I’ve just recently purchased my ticket for the latest concert given by Brad Mehldau in the UK. The concert on September 16th is the first of two concerts Brad is performing in London in the final year of his curatorship at Wigmore Hall. The first part of the season was very successful featuring Brad with Joshua Redman, Anne Sofie von Otter and also his excellent solo piano concert last June. Brad’s only other visit to the UK last year was the European premiere of his impressive concert work for chamber orchestra and jazz group ‘Highway Rider‘ which was performed as part of the London Jazz Festival 2010 at the Barbican. The partnership with virtuoso Mandolinist Chris Thile has already been impressing audiences this year in New York. From the programme there it looks as if audiences may be treated to some solo performances as well as duets from the pair, including original compositions from both performers as well as music from ‘Radiohead’. Chris Thile on his recent twitter feed, when asked about Brad Mehldau, tweeted the following:
“I’m quite fond of Art of the Trio 4, but there’s no substitute for putting your ears in the same room as the man.”
and
“Brad Mehldau is almost certainly our greatest living improviser.”
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Finally, some video footage taken earlier this month of Brad Mehldau and Chris Thile performing Radiohead’s ‘Knives out’ at Le Poisson Rouge, New York:
and this version of ‘Bottle up and explode’ by Elliot Smith
