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Elegiac Cycle (CD)

By: Brad Mehldau (Artist)

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Brad Mehldau Artist Snapshot:

In the mid-'90s, pianist Brad Mehldau made a major splash in the New York jazz scene. An improvisor possessed of creativity and originality in equal measure, he introduced a classical impressionist influence into modern jazz. Working primarily in a trio setting, he drew comparisons with such other idiosyncratic innovators as Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett, and used everything from Tin Pan Alley to Radiohead and Nick Drake as source material.

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DISC 1 for Elegiac Cycle (CD) Album By Brad Mehldau (Artist)
1   Bard
2   Resignation
3   Memory's Tricks
4   Elegy For William Burroughs And Allen Ginsberg
5   Lament For Linus
6   Trailer Park Ghost
7   Goodbye Storyteller
8   Ruckblick
9   Bard Returns, The
 

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JazzTimes (10/99, p.78) - "...in a formula-ridden world, the music fits no formula... he succeeds best when he reaches deepest into his jazz sensibility and finds... expression akin to the spirit of Lennie Tristano... intriguing..."

Title Note

Solo performer: Brad Mehldau (piano).

Recorded at Mad Hatter Studios, Los Angeles, California on February 1 & 2, 1999. Includes liner notes by Brad Mehldau.

An avid student of classical music and a fan of pop, Brad Mehldau always seemed like something more than a jazzman, even though most of his '90s recordings found him prospering in the piano trio format. By the end of the decade, he was ready to break from his past and explore new directions via his first solo piano album. Like DEATH & THE FLOWER by Keith Jarrett (a touchstone by virtue of his non-bluesy, impressionistic approach to jazz), ELEGIAC CYCLE is at least ostensibly a "concept album" about the way communing with mortality brings one a greater appreciation of life.

Freed even from the minor restrictions of post-bop, Mehldau lets his fingers run free, indulging the classical side of his muse more fully than ever before. In these often somber but always inviting pieces, his quiet dynamism melds the modernism of Jarrett with the concise archness of Satie and the guarded romanticism of Debussy. ELEGIAC CYCLE goes beyond categories like jazz or classical; it's simply an album of intense, emotional compositions by a gifted young artist.

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