It's not easy to be a musician these days. There may well be more critics than musicians, but looking at any genre's past there's an enormous amount of music created by thousands of musicians. Still, very few of them can be considered groundbreaking artists who have expanded, informed and enlivened the genre they work in. Ironically, some of the things that have made pianist Brad Mehldau popular inside and outside the jazz tradition are his non-jazz instincts and musical tastes.
AAJ's Nenad Georgievski caught up with Mehldau recently, and spoke with him about his collaboration with guitarist Pat Metheny, as well as his 2006 releases House on Hill and Love Sublime, a collaboration with singer Renee Fleming.
Check out Brad Mehldau: Excitement and Energy at AAJ today!
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