The Art of the Trio, Volume Two: Live at The Village Vanguard

by Brad Mehldau

Type: Album
Released: 10 March 1998
Label: Warner Bros.
Country: United States
Length: 1:12:59
Community rating: 4.01/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded during an acclaimed residency at New York's premier jazz club, this release solidified the pianist's trio as one of the most vital ensembles of their generation. The group reinvents standard bop structures with fluid, deeply intuitive interplay, highlighted by a staggering 14-minute deconstruction of 'Monk's Dream'. It effectively positioned Mehldau as a modern torchbearer of lyrical, sophisticated jazz piano.

Genres

Descriptors: piano, live, improvisation, melodic, complex

Tracklist

Credits

Brad Mehldau - primary artist, liner notes, piano
Rey International - art direction, design
Larry Grenadier - bass
Dana Watson - coordinator [production]
Jorge Rossy - drums
Greg Thompson - engineer [assitant]
James Farber - engineer [mixing], engineer [recording], mixed by
John Bates - engineer [recording]
Greg Calbi - mastered by
Larry Fink - photography by
Matt Pierson - producer
Cole Porter - written-by
Albert Hague - written-by
Arnold Horwitt - written-by
Thelonious Monk - written-by
Dorothy Fields - written-by
Jerome Kern - written-by
Henry Mancini - written-by
Johnny Mercer - written-by
John Coltrane - written-by