Brad Mehldau
Bradford Alexander "Brad" Mehldau (/ˈmɛlˌdaʊ/; born August 23, 1970) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.
Mehldau studied music at The New School, and toured and recorded while still a student. He was a member of saxophonist Joshua Redman's Quartet with bassist Christian McBride and drummer Brian Blade in the mid-1990s, and has led his own trio since at least 1992. His first long-term trio featured bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy; in 2005 Jeff Ballard replaced Rossy. These bands have released a dozen albums under the pianist's name.
Since the early 2000s Mehldau has experimented with other musical formats in addition to trio and solo piano. Largo, released in 2002, contains electronics and input from rock and classical musicians; later examples include touring and recording with guitarist Pat Metheny, writing and playing song cycles for classical singers Renée Fleming and Anne Sofie von Otter, composing orchestral pieces for 2009's Highway Rider, and playing electronic keyboard instruments in a duo with drummer Mark Guiliana.
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ALBUMS
- Mehliana: Taming the Dragon released: 2014
- Modern Music released: 2011
- Live at Birdland released: 2011
- Live in Marciac released: 2011
- Love Songs released: 2010
- Highway Rider released: 2010
- Salzburg -Oct. 31. 2008 released: 2008
- Solo Concert in Toronto 2006 released: 2006
- Love Sublime released: 2006
- Metheny Mehldau released: 2006
- Live in Tokyo released: 2004
- American Dreams released: 2002
- Largo released: 2002
- Ma femme est une actrice released: 2001
- Deregulating Jazz released: 2000
- Places released: 2000
- Elegiac Cycle released: 1999
- The Art of the Trio, Volume 1 released: 1997
- Alone Together released: 1997
- Introducing Brad Mehldau released: 1995
- New York - Barcelona Crossing, Volume 1 released:
- 2000-05-13: Gorizia, Italy released:
- Don't Explain released:
Modern Music
Released 2011- Crazy Quilt (Patrick Zimmerli)
- Unrequited (Brad Mehldau)
- Generatrix (Patrick Zimmerli)
- Celtic Folk Melody (Patrick Zimmerli)
- Excerpt from Music for 18 Musicians (Steve Reich arr. Patrick Zimmerli)
- Lonely Woman (Ornette Coleman, arr. Patrick Zimmerli)
- Modern Music (Patrick Zimmerli)
- Elegia (Kevin Hays),
- Excerpt from String Quarter No. 5 (Philip Glass, arr. Patrick Zimmerli)
Ma femme est une actrice
Released 2001- Interviews
- Lullaby of Birdland
- Yvan au cinéma
- Another Shade of Blue
- Action
- London Calling
- Camping Next to Water
- Soho
- Annie's Lament
- Dans la loge
- Au petit matin
- Honeysuckle Rose
- Thai-Chi et Brie de Meaux
- Sonnet - 1
- Song Song
- Sonnet - 2
- Singalong Junk - Charlotte's Theme - 1
- Come on Let's Go
- Singalong Junk - Charlotte's Theme - 2
- Bedroom Dancing
- It's All Right Now
- Young at Heart
- The End
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Young at Heart
by: Brad MehldauYOUNG AT HEART
Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you
If you're young at heart
For it's hard, you will find, to be narrow of mind
If you're young at heart
You can go to extremes with impossible schemes
You can laugh when your dreams fall apart at the seams
And life gets more exciting with each passing day
And love is either in your heart or on its way
Don't you know that its worth every treasure on earth
To be young at heart
For as rich as you are it's much better by far
To be young at heart
And if you should survive to 105
Look at all you'll derive out of being alive
Then here is the best part
You have a head start
If you are among the very young at heart
And if you should survive to 105
Look at all you'll derive out of being alive
Then here is the best part
You have a head start