Search". Jazzwise . Retrieved November 26, 2020.
9. Paton, Daniel (September 17, 2012). "Brad Mehldau Trio – Where Do You Start". musicOMH . Retrieved July 10, 2018.
10. "Tom Hull: Grade List: Brad Mehldau". Tom Hull . Retrieved July 13, 2020.
11. Metacritic summary, accessed February 5, 2014
12. Longley, M., Brad Mehldau Trio Where Do You Start Review, BBC Music, accessed February 5, 2014
13. Johnson, Phil (September 16, 2012). "Album: Brad Mehldau Trio, Where Do You Start (Nonesuch)". The Independent . Retrieved August 19, 2020.