Brad Mehldau. Blues and Ballads. New York 2016.

Brad Mehldau Trio
•Brad Mehldau – piano
•Larry Grenadier – bass
•Jeff Ballard – drums

I don’t make a distinction between genres – I just write and play what I’m feeling. Music in itself doesn’t have genres – it’s just 12 different tones, and how you arrange them in a given point in time.” Dans les pommes avec Brad Mehldau, Bruno Pfeiffer, Liberation.

An influential figure in the jazz world since the late ’90s, Mehldau has subtly transformed not only the way modern jazz is played, but also the repertoire from which musicians draw inspiration. He was one of the first jazz artists to rework modern alt-rock songs by the likes of Radiohead and Nirvana, imbuing them with a delicacy and harmonic nuance that both celebrated the original recordings and recontextualized them within the jazz canon.

Blues and Ballads is a piano…