11. My Favorite Things
2 cds + 1 DVD set - in stock NOW. 'Live In Marciac,' a two CD/one DVD set, is pianist and composer Brad
Mehldau's second collection of live solo recordings, joining 'Live In
Toyko'. This engrossing set, from a summer
festival in Marciac, France, features both Mehldau originals and his
ruminative explorations of material from such artists and writers as
Nick Drake, Radiohead, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and Kurt Cobain,
along with American Songbook classics from Cole Porter ('It's All Right
With Me') and Rogers and Hammerstein ('My Favorite Things').
The
accompanying film offers a beautifully rendered, piano's-eye view of
Mehldau from this French performance, an extraordinarily up-close
opportunity to observes his hands-and mind-at work. As London's
Telegraph has noted, 'He's a pianist who has it all, technically
speaking, and he also has a fabulously well-stocked brain that can
mingle different musical traditions. He can turn a standard with
consummate musicianship and real swing, he can mine the depths of a
blues chord sequence, he can summon a rock-anthem ecstasy. And lurking
in the background is a fascination with classical music, revealed in the
way inner parts surge and pluck at the main melody.'
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