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Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau

Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau album review: A meeting of masterly minds

Cormac Larkin
Thu, Jan 26, 2017, 11:00

Mandolin and piano is as unlikely an instrumental pairing as you’ll find. Putting them together in a duo really shouldn’t work, but Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau clearly didn’t get the memo. This meeting of two masters of their respective realms is a spine-tingling triumph – a honky, gutsy, jaunty, darkly witty new musical alloy that is suitably strange yet strangely familiar.

Thile has spent the past 20 years rewriting the bluegrass rule book with his groups Nickel Creek and Punch Brothers, along the way acquiring an unprecedented virtuosity on his instrument and branching out into solo performances of Bach partitas and collaborations with everyone from YoYo Ma to Edgar Meyer.


Mehldau, too, aside from being the most copied jazz pianist of his generation, has shown an admirable tendency to mix outside his comfort zone, notably with producer Jon Brion on the rock-influenced Largo (2002) and with drummer Mark Guiliana on the superb Taming the Dragon (2014).

read more: http://news360.com/digestarticle/rQBBvTvnwUe6_NRiJ9w9bA

Brad Mehldau and Chris Thile team up for elegant, beautiful music

By Michael J. West, Published: April 13
Brad Mehldau and Chris Thile both play music in which technical virtuosity is front and center. The former is a jazz pianist, easily the most influential of his generation; the latter, an innovator of the bluegrass mandolin who won a MacArthur “genius” award last year. So their duo performance Friday night at the University of Maryland’s Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center was an achievement in itself. Their complex work translated to plain-faced beauty: simple, direct and exquisite.

(Michael Wilson) - Brad Mehldau

That’s not to diminish either man’s abilities or expression thereof. Nothing could diminish the delicate grace of Thile’s mandolin solo on Joni Mitchell’s “Marcie” or the two-handed classically steeped chords with which Mehldau followed it. And what’s to undercut the glory of a bebop duet? Specifically, a duet on Charlie Parker’s “Dexterity,” whose name says it all; Mehldau gave it one of the most soulful readings he’s ever been known to play — everyone who’s accused him of lacking soul should hear this — and Thile threw every trick he had into his improvisation. And that’s without getting into the intricacies of the Celtic and Appalachian pastiches they worked through.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/brad-mehldau-and-chris-thile-team-up-for-elegant-beautiful-music/2013/04/13/4f2a5e76-a3e8-11e2-bd52-614156372695_story.html?wprss=rss_music