Brad Mehldau Trio – review

Barbican, LondonPianist Brad Mehldau is a cerebral sort. He's a superb classical technician, someone who can turn jazz standards into Bach-like fugues, all spidery left-hand arpeggios and complex right-hand workouts. But his USP has been to balance all that highbrow stuff against his exploratory deconstructions of unlikely rock tunes: you could put together a terrific playlist of his Radiohead covers alone.Fittingly, tonight's show starts and ends with pop standards – a bossa reading of the B...

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