Brad Mehldau
Piano Solo on
Alone Together

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Brad Mehldau's three-chorus piano solo is the second of three solos on this live trio performance of the Schwartz standard. Following Lee Konitz's alto statement, Mehldau takes the 36-bar AABA form at 155 BPM in D minor, revealing the gift for combining classical sensitivity with jazz spontaneity that was rapidly establishing him as one of the most important pianists of his generation. At 25 to 26 years old, Mehldau's three choruses demonstrate extraordinary harmonic imagination and rhythmic complexity, his lines weaving through the changes with a logic that is at once intellectual and deeply musical.

Brad Mehldau was 25 to 26 years old at the time.