Brad Mehldau: Highway Rider | CD review

(Nonesuch)When Brad Mehldau and the American producer Jon Brion met to mix drum'n'bass hooks and electronics with classical woodwind and strings on 2002's Largo, the result was mercifully free of groove-classical cliches but sounded like a tentative first step. This one is the real deal. Some will consider this double-album to be soft jazz for the crossover market, but for all its avoidance of edginess, Highway Rider's contrasts and dramatic entries spring constant surprises, and show how much p...

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