MP3 Exclusives New Arrivals   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Metal Pop Punk R&B Rap/Hip Hop Reggae Rock   Top Downloads Features Archive Contests Control Panel MUSICBLITZ Alert!   METALBLITZ REGGAEBLITZ BLUESBLITZ Musician's Friend   Alt-Country Alternative Blues Electronic Jambands Jazz Hip Hop Metal Pop Punk R&B Reggae Rock   Getting Started Free Players	Welcome !      Brad Mehldau One of the best young jazz pianists around, Brad Mehldau has packed a lot of playing into his half-decade in the spotlight. Heavily influenced by masters like Keith Jarrett and Bill Evans, Mehldau isn’t shy about being compared to the greats: he had the audacity to name one of his albums Live At The Village Vanguard, like Evans and others before him, and pulled it off with the critics. Tabbed by Berklee College for the prestigious “Best All Around Musician” award when he was just a junior at his Connecticut high school, Mehldau went on to study music at the New School for Social Research in New York. One of his teachers was Jimmy Cobb, who hired the young pianist for his own band after graduation. But Mehldau then secured a spot with sax phenom Joshua Redman, teaming with drummer Brian Blades to form a dynamic young lineup. Mehldau went solo in 1994, forming a trio that released Introducing, a collection of standards plus a few Mehldau originals, on Warner Bros. The followup was more ambitious; 1997’s Art Of the Trio, Vol. 1 kicked off a series of four albums that explored the give and take between Mehldau, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy. In the midst of that cycle, Mehldau really went solo in 1998 with an unaccompanied piano album, Elegiac Cycle, giving his classical influences more reign. Two years and a lot of frequent-flier miles later, he was back with “Places,” a set of travel-related compositions that tried to capture some of the world’s best-known locales.     Brad Mehldau Los Angeles LiquidAudio Jazz Pianist Brad Mehldau’s ode to La-La Land is cool jazz that wears its egghead cred proudly. You’ll have to focus a bit to bring this one home.
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