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Artist: Brad Mehldau | Label: Nonesuch | Format: 2xLP | Genre: Jazz| Album Condition: New | Cover Condition: Sealed
Brad Mehldau
Into the Sun: The Music of Elliott Smith
Nonesuch 727825 – 2 LP set
Nonesuch Records releases pianist and composer Brad Mehldaus Ride into the Suna songbook record of music by the late singer, songwriter, and guitarist Elliott Smith. Featured musicians include singer/guitarist Daniel Rossen (Grizzly Bear); singer/mandolinist Chris Thile (Punch Brothers, Nickel Creek); bassists Felix Moseholm (Brad Mehldau Trio) and John Davis; drummer Matt Chamberlain (FionaApple, Tori Amos, Randy Newman, etc.); and a chamber orchestra led by Dan Coleman. Ride into the Suns ten Elliott Smith songs are complemented by four Mehldau compositions that he says are inspired by, and reflect, Smiths oeuvre. Also included are interpretations of Big Stars Thirteen, which Smith also covered, and Sunday by Nick Drake, who Mehldau says, I look at in some ways assort of Smiths visionary godfather. Recalling how he first got to know Smith and his music, which has been a regular part of his repertoire for years, Mehldau said that after years living in New York, he moved to Los Angeles and there was this wonderful scene of singer-songwriters that was congregating at a club called Largo. That included Elliott but it also included artists like Rufus Wainwright, Fiona Apple. And then other musicians who had been around for a while would come down every Friday night to sit in on a gig that was led by Jon Brion. I played behind Elliott on his own tunes with Jon. It felt to me like a kind of renaissance in songwriting that flourished for a number of years.
Includes:
Side 1
Better Be Quiet Now
Everything Means Nothing To Me
Tomorrow Tomorrow (feat Daniel Rossen)
Sweet Adeline
Sweet Adeline Fantasy
Side 2
Between The Bars
The White Lady Loves You More
Ride Into the Sun (part 1)
Thirteen
Side 3
Everybody Cares, Everybody Understands
Somebody Cares, Somebody Understands
Southern Belle (feat Daniel Rossen)
Satellite
Side 4
Colorbars (feat Chris Thiele)
Sunday
Ride Into the Sun: Conclusion
NEW SEALED 2 LP set
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