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  • Artist(s): Brad Mehldau
  • Summary: The album features nine tracks recorded from Joshua Redman & Brad Mehldau's 2011 concerts in Europe.
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  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
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  1. Sep 13, 2016
    80
    Always lyrical, the music nonetheless sometimes sounds at the edge of a precipice--it’s improv in the most exposed of situations.
  2. Mojo
    Sep 13, 2016
    80
    This new nine-track album catches the duo performing together in Europe during 2011 and clearly shows that despite their infrequent collaborations, they create a special telepathic musical synergy in each other's company. [Oct 2016, p.97]
  3. Q Magazine
    Sep 13, 2016
    80
    The alchemy lies not only in the sonic contrast of the horn and keys but also the creative tension between Redman's roots in bebop's askew interrogations of melody and Mehldau's stream of notes rippling from the wellspring of European classical romanticism. [Oct 2016, p.110]
  4. Jan 13, 2017
    80
    Every once in a while, it’s nice to be reminded that jazz can also celebrate telepathic friendships and the healing of the listener.
  5. Sep 19, 2016
    80
    These are dazzlingly collaborative performances that reveal Redman and Mehldau to be a highly intuitive and harmonically adroit team.
  6. Sep 13, 2016
    60
    It contains some stupendous playing from both men, whose repertoire covers old bop numbers and several original tunes.
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