ALBUMMehldau: The Folly of DesireIan Bostridge & Brad Mehldau
ALBUMYour Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The BeatlesBrad Mehldau
ALBUMLongGoneChristian McBride, Joshua Redman, Brian Blade & Brad Mehldau
ALBUMJacob's LadderBrad Mehldau
ALBUMVariations on a Melancholy ThemeBrad Mehldau & Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
ALBUMRoundAgainJoshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride & Brian Blade
ALBUMSuite: April 2020Brad Mehldau
ALBUMMon chien Stupide (Bande originale du film)Brad Mehldau
Brad Mehldau's Popular Music Videos
My Favorite Things (Live)
Brad Mehldau
Father (Live at the Falcon in Marlboro, NY, September 7, 2019)
Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride & Brian Blade
Tom Sawyer (feat. Chris Thile)
Brad Mehldau
Disco Ears (Live at the Falcon)
Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride & Brian Blade
Right Back Round Again (Live at the Falcon in Marlboro, NY, September 7, 2019)
Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride & Brian Blade
Golden Slumbers (Live from Village Vanguard)
Brad Mehldau
I Am The Walrus (Live from Village Vanguard)
Brad Mehldau
Your Mother Should Know (Live from Village Vanguard)
Brad Mehldau
Goodbye Storyteller (for Fred Myrow) [Live In Marciac]
Brad Mehldau
Lilac Wine (Live)
Brad Mehldau
Artist Playlists
Brad Mehldau Essentials
Jazz meets romanticism and Radiohead in this masterful musician.
Brad Mehldau: The Session Musicians
Jazz cats, honky-tonkers, and alt-rockers all love the pianist.
Brad Mehldau: Chill
Lean back and relax with some of their mellowest cuts.
Artist Biography
Primarily known as a lyrically inclined trio leader and solo pianist, Brad Mehldau is one of jazz's more consistently innovative and influential presences. Born in Jacksonville, Florida in 1970, the teenaged Mehldau had his come-to-jazz moment upon hearing Keith Jarrett’s Bremen/Lausanne solo concert. He joined saxophonist Joshua Redman's quartet in the early '90s, formed his first long-term trio (with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy) in 1994, and released Introducing Brad Mehldau the following year. Although he'd covered Radiohead and singer/songwriter Nick Drake as early as 1998, it was 2002's Largo, with its elegantly arranged excursions into the music of Black Sabbath and The Beatles, that expanded the jazz-piano palette forever. Jeff Ballard replaced Rossy in 2005, giving the threesome a harder edge, while Mehldau punctuated his stellar trio work with increasingly diverse side projects. These included a collaboration with guitarist Pat Metheny, song cycles composed for and performed with Renée Fleming and Anne Sofie von Otter, electronic-keyboard confabs with drummer Mark Guiliana, Americana-tinged duets with bluegrass mandolinist Chris Thile, and an album of solo Bach interpretations—not to mention numerous sideman gigs with the likes of Lee Konitz, Charles Lloyd, and Vinicius Cantuária. With its focus on vocals and electronics, 2019's biblically inspired Finding Gabriel teed up 2022's Jacob's Ladder, a unique throwback to Mehldau's adolescent passion for prog rockers Rush, Gentle Giant, and Yes, as interpreted through an Old Testament lens.