[Note: I started typing this entry before midnight to be 8 June's song of the day but then blogger.com tech problems derailed me.]
"Exit Music (For a Film)" by Brad Mehldau (from the album, The Art of the Trio, Volume 4: Back at the Vanguard, 1999)
One of contemporary jazz piano's favorite sons covers a moody ballad by Britrock wunderkinds Radiohead. Mehldau strips away the sonic hullabaloo of Radiohead's moonscape production values and exposes the lovely melody lurking beneath, arranged here for piano trio. But while Mehldau brings a nakedness to the sound of the song, he opens up its form, turning an ostensibly simple melody into an expansive platform for improvisation. The result? Introspective, inventive, relevant jazz from a masterful, precocious talent.
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