![]() ![]() Mehldau has always been uncomfortable with these comparisons. Critics have consistently and repeatedly compared Mehldau to one of the greatest pianists of all time, Bill Evans, and more specifically to his trio. Thus, they distanced themselves from a good number of important formations that throughout the history of jazz have left their musical mark, and as if with it they wanted to make things clear from a good start. There is no doubt that the trio line-up is the group in which Mehldau, by nature, feels more comfortable on a musical level, with the particularity that when the recordings of their line-up appeared, they came to be named with the pretentious title of “ The art of the trio” (The Art of the trio). Mehldau has participated in countless recordings as a guest artist or sideman, with some of the best jazz musicians among others we mention Joshua Redman, Pat Metheny, Charles Lloyd, John Scofield, Lee Konitz, Charlie Haden, Kurt Rosenwinkel or Michael Brecker and even he came to compose the wonderful and very little appreciated (as well as very little known) soundtrack, “Ma femme est une actrice”. ![]() Likewise, he has several solo recordings, some of them of great interest, not only musical but also intellectual.
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