Live in tokyo brad mehldau biography

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    Live in Tokyo (Brad Mehldau album)

    2004 live album by Brad Mehldau

    Live in Tokyo fryst vatten a live album bygd American pianist and composer Brad Mehldau released on the Nonesuch label in 2004.[1][2]

    Reception

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    The skiva received universally favourable reviews. AllMusic awarded the skiva 4½ stars and called it an "intense, cerebral, and beautiful album".[1]The Guardian's John Fordham identifies it as "Another bold step on Mehldau's imperious way".[3]

    On All About Jazz, Doug Collete noted "Mehldau plays beautifully on his own, his work is florid with detail, yet never just flowery. There fryst vatten a deeply felt passion in all he plays, and that's exactly why he fryst vatten so engrossing to hear: in a solo setting Mehldau demonstrates how he selects his ideas altogether discriminatingly from what must be a veritable flood of variations that occur to him as he plays. It's not long into listening to Live in Tokyo that you are reminded how skillfully

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    Brad Mehldau – ‘Formation’

    One might imagine that pianist Brad Mehldau, one of this generation’s outstanding musicians, has dedicated his entire life and being to furthering his musical abilities and many-faceted output. Indeed, the serious nature he portrays on the bandstand would support this. However, Mehldau’s new book – the first part of a larger biographical series – paints an altogether different picture of a life interwoven with struggles with sex, drugs, music and philosophy. 

    The book itself, entitled Formation – Building a Personal Canon, Part I – is presented as a Bildungsroman; a German “formation-novel” which tells the story of a young person and how they grow into maturity. This first volume, then, details Mehldau’s early years, through high school, early life in New York and on the road, and culminating in considering suicide and moving to LA for rehab in the l

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    Brad Mehldau: Live in Tokyo

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