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Brad Mehldau didn't ask that his 1997 debut recording be titled The Art of the Trio . But the moniker stuck, and the four subsequent issues under that name are consequential snapshots of the virtuoso's artistic growth and the evolution and refinement of the group's collective sound. Volume 5 is a double disk, recorded before an enthusiastic, attentive audience after several months on the road; the 13 tunes include three Mehldau originals ("Dream Monk," "Sublation," "Resignation"); covers of "River...

On this, Brad Mehldau's fifth installment of trio records, he returns to his jazzier roots by playing a series of standard tunes including "Long Ago and Far Away," "Alone Together," and "How Long H...

Release Date: 1999-09-28, Audio CD, Warner Bros / Wea

In listening to the five years of the Brad Mehldau Trio represented in this box set, one hears the unfolding of a new and significant part of modern jazz history, as the end of the 1990s opened the door on the explosive creative renaissance of the music in the 21st century. Nonesuch has compiled the five releases in the Art of the Trio series, as well as an additional disc of unreleased recordings from the same period (1997-2001), offering a serious reconsideration of what has already been accepted...

"His first piano trio … would indeed turn out to be the state of the art, challenging even Keith Jarrett's Standards Trio in terms both of its creativity and its international popularity…. Mehldau's trio began to favor more contemporary material, opening up their music to a younger, hipper generation…. [They] found their own path to the waterfall, and the resulting music stands alongside the best that has been produced in jazz in the last 25 years."— Irish Times