

Mark now holds an MMus in jazz performance (1st Class Honours) and is currently studying towards his DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) in jazz performance.ĭo you have plans to write an biography on Mr. In 2008 Mark was awarded the Ariadne Danilow Music prize (Victoria University of Wellington) and the Sir Alan Stewart Postgraduate Scholarship (Massey University) enabling him to pursue further study. Mark is a university tutor lecturer at Auckland University and Massey University (New Zealand School of Music). He has been broadcast on Christmas in the Park TV3, Homegrown on C4, Juice and Alt TV. He has over 15 years as an international artist playing for clients such as the All Blacks, Glastonbury Festival, Hayley Westrena, Rt Hon John Key, Hilton Hotel, Seabourn Luxury Yachts, and the BBC. Please subscribe to my site, then email me for the password, I am happy for you to print these, if you ask nicely.

Nobody Else But Me Purchase: iTunes Listen on Spotify: Credits: Musicians: Brad Mehldau (piano) Larry Grenadier (bass) Jorge Rossy (drums) Producer: Matt Pierson.īelow is a collection of 20 files, containing leadsheets and transcriptions of seminal Mehldau performances.Īll pieces have been composed by Brad, some are very recent such as Dreamsketch, Ode and Kurt Vibe. Mehldau’s composistional voice continues to develop and is represented here as well, like on ‘Ron’s Place’, the moody waltz recently recorded by bassist Charlie Haden.Mignons Song 07.

The arrangement here of ‘I Didn’t Know What Time it Was’ is still a favorite encore piece in performances. “He had the foresight that we were a band that would stay together – maybe more than I did at that time in fact.” The opening track, ‘Blame it on My Youth,’ marks the beginning of an approach to ballad playing unique to this the trio, characterized by a deeply felt empathy between the three players, a loose freedom in their collective rhythmic phrasing, and a certain rhapsodic quality in Mehldau’s melodic statements. “Matt had the idea of documenting the development of the trio with Larry and Jorge in a series of recordings,” says Mehldau.

Matt Pierson brought Mehldau onto the Warner Brothers label, and produced this date from 1996 and several subsequent trio recordings. The Art of the Trio (Volume 1) Brad Mehldau Trio
