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Songs: The Art of the Trio Volume Three

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Songs: The Art of the Trio Volume Three
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 15, 1998
RecordedMay 27 & 28, 1998
StudioRight Track (New York City)
GenreJazz
Length59:15
LabelWarner Bros.
9362-47051-2
ProducerMatt Pierson
Brad Mehldau chronology
Live at the Village Vanguard: The Art of the Trio Volume Two
(1997)
Songs: The Art of the Trio Volume Three
(1998)
Elegiac Cycle
(1999)

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

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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

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All compositions by Brad Mehldau except as indicated

  1. "Song-Song" - 6:29
  2. "Unrequited" - 6:07
  3. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 5:57
  4. "Exit Music (For a Film)" (Radiohead) - 4:23
  5. "At a Loss" - 6:19
  6. "Convalescent" - 5:58
  7. "For All We Know" (J. Fred Coots, Sam M. Lewis) - 7:59
  8. "River Man" (Nick Drake) - 4:47
  9. "Young at Heart" (Carolyn Leigh, Johnny Richards) - 6:20
  10. "Sehnsucht" - 4:56

Personnel

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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

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  1. ^ a b c Huey, Steve. "Brad Mehldau The Art of the Trio, Vol. 3: Songs - Review". Allmusic. Retrieved 2014-01-24.
  2. ^ "Discography of Brad Mehldau". Retrieved 2014-01-24.
  3. ^ a b Cook, Richard (November 6, 1998). "Keyed Up". New Statesman. pp. 40–41.
  4. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 989. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ^ Swenson, John (1999). The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide. Random House. Retrieved 23 September 2019. Brad Mehldau