Brad Mehldau plays The Beatles

[Roger Farbey]

Brad Mehldau's new album Your Mother Should Know wraps a collection of Beatles tunes (plus a Bowie number) into one album. Mehldau has been interpreting the Fabs' number for years but only sporadically. Here it is full-on and at times totally fascinating - I Am The Walrus for solo piano anyone. Definitely worth a listen.

[Rooster_Ties]

From an earlier studio album, I’ve always found his solo reading of “Martha My Dead” inspired.

Would love for others here to listen (below), and give their impressions (good or bad).

 

[Roger Farbey]

9 hours ago, Rooster_Ties said:

From an earlier studio album, I’ve always found his solo reading of “Martha My Dead” inspired.

Would love for others here to listen (below), and give their impressions (good or bad).

 

Beautiful deconstruction; this less opaque but fascinating still…

 

[Jack Pine]

I hesitate to say anything if I can't say something nice, so I'll offer that it was a really finely tuned piano in that Martha fugue. And really well recorded!

[Rabshakeh]

I thought that the Walrus version was strong and interesting, but the rest of the album did not stand up to that level.

[JSngry]

 

From the 1967 album "Magical Mystery."

Bud Shank - saxophone & flute

Chet Baker - fluegelhorn

Gary Barone - fluegelhorn

Dennis Budimir - guitar

Herb Ellis - guitar

John Guerin - drums

Robert West - bass

Victor Feldman - percussion

mixed chorus

[Rabshakeh]

28 minutes ago, JSngry said:

 

From the 1967 album "Magical Mystery."

Bud Shank - saxophone & flute

Chet Baker - fluegelhorn

Gary Barone - fluegelhorn

Dennis Budimir - guitar

Herb Ellis - guitar

John Guerin - drums

Robert West - bass

Victor Feldman - percussion

mixed chorus

I like this record a fair bit.