Brad Mehldau Melds Jazz and Prog Rock on ‘Jacob’s Ladder’
If you ask jazz’s Brad Mehldau, the path to God rides through the music of Rush, Yes, Gentle Giant, and Periphery as on his new album Jacob’s Ladder.
If you ask jazz’s Brad Mehldau, the path to God rides through the music of Rush, Yes, Gentle Giant, and Periphery as on his new album Jacob’s Ladder.
The year has offered a mountainous feast of sublime music. The 50 best albums of 2021 so far are an eclectic, forward-looking, and increasingly “woke” bunch.
The truly great thing about Brad Mehldau’s Variations on a Melancholy Theme is that it rewards casual as well as careful listening.
Joshua Redman's 1994 quartet of young jazz lions reunites as contemporary masters on RoundAgain.
Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau creates another hybrid project built on a layering of keyboards, drums, woodwinds, voices, and strings—with a gloss of politics and religion along the edges. Occasionally brilliant.
Reunited with drummer Jeff Ballard and bassist Larry Grenadier, Brad Mehldau dives back into the trio format with gusto.
Legendary pianist Brad Mehldau continues his tradition of unique musical interpretation by offering a dazzling twist on the works of Johann Sebastian Bach.