Brad Mehldau has given listeners so much great music over the years, ranging from the amazing jazz recordings he’s crafted with his acclaimed trio to collaborations with the likes of Pat Metheny, Joshua Redman and Renée Fleming to an assortment of solo piano works.
On Feb. 10, music lovers will get to hear something new from the acclaimed pianist-composer as Mehldau delivers the Bay Area premiere of “Fourteen Reveries” at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley.
This new solo work was co-commissioned by Cal Performances, the same organization that is presenting the show, and reportedly finds the artist reflecting “on the interior experience we create from our own consciousness, independently of those around us.”
“Written from a similar impulse as his ‘Suite: April 2020,’ ‘Fourteen Reveries’ is a meditation on the space a composer leaves between specific directions in the score that lets the beauty of the music reveal itself as it allows for new discovery,” according to the information on the Cal Performances website.
Mehldau will also be performing material from “Suite: April 2020,” a 15-track album that the pianist recorded in Amsterdam early on during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Showtime is 8 p.m. and tickets start at $42, calperformances.org.
Following the Berkeley date, Mehldau also performs a sold-out solo show at the intimate Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz on Feb. 12, kuumbwajazz.org.
Source: www.mercurynews.com