{"id":15462,"date":"2023-02-25T10:13:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T16:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=15462"},"modified":"2023-03-24T12:03:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T17:03:31","slug":"15462","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=15462","title":{"rendered":"Brad Mehldau: The Fifth Beatle? “Your Mother Should Know.”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Who was the fifth Beatle? Discarded drummer Pete Best? Pianist Billy Preston? On this album, jazz pianist Brad Mehldau makes a case as the keyboardist they might\u2019ve hired full-time. He plays Beatles songs as if he owns them, maybe even wrote them. That we experientially know he didn\u2019t deeply enhances his accomplishment. After all, your mother should know.<\/p>\n

As a topper, he closes with David Bowie\u2019s \u201cLife on Mars,\u201d as tuneful and high-spirited as a vintage Beatles song. Doubters note: on, \u201cI Saw Her Standing There\u201d he lays serious rock\u2018n\u2019roll chops out front. Otherwise, it\u2019s jazzy investigations and re-imaginings, which the \u201clate Beatles\u201d would\u2019ve dug. \u201cBaby\u2019s in Black\u201d travels way around the bend, and \u201cGolden Slumbers\u201d goes further, an elaborate dream mustered with Keith Jarrett-ish gospel romping.<\/p>\n

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Tauter, but no less intriguing, are \u201cFor No One,\u201d capturing the song\u2019s stark poignance, and \u201cShe Said She Said,\u201d the gorgeous Lennon tune that deserved such sophisticated ravishment.<\/p>\n

The album opens with \u201cI Am the Walrus\u201d the surreal psychedelic trip that is as harmonically bent as most any Beatles song. Mehldau revels in its little musical perversities.\u00a0Mehldau Plays<\/em>\u00a0further demonstrates the vast yet seemingly familiar Beatles world still spins out further possibilities of wonder.<\/p>\n

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This review was first published in The Shepherd Express<\/em>: Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays the Beatles (Nonesuch) by Brad Mehdau – Shepherd Express<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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