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"His interpretations are paused, weighing each note from your piano and every note seems to concentrate a world of seduction.
His music penetrates the sacred space where ephemeral rite takes the form of mystical experience 'with these words defined the jazz critic of El Pais, José María Martínez, the music of Brad Mehldau (Florida, 1970), a complimented the pianists of the past two decades, a privileged being who sometimes seems to have six fingers on each hand and two brains and coming to Cartagena Jazz Festival on Thursday 12 November at 21:30.
The concert at Teatro Circo Cartagena elNuevo, which is most common in their training, the trio, it costs 12 euros.
Brad Mehldadu became known internationally as a member of Joshua Redman Quartet, and was in the release of her second solo album when criticism welcomed him with great success.
Brad Mehldau combines the sophistication of classical learning with a strong jazz sensibility, influenced by musicians such as Franz Schubert, Keith Jarrett or Bill Evans.
His technique, while the poetry and lyricism expressed in their performances and compositions, he has earned the unanimous respect and admiration from critics and the public.
Since the release of his second album The Art Of The Trio Brad Mehldau projection as one of the great musicians have appeared in recent years has continued to grow making the rare unanimity of critics and audiences.
The pianist treasures some of the best qualities of great teachers, like that deep containment under which only sees his overwhelming technique, that allows you to create an amazing polyphony in the most vibrant of their concerts.
Mehldau's musical personality forms a dichotomy.
He is first and foremost an improviser, and formidably want to surprise and amaze, developing a spontaneous musical idea, which expresses directly in real time.
Mehldau also has a deep fascination for the formal architecture of music, and this affects everything he touches.
At its most inspired touch, the actual structure of his musical thought serves as an expressive device.
When he plays the piano, sounds like as they develop and put in order their ideas.
Each melody has a strong narrative thread, this is expressed with a beginning and an end, or a deliberate meanders.
The two sides of Mehldau's personality - the improviser and the formalist-play with each other and the effect obtained is often quite controlled chaos.
In addition to their projects with the trio or solo, Mehldau collaborated with a number of splendid jazz musicians, including a magnificent performance with saxophonist Joshua Redman's band for two years, record and perform with Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden and Lee Konitz, and recording with Michael Brecker, Wayne Shorter, John Scofield and Charles Lloyd.
For more than a decade working with a large number of musicians, with great mutual respect, including the guitarists Peter Bernstein and Kurt Rosenwinkel and tenor saxophonist Mark Turner.
Mehldau has also recorded outside the language of jazz, theater works of singer-songwriter Willie Nelson or Joe Henrys.
His music has appeared in several movies like "Eyes Wide Shut" by Stanley Kubrick and "Million Dollar Hotel 'to Win Wender.
He has also composed the soundtrack for the French film 'Ma Femme Est Une Actrice. "
Mehldau to two commissions composed for voice and piano at Carnegie Hall 'The Blues Estuaries' and' The Book of Hours: Love Poems to God "that premiered in 2005 by the acclaimed classical soprano Renee Fleming.
The songs were recorded by Fleming and removed for sale in 2006 on the album 'Love Sublime', simultaneously, Nonesuch she released an album of Mehldau with compositions for trio entitled "House on Hill.
In March 2007 Mehldau debuted a piano concerto "The Brady Bunch Variations for piano and orchestra" at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris with the Orchestre National d "Ile-de-France.
In early 2008 London's Wigmore Hall announced that Brad Mehldau would collaborate on a series of annual jazz concert at the prestigious venue in the season from October 2009 to November 2011, in which Mehldau appears in at least two of the four annual concerts
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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