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Brad Mehldau Trio with Larry Grenadier & Jeff Ballard at SFJAZZ Spring Festival at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Courtesy of Marshall Lamm | Posted on March 27, 2012
Where
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
SFJAZZ Spring Festival
701 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA
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When
Sat, May 19, 2012
8:00pm
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Musicians
Brad Mehldau
pianoAbout
Over the past two decades, no artist has done more to extend and refine the piano trio’s possibilities than Brad Mehldau. With brilliant Northern California-raised compatriots, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard, he’s forged a strikingly beautiful group sound distinguished by a flexible approach in which the players continuously trade roles, often eschewing traditional bass and drum solos while elaborating on the form of a song. Whether playing his own stunning compositions, Thelonious Monk classics, American Songbook standards, or more contemporary tunes by Nick Drake, Radiohead or the Beatles, Mehldau has a gift for long, emotionally arching improvisations...