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Music : The Art of the Trio Vol.2
Rating: 
- Musically brilliant and technically impressive. Do hear him
Let me say that I love everything Mehldau has put out with the exceptions of Largo, Elegiac Cycle, and the Art of the Trio Volume.1 - which I merely like a lot.
To my ears, Volume 2 is quite an improvement over Volume 1 if only because you actually hear him playing jazz live in a club to an audience and not in a sterile studio setting. This gives the trio a chance to really stretch and Mehldau especially lets loose in his solos. If you prefer just to hear him play beautiful tunes and his now idiosyncratic licks in short doses, then go for Volume 3 which has the best mix of songs that he has so far come up with. If you like jazz more for what goes on between the melodies, improvisation and interaction, however, then you might as well start here and just be amazed at the independence of his hands and the good effect to which he uses that, the impressive unaccompanied solo on Countdown and very nicely played ballad, Moon River, to show that he's not all frills.
I would also recommend this over Volume 4 as I think that it's quite rewarding to hear him tackle standards and how he makes those well-worn melodies personal and also because the playing and the arrangements, overall, are more consistently adventurous in Volume 2.
In any case, Mehldau is an impressive musician and Volumes 2-5 all feature impressive and moving music making by this highly able and interacting trio.
- Musically brilliant and technically impressive. Do hear himLet me say that I love everything Mehldau has put out with the exceptions of Largo, Elegiac Cycle, and the Art of the Trio Volume.1 - which I merely like a lot.
To my ears, Volume 2 is quite an improvement over Volume 1 if only because you actually hear him playing jazz live in a club to an audience and not in a sterile studio setting. This gives the trio a chance to really stretch and Mehldau especially lets loose in his solos. If you prefer just to hear him play beautiful tunes and his now idiosyncratic licks in short doses, then go for Volume 3 which has the best mix of songs that he has so far come up with. If you like jazz more for what goes on between the melodies, improvisation and interaction, however, then you might as well start here and just be amazed at the independence of his hands and the good effect to which he uses that, the impressive unaccompanied solo on Countdown and very nicely played ballad, Moon River, to show that he's not all frills.
I would also recommend this over Volume 4 as I think that it's quite rewarding to hear him tackle standards and how he makes those well-worn melodies personal and also because the playing and the arrangements, overall, are more consistently adventurous in Volume 2.
In any case, Mehldau is an impressive musician and Volumes 2-5 all feature impressive and moving music making by this highly able and interacting trio.