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Brad Mehldau Trio with Larry Grenadier & Jeff Ballard at SFJAZZ Spring Festival at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

Courtesy of Marshall Lamm | Posted on March 27, 2012

Where

When

Fri, May 18, 2012
8:00pm

Musicians

About

Over the past two decades, no artist has done more to extend and refine the piano trio’s possibilities than Brad Mehldau. With brilliant Northern California-raised compatriots, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard, he’s forged a strikingly beautiful group sound distinguished by a flexible approach in which the players continuously trade roles, often eschewing traditional bass and drum solos while elaborating on the form of a song. Whether playing his own stunning compositions, Thelonious Monk classics, American Songbook standards, or more contemporary tunes by Nick Drake, Radiohead or the Beatles, Mehldau has a gift for long, emotionally arching improvisations...

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