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Brad Mehldau – It Might As Well Be Spring

One of my favourite Brad Mehldau albums is still his first Warner album ‘Introducing Brad Mehldau’. He was only 25 when he recorded it  and it has a lovely fresh feel without the sometimes overly-cerebral tone of his later albums (brilliant though they are).

This is a transcription of his solo on the opening track and demonstrates the brilliant quick-silver imagination and rhythmic devices that he’d explore further down the line in his career. Enjoy!

2 Comments

  • Dan Latapy commented on April 14, 2011 Reply

    Thanks for putting this up – fascinating and well worth a detailed study.

    I’m more familiar with his later stuff but nice to see that a possible trend towards self-indulgence manifested itself in his first album too. Why play a standard in 4/4 when you can play it in 7/8?

  • admin commented on April 15, 2011 Reply

    Interesting point Dan – I guess jazz musicians always have a slight tendancy towards that I guess. That was always one of the reasons why I was never a massive fan of Dave Brubeck (as fine a musician as he is)
    Dan

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