Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This combination of images shows cover art for Brad Mehldau's “Après Fauré," left, and “After Bach II." (Nonesuch Records via AP) ...

Wynton Marsalis has said that the defining characteristic of jazz is “relaxed intensity.” The pianist and composer Brad Mehldau somewhat fits that description, although with Mehldau it’s more like ...

Sometimes it's not a good idea to mess with a good thing. Pianist Brad Mehldau's trio has remained stable since emerging on the scene in the mid-1990s, giving it time to evolve and establish the kind ...

Brad Mehldau’s new album includes a cover of the Rush song “Tom Sawyer,” which brings to mind Mark Twain, which brings to mind a quote attributed to Twain regarding the music of Mahler: “It’s better ...

The Brad Mehldau Trio has an excellent new album, “Blues and Ballads,” coming out June 3, but only played one song from it Friday. Instead, its show at Berklee Performance Center demonstrated the ...

For a pianist who not only demonstrated remarkable promise, but actually began delivering on it at a very early stage in his career with what would ultimately become his five-part Art of the Trio ...

Grammy-winning mandolinist/instrumentalist Chris Thile and Grammy-nominated jazz pianist Brad Mehldau are no strangers to many admirers of virtuoso musicianship ...

At this point, there's nothing special about jazz musicians playing post-Beatles pop: It's just the new normal. But one of the trendsetters on that score was pianist Brad Mehldau and his versions of ...

Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify and Apple playlists at the bottom of the page. The jazz pianist Brad Mehldau has ...