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  • Artist(s): Brad Mehldau
  • Summary: As the title states, the latest release for the trio features ballads and blues songs.
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  1. Jun 29, 2016
    80
    While Blues and Ballads is by no means Mehldau's most ambitious album, it's nonetheless a work of expansive emotionality and deeply hued beauty.
  2. Jun 29, 2016
    80
    A 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.
  3. Q Magazine
    Jun 29, 2016
    80
    Studio-recorded, the all-covers Blues And Ballads reels in his wilder live flights to pensive effect. [Aug 2016, p.114]
  4. Mojo
    Jun 29, 2016
    80
    Sublime stuff. [Jul 2016, p.92]
  5. Jul 13, 2016
    80
    With 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.
  6. Jul 21, 2016
    80
    These are old songs subjected to an old jazz method, but brought scintillatingly into the here and now.
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