Brad Mehldau/Kevin Hays: Modern Music – review

(Nonesuch)As he showed at the Wigmore Hall in duet with mandolinist Chris Thile recently, the US piano star Brad Mehldau treats one-to-one musical encounters as invitations to creativity outside his comfort zone; chances to explore worlds between contemporary idioms of very different kinds. This piano duet reunites Mehldau with old associate Kevin Hay – but there's a crucial non-playing third member in contemporary classical composer Patrick Zimmerli, who was originally engaged as the producer...

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