Highway Rider
2010 studio album by Brad Mehldau
Highway Rider | ||||
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Studio album by Brad Mehldau | ||||
Released | 16 March 2010[1] | |||
Recorded | February 16–28 and May 12–19, 2009 | |||
Studio | Ocean Way (Hollywood, California)[2] | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 104:00 | |||
Label | Nonesuch Records | |||
Producer | Jon Brion | |||
Brad Mehldau chronology | ||||
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AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
DownBeat | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Sputnikmusic | 4/5[5] |
Tom Hull | B+[6] |
Highway Rider is an album by Brad Mehldau, released in 2010 by Nonesuch Records.
Background
It was Mehldau's second collaboration with producer Jon Brion (after Largo),[7] and it features saxophonist Joshua Redman, drummer Matt Chamberlain, and a chamber orchestra led by Dan Coleman, as well as Mehldau's regular trio partners, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard.
Track listing
All tracks are written by Brad Mehldau
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "John Boy" | 3:15 |
2. | "Don't Be Sad" | 8:40 |
3. | "At the Tollbooth" | 1:07 |
4. | "Highway Rider" | 7:45 |
5. | "The Falcon Will Fly Again" | 8:21 |
6. | "Now You Must Climb Alone" | 4:05 |
7. | "Walking the Peak" | 8:00 |
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "We'll Cross the River Together" | 12:28 |
2. | "Capriccio" | 5:20 |
3. | "Sky Turning Grey [for Elliott Smith]" | 6:24 |
4. | "Into the City" | 7:36 |
5. | "Old West" | 8:28 |
6. | "Come with Me" | 6:19 |
7. | "Always Departing" | 6:20 |
8. | "Always Returning" | 9:52 |
Personnel
Band
- Brad Mehldau – Piano (Disc 1: 1–5, 7; Disc 2: 1–6, 8), Pump Organ (Disc 1: 2; Disc 2: 3), Yamaha CS-80 Polyphonic Analog Synthesizer (Disc 1: 4), Orchestral Bells (Disc 1: 7; Disc 2: 1, 8), Handclaps (Disc 2: 2)
- Jeff Ballard – Percussion (Disc 1: 1, 5; Disc 2: 2), snare brush (Disc 1: 2), Drums (Disc 1: 7; Disc 2: 1, 4, 6, 8); Handclaps (Disc 2: 2)
- Joshua Redman – Soprano Saxophone (Disc 1: 1, 5; Disc 2: 2, 8), Tenor Saxophone (Disc 1: 2, 7; Disc 2: 1, 3, 5), Handclaps (Disc 2: 2)
- Larry Grenadier – Bass (Disc 1: 2, 4, 7; Disc 2: 1, 3, 4, 6, 8), Handclaps (Disc 2: 2)
- Matt Chamberlain – drums (Disc 1: 2, 4, 5, 7, 8; Disc 2: 2, 3), Handclaps (Disc 2: 2)
- Orchestra, Dan Coleman, Conductor (Disc 1: 1, 2, 6, 7; Disc 2: 1, 7, 8)
- The Fleurettes – Vocals (Disc 1: 5)
Production
- Jon Brion – producer, mixing
- Gregg Koller – engineer, mixing
- Eric Caudieux – engineer
- Alan Yoshida – mastering
- Robert Hurwitz – executive producer
- Richard Misrach – cover photograph
- Lawrence Azerrad – graphic design
References
- ^ Nonesuch (2010-03-16). "Brad Mehldau: Highway Rider". Retrieved 2010-03-16.
- ^ Brad Mehldau (2010-11-11). "Brad Mehldau official site". Archived from the original on 2010-11-05. Retrieved 2010-11-11.
- ^ Jurek, Thom. Highway Rider at AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-11-04.
- ^ Panken, Ted (June 2010) "Brad Mehldau: Highway Rider". Down Beat. p. 54.
- ^ "Brad Mehldau: Highway Rider". Sputnikmusic. sputnikmusic.com. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- ^ "Tom Hull: Grade List: Brad Mehldau". Tom Hull. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
- ^ Mehldau, Brad (2023). Formation: Building a Personal Canon, Part One. Equinox. p. 218. ISBN 978-1-80050-313-7.
Further reading
- Mats Arvidson: An Imaginary Musical Road Movie: Transmedial Semiotic Structures in Brad Mehldau's Concept Album Highway Rider THE FACULTIES OF HUMANITIES AND THEOLOGY LUND UNIVERSITY
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- Consenting Adults (1994)
- Introducing Brad Mehldau (1995)
- The Art of the Trio Volume One (1996)
- Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz (1996)
- Songs: The Art of the Trio Volume Three (1998)
- Elegiac Cycle (1999)
- Places (2000)
- Largo (2002)
- Anything Goes (2002)
- House on Hill (2005)
- Day Is Done (2005)
- Metheny Mehldau
- Metheny/Mehldau Quartet (2005)
- Love Sublime (2006)
- Highway Rider (2009)
- Love Songs (2010)
- Modern Music (2010)
- Ode (2011)
- Where Do You Start (2011)
- Variations on a Melancholy Theme (2013)
- Mehliana: Taming the Dragon (2014)
- Blues and Ballads (2014)
- Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau (2016)
- After Bach (2017)
- Seymour Reads the Constitution! (2018)
- Finding Gabriel (2018)
- Suite: April 2020 (2020)
- Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles (2020)
- Jacob’s Ladder (2022)
- The Folly of Desire (2022)
- New York-Barcelona Crossing, Volumen 1 (1993)
- New York-Barcelona Crossing, Volumen 2 (1993)
- When I Fall in Love (1993)
- Live at the Village Vanguard: The Art of the Trio Volume Two (1997)
- Art of the Trio 4: Back at the Vanguard (1999)
- Progression: The Art of the Trio, Vol. 5 (2000)
- Live in Tokyo (2003)
- Brad Mehldau Trio Live (2006)
- Live in Marciac (2006)
- Long Ago and Far Away (2007)
- Nearness (2011)
- 10 Years Solo Live (2014)
- Formation (2023)