Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This combination of images shows cover art for Brad Mehldau's “Après Fauré," left, and “After Bach II." (Nonesuch Records via AP) ...

"Summer" is a frequent shorthand for “loud and bright," but the span of the day can include a whole lot of tones more subtle and colorful. This is the scene Pat Metheny and Brad Mehldau paint on this ...

Brad Mehldau Stuns With Emotional Elliott Smith Tribute on Jimmy Kimmel Live originally appeared on Parade. The greatest way to keep a musician alive long after their death is to continue to perform ...

Pianist Brad Mehldau has recorded and performed extensively since the early 1990s. Mehldau’s most consistent output over the years has taken place in the trio format. Starting in 1996, his group ...

Maybe there are pockets of resistance to the appeal of Brad Mehldau here and there - straightahead jazz listeners for whom his harmonic distortions of much-loved songs occasion a twinge in the teeth, ...

The Brad Mehldau Trio has an excellent new album, “Blues and Ballads,” coming out June 3, but only played one song from it Friday. Instead, its show at Berklee Performance Center demonstrated the ...

The recording opens metronomically, with eight repeated notes on a string bass, each pulling you in closer. The piano enters, then the drums. After playing the melody, a familiar and endearing Beatles ...

Grammy-award winning jazz pianist Brad Mehldau connects the dots as though they were so many 16th notes. His two new albums, “After Bach II” and “Après Fauré,” use classical music as a foundation for ...

Brad Mehldau is the American jazz pianist who is frequently embraced as the new Keith Jarrett, but his conceptions are as likely to be shaped by Beethoven as by Ornette Coleman. He released the fifth ...