REVIEW Brad Mehldau Highway Rider (All About Jazz)

Tuesday March 09, 2010

Read the entire John Kelman review at All About Jazz

Mehldau’s recent work writing for orchestra—The Brady Bunch Variations for Orchestre Natonal D‘Îsle-de-France, and the song-cycle Love Sublime (Nonesuch, 2006), with soprano René Fleming, amongst others—has clearly given Mehldau the confidence to find, with Highway Rider, a nexus point where form-based improvisation and through-composition meet. Based around the preexisting chemistry of his regular trio with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard, but expanding to a quintet with longtime friend Joshua Redman on saxophones and, back from Largo, drummer Matt Chamberlain, Highway Rider is a double-disc suite that’s as much a soundtrack to an imaginary film as anything Mehldau’s ever done.

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