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Brad Mehldau: Album "Live In Marciac"

He is a phenomenon: When the pianist Brad Mehldau came in 1995 with support and as a solo artist in appearance, he caused a stir: The tattooed youngster fit visually so not in the upscale always claim throbbing jazz scene, but what MEHLDAU accomplished on his instrument, had surprised even the experts. The ability to merge

, his classical piano training with modern pop repertoire, opened the Jazz Piano whole new way.

MEHLDAU has already managed to earn a reputation in the jazz world as an exceptionally talented musician. Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny praised him in the highest Sounds, and jazz lovers enjoyed Mehldau meanders over between transformed Beatles and Radiohead's compositions, his love of Bach and Rainer Maria Rilke and the consciousness of responsibility to the Jazz.

The Doppel-CD/DVD Live In Marciac was under the Marciac Jazz Festival * http://www.jim.be/ in Gascony (France ) in Summer 2006 and recorded shows BRAD MEHLDAU as an outstanding solo pianist who succeeds with natural matter of course, to draw the great bow from jazz to pop and rock, without it it is a break.

& Video Listen to Samples:
Brad Mehldau solo - My favorite things
Brad Mehldau: "Goodbye Storyteller (for Fred Myrow)"

For find in addition to five original compositions in both It's All Right With Me by Cole Porter, Rodgers / Hammerstein composition My Favorite Things, James Alan Shelton's Lilac Wine in the repertoire, and epoch-forming pop songs of Nick Drake ("Things Behind The Sun"), Radiohead ("Exit Music (For A Film)"), Kurt Cobain / Nirvana ( "Lithium") and of course the always MEHLDAU favorite Beatles ("Martha My Dear").

Photo: Brad Mehldau
Credits: Augusta Quirk / Warner Music

It is always overwhelming Mehldau imagination of a beauty which, while quite a lot of calls from their listeners and audiences, but it also more than amply rewarded.

Once again BRAD MEHLDAU Live In Marciac on shows that are pure fiction genre boundaries, as soon as one touches the essence of a song and take the soul of a music piece. And this should Brad Mehldau's most exceptional merit one.



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CD1
first Storm (Mehldau)
second It's All Right With Me (Cole Porter)
third Secret Love (Fain/Webster)
4. Unrequited (Mehldau)
5. Resignation (Mehldau)
6. Trailer Park Ghost (Mehldau)
7. Goodbye Storyteller (for Fred Myrow) (Mehldau)
8. Exit Music (for a Film) (Radiohead)

CD2
9. Things Behind the Sun (Nick Drake)
10. Lithium (Kurt Cobain)
11. Lilac Wine (James Alan Shelton)
12. Martha My Dear (Lennon/McCartney)
13. My Favorite Things (Rodgers/Hammerstein)
14. Dat Dere (Bobby Timmons) (CD only)

Quelle: MPN / Warner Music

	Live In Marciac [+ Digital Booklet] Brad Mehldau

* The Jazz Festival in Marciac ("Jazz in Marciac, JIM), a small (1200 inhabitants) medieval village in Gascony in South West France (Gers) west of Toulouse, halfway between Auch and Tarbes place every year in mid-August (fifteen days to 15 August) and is international. It was created in 1978 to life of a jazz-loving English teacher and headmaster of the village (and later several mayors), Jean-Louis Guilhauman, Bill Coleman, who is near had retired, could move to Contribute.

It was initially restricted to the old time jazz and gospel music and there were musicians like Guy Lafitte and the Golden Gate Quartet on. Today it is a major international jazz festival with up to 180,000 visitors in the year. In addition to jazz and gospel music (in church from the 13th century) is also the Blues and Rhythm and Blues conceded a place. Source: Wikipedia