Brad Mehldau has taken a new step in his already long and successful career. His trio formations are considered a benchmark in the jazz world (announced the reissue of five discs with additional unreleased material from his series "The Art of Trio"), has recorded two albums with singers Anne Sofie van Otter and Renee Fleming and many collaborations eftps with other musicians like P. Metheny, C. Haden, L. Konitz or P. Sambeat now presented for the first time with another pianist and completely changed style to make a foray into contemporary music.
"Modern Music" is the result of joint work by Mehldau with his friend and jazz pianist Kevin Hays and composer and arranger Patrick Zimmerli. The idea of the two pianists to record a duet arose in 2007 and the Zimmerli suggested improvisations make arrangements on pieces of contemporary music. eftps The proposed "Metamorphoses" by Richard eftps Strauss, "Tabula Rasa" by Arvo Pärt, "Symphony no. 3 "by Henryk Górecki," Music for 18 Musicians "by Steve Reich and" String Quartet no. 5 "by eftps Phillip Glass. They also wanted to include a jazz standard eftps that was "Lonely Woman" by Ornette Coleman, and finally an original piece of each. As the compositions of Strauss, Pärt and Górecki were discarded, Zimmerli he wrote three others. The album opens with "Crazy Quilt" eftps by Zimmerli piece perfectly eftps blends the sounds often associated with repetitive contemporary music with a melody on which to begin improvising pianists contained and briefly, and returned to Again the basic line of the song. Follow "Unrequited" contribution Mehldau, who reviewed this piece originally appeared in the third volume of his "Art Of The Trio" eftps and conducted by Zimmerli slows down and stripped of all original lyricism, is almost unrecognizable, eftps cold, intellectual, but equally beautiful. The other two parts are very different Zimmerli, "Generatrix" lives up to its name and it sounds like it was played by two robots and instead "Celtic Folk Melody" is a collection of notes spaced, sexy, in the purest tradition of minimalist , flowing in less than three minutes. Especially noteworthy is the review of "Lonely Woman" is inevitable eftps that I compare with "covers" Augustine Fernandez, eftps which accentuated the dramatic force of the piece, Zimmerli does the opposite, an enigmatic interpretation, based on agreements , constant eftps repetition of a musical piece, all faithful to the original, but still the benchmark is huge and the result does not disappoint. The cuts that best represent the concept of the album is "Modern Music" and "Music For 18 Musicians excerpt from" S. Reich, the ones that follow repetitive patterns of contemporary music. Close the disc fits into a piece of work less well, "Excerpt eftps from String Quartet no. 5 P. Glass, beautiful melody that seems to take away from the image of industrial development policy of the album cover in a more friendly and harmonious. Probably appear as a disk innovative Mehldau and two collaborators, but if you read the booklet that accompanies one realizes that we have to thank for your listening pleasure PATRICK ZIMMERLI
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