Friday, March 25, 2011

Brad Mehldau



The jazz genre, as defined in the new millennium, comprises several distinctive factions, one of which is a rather adventurous bunch that possess this rather pleasing habit of pushing the envelope (and occasionally, setting it on fire) on the "typical" definition of how jazz should be in this post-modernist age. These adventurous souls, heavily influenced by the intellectual approach of neo-classicists like John Cage and Steve Reich, have a penchant for introducing odd time signatures and odder instrumentation. making music that is breathtakingly brazen in their structures. One of the most visible figures amongst these bold practitioners is pianist Brad Mehldau, who has carved a reputation as one of the most intrepid performers, even within the circle of experimentalists to which he clearly belongs. Mehldau is known to take an intensely cerebral approach to performance, frequently engaging unusual harmonic constructions, mutated modal chords and an austere, Zen-like simplicity in overall presentation. Check out one of Mehldau's more well-known pieces, an audacious, freeform-jazz interpretation of Radiohead's dark Gothic crawl 'Exit Music (For a Film)', done with his customary technical assurance and an inherent sense of musical adventurism.

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