life ends at 27
Brad Mehldau is somebody I found out about back in 2006 due to his collaboration with Pat Metheny, Metheny/Mehldau.
For his new album, he combines two of my favourite musical things, virtuoso jazz piano and the Beatles. Great, great performance.
Ryo Fukui was a Japanese pianist based in Sapporo. He was born in 1948 in Biratori, Hokkaido. He played regularly at the Slowboat jazz club. The genre of Fukui’s music is considered Nu-Jazz.
A legend died today.
David Warren “Dave” Brubeck (December 6, 1920 — December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist. He wrote a number of jazz standards, including “In Your Own Sweet Way” and “The Duke”. Brubeck’s style ranged from refined to bombastic, reflecting his mother’s attempts at classical training and his improvisational skills. His music was known for employing unusual time signatures, and superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters, and tonalities.
Featuring Pat and his 42 string Pikasso again, The Sound of Water was maybe one of the highlights off the “Metheny Mehldau Quartet†album.
An even more unusual intrument than Charlie Hunter’s 8-string is Pat Metheny’s Pikasso guitar. Here he is doing his live impression of an orchestra playing a solo piece titled Into The Dream before breaking out the band for Have You Heard, equally stunning.
