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10 Years Solo Live

Brad Mehldau

SKU: 0075597949902

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  • Genre: Jazz
  • Label: Nonesuch
  • Released Date: 15th October 2015
  • Buying Format:
    8LP Box Set

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Brad Mehldau’s 10 Years Solo Live is an eight-LP vinyl box set culled from 19 live recordings made over a decade of the pianist’s European solo concerts and is divided into four thematic subsets of four sides each: Dark/Light, The Concert, Intermezzo/Rückblick, and E Minor/E Major. 10 Years Solo Live will be released first on vinyl only, and then on CD and digitally in November.

As Mehldau explains in his liner note for the album, “Although it totals around 300 minutes, the order of songs is not arbitrary, and I have tried to tell a story from beginning to end in the way I’ve sequenced it.” He continues, “There is a theme and character given to each four-side set.” Of the Dark/Light theme, he says, “In concerts, I find that I contrast dark and light emotional energies and highlight the way they depend on each other. Sides 1–4 focus on this dichotomy in pairs, beginning with the dark energy of Jeff Buckley’s ‘Dream Brother’, which is followed by the grace of Lennon/McCartney’s ‘Blackbird’.” He further says, “Although the songs on Sides 5–8 (The Concert) come from different concerts, on this set, I arranged them in a sequence similar to that I would perform in a single concert in 2010–11,” he continues. “I’m thinking of the penultimate movement of Brahms’s Third Piano Sonata,” Mehldau says of the third set. “Rückblick means a look backward, perhaps a reappraisal. Brahms’s Intermezzo movement was a look back at what had taken place in his Sonata before moving to the final movement. Here, the listener is invited to look back to music that was recorded 10 or more years ago, in 2004 and 2005.” Mehldau explains that his approach to the sequence of the fourth set “is to focus on the rub between the keys of E minor and E major. I return to the theme of dark and light from the first set, now allowing the listener to focus on how ‘dark’ and ‘light’ might manifest in tonality.”

Brad Mehldau played in a number of different ensembles, including label mate Joshua Redman’s quartet, before becoming a bandleader himself in the 1990s. The Brad Mehldau Trio made eight recordings for Warner Bros., including five Art of the Trio albums (released as a boxed set by Nonesuch in 2011). The pianist’s years with Nonesuch have been equally productive, beginning in 2004 with the solo disc Live in Tokyo and including five trio records – Day Is Done, House on Hill, Live, Ode, and Where Do You Start – as well as a collaboration with soprano Renée Fleming, Love Sublime; a chamber ensemble album, Highway Rider; two collaborations with label mate Pat Metheny, Metheny Mehldau and Quartet; a CD/DVD set of live solo performances, Live in Marciac; and collaborations with Kevin Hays and Patrick Zimmerli on Modern Music. He also produced Redman’s 2013 release Walking Shadows. Last year, Nonesuch released the debut from Mehldau’s electric duo with Mark Guiliana, Mehliana: Taming the Dragon.

Mehldau has performed around the world at a steady pace for 25 years, with his trio, with other collaborators, and as a solo pianist, building a large and loyal audience. “It is actually strange, this whole business of performance. It is a direct, intense kind of empathy with a group of total strangers that lasts around 90 minutes. And then, it’s over, and everyone goes home. I go back to a hotel room and go to bed,” the pianist says in his 10 Years Solo Live note. “Something happened, but what was most vital about it can’t really be put in words. It is sweet, kind of bittersweet. In any case, it is not enough to say that the different audiences were important for the creation of this music. They were absolutely necessary; they were pivotal. Without those audiences, this music would not exist in the way it does.”

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Track Listings

DARK/LIGHT

Side 1

1. Dream Brother (13:34)
Jeff Buckley
Recorded 11/5/13 at the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, Hungary
2. Blackbird (6:30)
John Lennon/Paul McCartney
Recorded 9/18/11 at Auditori Palau de Congressos, Sala de Cambra, Girona, Spain

Side 2

1. Jigsaw Falling into Place (11:52)
Thom Yorke/Jonny Greenwood/Colin Greenwood/Phil Selway/Ed O'Brien
Recorded 9/17/11 at Oper Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
2. Meditation I – Lord Watch Over Me (8:45)
Brad Mehldau
Recorded 3/10/14 at Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Side 3

