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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.

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

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

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

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