Brad Mehldau documentary

This is part I of a German documentary on pianist Brad Mehldau filmed while he was on tour in Germany and New York. The bassist is Larry Grenadier and the drummer is Jorge Rossy. The clip above is a club performance of Radiohead's Exit Music (for a film). Much of the trio music in these clips ended up as part of Mehldau's multi-CD Art of the Trio sessions.

The documentary continues in the links below:

Part II (solo piano Nick Drake's River Man and short interview in restaurant)

Part III (interview continued and Mehldau's The Bard, discussion of John Coltrane)

Part IV (Elegies) "you're playing it [music] in time through time that's why there is nothing like seeing a live performance")

Part V (another elegy, then All the Things You Are in New York with trio during the Art of the Trio sessions)

Part VI (more from The Village Vanguard and interview with Mehldau and the other trio members)

Part VII (more from The Village Vanguard and end credits)

Brad Mehldau makes his Celebrity Series debut on February 13 in a concert at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge with mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter and pianist Bengt Forsberg (3 people but not a trio). Follow the link or call 617-482-6661 Monday through Friday from 10am to 4pm.