JazzMatters: The Best New Jazz of Winter 2024
PopMatters presents the best new jazz recordings from the winter of 2024 and reflects on the relationship of the Grammys to jazz.
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15 Jazz Albums for People Not Sure They Like Jazz
These 15 jazz albums for people not sure they like jazz provide a gateway to a style or artist – an invitation to enter and hopefully emerge wanting more.
JazzMatters: The Best New Jazz of February and March 2023
Our jazz columnist chooses the best new jazz albums of the past two months while reflecting on the passing of Wayne Shorter and the Grammy Awards.
Brad Mehldau Draws Inspiration from the Beatles
Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau is at the peak of his powers, paying tribute to the music of the Beatles on Your Mother Should Know.
Brad Mehldau Melds Jazz and Prog Rock on ‘Jacob’s Ladder’
If you ask jazz’s Brad Mehldau, the path to God rides through the music of Rush, Yes, Gentle Giant, and Periphery as on his new album Jacob’s Ladder.
The 50 Best Albums of 2021 So Far
The year has offered a mountainous feast of sublime music. The 50 best albums of 2021 so far are an eclectic, forward-looking, and increasingly “woke” bunch.
Brad Mehldau Pushes Forward on ‘Variations on a Melancholy Theme’
The truly great thing about Brad Mehldau’s Variations on a Melancholy Theme is that it rewards casual as well as careful listening.
Joshua Redman, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride, and Brian Blade Come ‘RoundAgain’
Joshua Redman's 1994 quartet of young jazz lions reunites as contemporary masters on RoundAgain.
Brad Mehldau Spans Many Musical Forms on ‘Finding Gabriel’
Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau creates another hybrid project built on a layering of keyboards, drums, woodwinds, voices, and strings—with a gloss of politics and religion along the edges. Occasionally brilliant.
‘Seymour Reads the Constitution!’ is Brad Mehldau’s 2018 Victory Lap
Reunited with drummer Jeff Ballard and bassist Larry Grenadier, Brad Mehldau dives back into the trio format with gusto.
A Mere Listen to Brad Mehldau’s ‘After Bach’ Can Stave Off Life’s Stresses
Legendary pianist Brad Mehldau continues his tradition of unique musical interpretation by offering a dazzling twist on the works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau: Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau
Thile and Mehldau make a pretty great duo, but it’s also an idiosyncratic one. For the most part this album feels like Thile is playing around in Mehldau’s jazz-oriented world.