Largo
by Brad Mehldau
- Type: Album
- Released: 13 August 2002
- Label: Warner Bros.
- Country: United States
- Length: 1:05:29
- Community rating: 3.59/5 from 2 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Teaming with eclectic pop producer Jon Brion, the acclaimed jazz pianist boldly stepped away from his traditional trio format. The innovative album brilliantly incorporates subtle electronic textures, unusual woodwind arrangements, and pop-oriented covers, bridging contemporary jazz with modern alternative sensibilities.
Genres
Descriptors: instrumental, rhythmic
Tracklist
- When It Rains (6:36)
- You're Vibing Me (3:28)
- Dusty McNugget (5:43)
- Dropjes (3:58)
- Paranoid Android (9:05)
- Franklin Avenue (3:42)
- Sabbath (4:42)
- Dear Prudence (5:22)
- Free Willy (5:05)
- Alvarado (4:00)
- Wave / Mother Nature's Son (6:28)
- I Do (7:17)
Credits
- Brad Mehldau - primary artist, written-by, arranged by [woodwind and brass arrangements], piano, piano, vibraphone, piano [with putty treatment in lower two octaves], piano [distorto piano through leslie with whammy pedal]
- Lawrence Azerrad - artwork
- Larry Grenadier - acoustic bass, acoustic bass [right], bass [treated]
- Peter Mandell - bassoon
- Rose Corrigan - bassoon
- Emily Bernstein - clarinet
- Gary Gray - clarinet
- Matt Chamberlain - drums, shaker, drums, percussion, shaker, percussion, tabla