Songs: The Art of the Trio Volume Three
| Songs: The Art of the Trio Volume Three | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | September 15, 1998 | |||
| Recorded | May 27 & 28, 1998 | |||
| Studio | Right Track, New York City | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 59:15 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. 9362-47051-2 | |||
| Producer | Matt Pierson | |||
| Brad Mehldau chronology | ||||
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Songs: The Art of the Trio Volume Three is an album by American pianist and composer Brad Mehldau released on the Warner Bros. label in 1998.[1][2] It was produced by Matt Pierson.[3]
Reception[edit]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| The Penguin Guide to Jazz | [4] |
| The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide |  [5] |
AllMusic awarded the album 4½ stars and in its review by Steve Huey, stated "this is a fine program easily recommended to straight-ahead collectors".[1] For the New Statesman, Richard Cook wrote that "Songs enters the piano tradition without a murmur of protest while still offering music that is bursting loose of the accepted trinity of piano, bass and drums."[3]
Track listing[edit]
All compositions by Brad Mehldau except as indicated
- "Song-Song" - 6:29
- "Unrequited" - 6:07
- "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 5:57
- "Exit Music (For a Film)" (Radiohead) - 4:23
- "At a Loss" - 6:19
- "Convalescent" - 5:58
- "For All We Know" (J. Fred Coots, Sam M. Lewis) - 7:59
- "River Man" (Nick Drake) - 4:47
- "Young at Heart" (Carolyn Leigh, Johnny Richards) - 6:20
- "Sehnsucht" - 4:56
Personnel[edit]
- Brad Mehldau – piano
- Larry Grenadier – double bass
- Jorge Rossy – drums
- Production
- Matt Pierson – producer
- James Farber – engineering
- Greg Calbi – mastering
- Dana Watson – production coordination
- Tom Tavee – photography
- Art Direction and Design by Rey International
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Huey, Steve. "Brad Mehldau The Art of the Trio, Vol. 3: Songs - Review". Allmusic. Retrieved 2014-01-24.
- ^ "Discography of Brad Mehldau". Retrieved 2014-01-24.
- ^ a b Cook, Richard (November 6, 1998). "Keyed Up". New Statesman. pp. 40–41.
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 989. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Swenson, John (1999). The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide. Random House. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
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