Three years passed between the release of the Brad Mehldau's Day Is Done and this live outing.

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2008 CD release of Live on Discogs. His first record for Nonesuch, Brad Mehldau Live in Tokyo, was released in September 2004. Brad Mehldau Trio Live Brad Mehldau Trio. The funniest moment in this exciting live recording comes during "Monk's Dream," when Mehldau abruptly quotes Vince Guaraldi's "Linus and Lucy" and begins playing around with that famous and delightful motif, eventually metamorphosing it back into Monk's classic tune.
Label: Nonesuch - 7559-79956-5 • Format: 2x, CD Album • Country: US • Genre: Jazz • Brad Mehldau Trio - Live (2008, CD) | Discogs What's so significant about this is simply that the former record marked the debut of drummer Jeff Ballard, who had replaced longtime kitman Jorge Rossy. the trio’s pivot point and foundation, The Brad Mehldau Trio Live showcase the trio’s first rate musicianship as they take yet another aesthetic drive that makes this masterpiece such an exceptional milestone in jazz.

Live is the second release from The Brad Mehldau Trio with Larry Grenadier on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums.The first album from this trio, Day is Done, was recorded in the studio and released in 2005.In the trio setting, Mehldau has habitually rotated between the studio setting and the live setting.

Brad Mehldau Trio Live is a live album by American pianist and composer Brad Mehldau's Trio released on the Nonesuch label in 2008. After ten rewarding years with Rossy playing in Mehldau’s regular trio, drummer Jeff Ballard joined the band in 2005. Refined with simplicity and cosmopolitan dynamics, this live … The label released its first album from the Brad Mehldau Trio—Day is …

Bradford Alexander Mehldau (/ ˈ m ɛ l ˌ d aʊ /; born August 23, 1970) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.. Mehldau studied music at The New School, and toured and recorded while still a student.He was a member of saxophonist Joshua Redman's Quartet with bassist Christian McBride and drummer Brian Blade in the mid-1990s, and has led his own trio since the early 1990s.