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Jul 21, 2016These are old songs subjected to an old jazz method, but brought scintillatingly into the here and now.
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Jul 13, 2016With few pyrotechnic moments and only bit of reshuffling of the forms of these excellent songs, the Brad Mehldau Trio reminds us of how jazz continues to address serious emotions and great pop tunes at the same time.
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MojoJun 29, 2016Sublime stuff. [Jul 2016, p.92]
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Q MagazineJun 29, 2016Studio-recorded, the all-covers Blues And Ballads reels in his wilder live flights to pensive effect. [Aug 2016, p.114]
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Jun 29, 2016While Blues and Ballads is by no means Mehldau's most ambitious album, it's nonetheless a work of expansive emotionality and deeply hued beauty.
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Jun 29, 2016A deceptively sweet-sounding set which, once you cotton on to the pianist’s way of treating a few mainly well-known tunes, is absolutely absorbing.