{"id":7143,"date":"2015-12-07T20:19:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T04:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7143"},"modified":"2015-12-07T20:27:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T04:27:12","slug":"monday-recommendation-brad-mehldau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2015\/12\/monday-recommendation-brad-mehldau\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Recommendation: Brad Mehldau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Brad Mehldau<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Years-Solo-Live-4CD-Boxset\/dp\/B014LS6244\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;qid=&#038;sr=&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20\"target=\"_blank\">10 Years Solo Live<\/a> (Nonesuch)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mehldau-Solo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mehldau-Solo.jpg\" alt=\"Mehldau Solo\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mehldau-Solo.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mehldau-Solo-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mehldau-Solo-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Mehldau assembled this five-hour account of his solo piano mastery from tapes of concerts he played from 2004 to 2014. Applying the power of his technique and the nuances of his harmonic thinking, he explores his own compositions and music by a dizzying variety of others, among them Johannes Brahms, Thelonious Monk, Harold Arlen, John Coltrane, Jerome Kern, Bobby Timmons, Leo Ferr\u00c3\u00a9 and rock heroes of his youth: Kurt Cobain, Lennon &#038; McCartney, Pink Floyd, Radiohead and The Beach Boys\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Brian Wilson. Mehldau makes it all work in a 4-CD or 8-LP continuum. Moving from a Brahms intermezzo to the Stone Temple Pilots\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Interstate Love Song,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for instance, he supplies the listener a feeling for the pieces\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 wistful minor-key harmonic kinship. Mehldau\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s extensive, clearly written program notes are especially helpful after the listener has absorbed the music.        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brad Mehldau, 10 Years Solo Live (Nonesuch) Mehldau assembled this five-hour account of his solo piano mastery from tapes of concerts he played from 2004 to 2014. Applying the power of his technique and the nuances of his harmonic thinking, he explores his own compositions and music by a dizzying variety of others, among them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-recommendations","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}