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Type
Cd (musik)
Format
1 cd, 1 kommentarbilag
Genre
jazz
Emneord
Emnetal
78.793:5
Bidragsydere
Indhold
I Am The WalrusYour Mother Should KnowI Saw Her Standing ThereFor No OneBaby's In BlackShe Said, She SaidHere, There And EverywhereIf I Needed SomeoneMaxwell's Silver HammerGolden SlumbersLife On Mars?
Beskrivelse
Live-optagelse, Philharmonie de Paris september 2020
Forlag
Nonesuch Records
Målgruppe
voksenmaterialer
Anmeldelser
AllMusic, 2023
"Mehldau treats each Beatles tune as he might a jazz standard, reconsidering the harmony of the song and using the melody as jumping-off point for his own bold, endlessly lyrical improvisations. What's particularly enjoyable about Mehldau's approach is how he keeps each song recognizable while making it his own, as on "I Am the Walrus," where he implies John Lennon's throaty psychedelia with tiny moments of dissonance. Similarly, the already lullaby-like "For No One" is given a delicate, dancerly quality in the swinging Paul McCartney style. Perhaps most compelling is his bittersweet reading of "Here, There and Everywhere," transforming the song into a softly moving ballad that evokes the classic '60s style of Bill Evans"
AllMusic, 2023
The guardian, 2023-02-24
"Jazz album of the month" - "A classical piano student with prog-rock leanings in his teens and an enthusiasm for the Beach Boys, the Zombies and Bowie, Mehldau discovered the Beatles relatively late. He has periodically played their songs since the 1990s, but this 2020 Paris concert is an all-Beatles set, save for the Lennon-influenced David Bowie track Life on Mars?. After opening with I Am the Walrus, taking a hypnotic hook through to a rousing finale, Mehldau plays the title track as an early-jazz stride-piano piece (a nod to McCartney's vaudeville leanings), I Saw Her Standing There as a driving boogie, and the original slow-rocking lament of Baby's in Black as something hauntingly close to a gospel hymn ... Life on Mars? is a whirling contrapuntal improvisation that brings the Philharmonie de Paris crowd to roars. This will be too much of a standards-like set for some, maybe - but even if Mehldau the solo pianist has had to trade rock's muscularity for a chamber-musical delicacy, his power isn't far beneath the surface"
The guardian, 2023-02-24
Popmatters, 2023-03-01
"Pianist Brad Mehldau is the ultimate jazz chameleon, at home covering songs by composers as diverse as Cole Porter, Thelonious Monk, Radiohead, Stone Temple Pilots, Nick Drake, George Gershwin, and Massive Attack. His approach to these compositions never feels like a pop culture goof or a winking, "hey, how weird would it be for me to play 'Interstate Love Song' on the piano?" kind of parlor trick. He respects the sophistication that can be derived from these compositions and treats them all with equal reverence. While he's no stranger to the Beatles' oeuvre (...), Your Mother Should Know is his first attempt to make a complete Beatles covers album (except for one song...). By any measure, it's a spectacular success"
Popmatters, 2023-03-01
All about jazz, 2023-01-27
"Recorded live and as humanly aware and intimate as is possible, 'Your Mother Should Know' convincingly posits the pianist presenting both the Beatles and himself as modern-day classicists ... Mehldau (...) is in full command of his mission. Highlighting all the romanticism ("Baby's In Black"), the Bach-ian, oddly tempered mergers of dark and light ("She Said, She Said") and triumphant balladry ("Golden Slumbers") in one infinitely pleasing performance"
All about jazz, 2023-01-27