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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.

Thile and Mehldau make a pretty great duo, but it’s also an idiosyncratic one. For the most part this album feels like Thile is playing around in Mehldau’s jazz-oriented world.

Good jazz doesn't always have to knock down barriers. Sometimes it's just the sound of two friends catching up.

Twenty-five years into a great career, Brad Mehldau issues one of subtlest and most comfortable trio performances.

Brad Mehldau's career as a solo artist, in all senses of that word, takes a huge leap forward with this box set.

Antonio Sánchez's future is flourishing before our eyes; all we have to do is sit back and watch it unfold.

The duo of jazz pianist Brad Mehldau and drummer/electronic musician Mark Guilana creates complex soundscapes that are compelling, goofy, and complex.

A fine trio returns to recording with a book of alive, searching original tunes.

Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau takes the stage solo in south France, where all of his talents are laid bare for all to see and hear.

A small bit of inspiration and a whole lot of elegance go into this collaboration between jazz pianist Mehldau and opera star von Otter.

A storied delta pianist makes an album of classic New Orleans tunes, and it may be the best jazz of 2009.

With just his mandolin for company, Chris Thile's set included the expected folk tunes, some originals, and a sprinkling of the classical pieces that he found influential.

McPartland and Mehldau offer up an easy, painless introduction into the world of piano jazz.