1. And I Love Her (15:59)
John Lennon/Paul McCartney
Recorded 11/08/13 at Théâtre de Vevey, Vevey, Switzerland

Side 4

1. My Favorite Things (12:14)
Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II
Recorded 3/16/10 at Conservatoire de Musique, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2. This Here (8:15)
Bobby Timmons
Recorded 3/16/10 at Conservatoire de Musique, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

THE CONCERT

Side 5

1. Smells Like Teen Spirit (9:37)
Kurt Cobain
Recorded 3/16/10 at Conservatoire de Musique, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

2. Waltz for J. B. (6:05)
Brad Mehldau
Recorded 7/15/10 at Castello degli Ezzelini, Bassano del Grappa, Italy

Side 6

1. Get Happy (12:31)
Harold Arlen/Ted Koehler
Recorded 10/30/10 at Shiftung Mozarteum Großer Saal, Salzburg, Austria
2. I’m Old Fashioned (5:20)
Jerome Kern/Johnny Mercer
Recorded 3/17/10 at Muziekgebouw Eindhoven, Frits Philipshal, Eindhoven, Germany

Side 7

1. Teardrop (14:13)
Grantley Marshall/Andrew Lee Isaac Vowles/Robert Del Naja/Elizabeth Fraser
Recorded 6/09/11 at Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozartsaal, Vienna, Austria
2. Meditation II – Love Meditation (5:53)
Brad Mehldau
Recorded 9/17/11 at Oper Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Side 8

1. Holland (11:06)
Sufjan Stevens
Recorded 11/08/13 at Théâtre de Vevey, Vevey, Switzerland
2. Knives Out (11:34)
Thom Yorke/Jonny Greenwood/Colin Greenwood/Phil Selway/Ed O'Brien
Recorded 03/29/11 at Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Sinopoli, Rome, Italy

INTERMEZZO/RÜCKBLICK

Side 9

1. Lost Chords (9:29)
Brad Mehldau
Recorded 7/10/05 at Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
2. Countdown (10:42)
John Coltrane
Recorded 7/10/05 at Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark

Side 10

1. On the Street Where You Live (7:08)
Frederick Loewe/Alan Jay Lerner
Recorded 7/10/05 at Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
2. Think of One (7:46)
Thelonious Monk
Recorded 8/05/04 at the Menton Music Festival, Basilique Saint Michel Archange, Menton, France

Side 11

1. Zingaro/Paris (10:42)
Antônio Carlos Jobim
Brad Mehldau
Recorded 7/10/05 at Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
2. John Boy (3:35)
Brad Mehldau
Recorded 03/29/11 at Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Sinopoli, Rome, Italy
3. Intermezzo in B-flat major, Op. 76: No. 4 (2:39)
Johannes Brahms
Recorded 6/07/11 at Stadttheatre, Wels, Austria
4. Junk (5:07)
Paul McCartney
Recorded 11/17/04 at Wigmore Hall, London, England

Side 12

1. Los Angeles II (5:16)
Brad Mehldau
Recorded 11/17/04 at Wigmore Hall, London, England
2. Monk’s Mood (4:45)
Thelonious Monk
Recorded 11/17/04 at Wigmore Hall, London, England
3. Knives Out (7:22)
Thom Yorke/Jonny Greenwood/Colin Greenwood/Phil Selway/Ed O'Brien
Recorded 11/17/04 at Wigmore Hall, London, England

E MINOR/E MAJOR

Side 13

1. La Mémoire et la Mer (10:37)
Léo Ferré
Recorded 9/10/11at Cité de la Musique, Salle Pleyel, Paris, France
2. Hey You (11:07)
Roger Waters
Recorded 9/18/11 at Auditori Palau de Congressos, Sala de Cambra, Girona, Spain

Side 14

1. Bittersweet Symphony/Waterloo Sunset (15:50)
Richard Ashcroft/Keith Richards/Mick Jagger
Ray Davies
Recorded 03/29/11 at Auditorium Parco della Musica, Sala Sinopoli, Rome, Italy
2. Intermezzo in E minor, Op. 119: No. 2 (5:06)
Johannes Brahms
Recorded 3/25/11 at Sociedad Filarmónica de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain

Side 15

1. Interstate Love Song (17:58)
Eric Kretz/Robert DeLeo/Scott Weiland/Dean DeLeo
Recorded 3/10/14 at Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Side 16

1. God Only Knows (16:44)
Brian Wilson/Tony Asher
Recorded 6/09/11 at Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozartsaal, Vienna, Austria

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