BRAD MEHLDAU – Live in Tokyo (2004) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Moving ever closer to becoming his generation's Keith Jarrett, Live in Tokyo finds pianist Brad Mehldau delving into a solo piano performance in February of 2003 with a quiet intensity, mixing a kind of studied jazz formalism with a lyrical "train-of-thought" avant-gardism. Ever the iconoclast, Mehldau tackles such varied compositions as Nick Drake's "Things Behind the Sun," Thelonious Monk's "Monk's Dream," a couple Gershwin standards, and Radiohead's "Paranoid Android." Clocking in at almost 20 minutes, "Android" stands as the epic and expansive centerpiece of this intense, cerebral, and beautiful album. Matt Collar

Tracklist:

1 Things Behind the Sun 4:37

Nick Drake

2 Intro 2:42

Brad Mehldau

3 Someone to Watch Over Me 9:55

George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin

4 From This Moment On 7:55

Cole Porter

5 Monk's Dream 7:59

Thelonious Monk

6 Paranoid Android 19:29

Colin Greenwood / Phil Selway / Thom Yorke

7 How Long Has This Been Going On? 9:00

George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin

8 River Man 8:59

Nick Drake

Credits:

Piano – Brad Mehldau