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Props for Brad Mehldau’s Esplanade show

by boonkiat on Mar.23, 2009, under Concert review

American genre-breaking jazz pianist Brad Mehldau, here in Singapore two weeks ago to perform in the Mosaic Music Festival with his eponymous jazz trio group, is an oddity in today’s jazz scene: someone who innovates not by changing jazz into a different form, but by steadfastly sticking to traditional jazz sensibilities.

He is like bass clarinet and sax maestro Eric Dolphy in that way. The latter – perhaps Mingus’ most talented sideman ever, and who was struck down cruelly at the prime of his life by undiagnosed diabetes in 1964 – was a free-spirited soul who slashed at jazz boundaries with his fearless invention of jazz choruses that shout advantgarde and free jazz but are really deeply grounded in the best of jazz traditions.

Mehldau, in the same way, uses hallowed jazz spirit to redraw jazz boundaries with classical, pop and rock music as his fodder.

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