Brad Mehldau Trio with Larry Grenadier & Marcus Gilmore

Pianist Brad Mehldau grew up in Connecticut and came up through the New York jazz scene in the early 1990s. His trio with bassist Larry Grenadier, first with drummer Jorge Rossy and later Jeff Ballard, recorded the Art of the Trio series and became one of the main working piano trios of its era. This edition of the Brad Mehldau Trio pairs Mehldau and Grenadier with drummer Marcus Gilmore, grandson of Roy Haynes.

Mehldau mixes standards with songs from rock and pop, and his versions of Radiohead's 'Exit Music (For a Film)' and Nick Drake's 'River Man' are among his best-known performances. His left and right hands often play independent lines at once, which gives even simple melodies a dense, contrapuntal feel.