Brad Mehldau - Ride into the Sun (2025)
Brad Mehldau - Ride into the Sun (2025)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 356 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 170 Mb | 01:12:47
Chamber Jazz | Label: Nonesuch Records
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 356 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 170 Mb | 01:12:47
Chamber Jazz | Label: Nonesuch Records
Nonesuch Records released pianist and composer Brad Mehldau’s Ride into the Sun—a songbook record of music by the late singer, songwriter, and guitarist Elliott Smith—on August 29, 2025. Featured musicians include singer/guitarist Daniel Rossen (Grizzly Bear); singer/mandolinist Chris Thile (Punch Brothers, Nickel Creek); bassists Felix Moseholm (Brad Mehldau Trio, Samara Joy) and John Davis (who also engineered and mixed the album); drummer Matt Chamberlain (Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Randy Newman); and a chamber orchestra led by Dan Coleman, who also conducted on Mehldau’s 2010 album Highway Rider.Tracklist:
Ride into the Sun’s ten Elliott Smith songs are complemented by four Mehldau compositions that he says are “inspired by, and reflect, Smith’s oeuvre.” Also included are interpretations of Big Star’s “Thirteen,” which Smith also covered, and “Sunday” by Nick Drake, who Mehldau says, “I look at in some ways as sort of Smith’s visionary grandfather.”
Recalling how he first got to know Smith and his music, which has been a regular part of his repertoire for years, Mehldau said that after years living in New York, he moved to Los Angeles “and there was this wonderful scene of singer-songwriters that was congregating at a club called Largo. That included Elliott but it also included artists like Rufus Wainwright, Fiona Apple. And then other musicians who had been around for a while would come down every Friday night to sit in on a gig that was led by Jon Brion. I played behind Elliott on his own tunes with Jon. It felt to me like a kind of renaissance in songwriting that flourished for a number of years.”
“Elliott Smith masterfully rendered the dark/light admix not in the least through his distinct harmony,” Mehldau continues. “Specifically, he had a way of combining major and minor modes that was all his own. You hear that on the unique, captivating chord progression that he introduced on ‘Tomorrow Tomorrow’ for just a moment before the last verse of the song. I use it, extending it for my piano solo here. This kind of minor-major gambit has a long pedigree, and my own associations as a listener include the music of Schubert and Brahms, among others.
“’Ride into the sun’ is a beautiful point in the lyric of one of the songs that we play, ‘Colorbars,’” Mehldau says. “Elliott Smith says in the original song, ‘Everyone wants me to ride into the sun.’ When I listen to music, I have a feeling that I can be in communion with somebody who is no longer in this earthly realm, like he is here. And as far as ‘riding into the sun,’ it’s maybe more of a perpetual riding into the sun with him. I don’t know … There’s something mystical there.”
“Brad Mehldau is one of the most influential and acclaimed jazz pianists alive today," exclaims NPR's Fresh Air. "His many recordings feature a wide range of jazz and American popular song standards, but he is also known to interpret music that lies outside the typical jazz catalogue.” Mojo says: “Mehldau has forged a singular style that has not only enhanced jazz’s musical vocabulary but modernised it too.” The New Yorker asserts: “Brad Mehldau is arguably the greatest working jazz pianist. Top five, for sure.”
1. Better Be Quiet Now (04:03)
2. Everything Means Nothing to Me (05:19)
3. Tomorrow Tomorrow (feat. Daniel Rossen) (04:02)
4. Sweet Adeline (03:21)
5. Sweet Adeline Fantasy (04:44)
6. Between the Bars (05:01)
7. The White Lady Loves You More (04:40)
8. Ride into the Sun: Part I (03:19)
9. Thirteen (04:01)
10. Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands (04:01)
11. Somebody Cares, Somebody Understands (03:48)
12. Southern Belle (feat. Daniel Rossen) (03:52)
13. Satellite (03:52)
14. Colorbars (feat. Chris Thile) (05:23)
15. Sunday (03:33)
16. Ride into the Sun: Conclusion (09:38)
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Brad Mehldau / Ride into the Sun
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Brad Mehldau / Ride into the Sun
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