Places (Brad Mehldau album)

Places
Studio album by Brad Mehldau
Released	September 5, 2000
Recorded	January 24 & 25 and March 24 & 25, 2000, at Mad Hatter Studio, Los Angeles
Genre	Jazz
Length	69:23
Label	Warner Bros. 9362-47693-2
Producer	Brad Mehldau
Brad Mehldau chronology
Art of the Trio 4: Back at the Vanguard (1999) Places (2000) Progression: The Art of the Trio, Vol. 5 (2001)

Places is an album by American pianist and composer Brad Mehldau released on the Warner Bros. label in 2000.^[1][2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	[3]

AllMusic awarded the album 4½ stars and in its review by Richard S. Ginell, stated "the album is about the constancy of his personality and musical language, taking all of your personal mental baggage with you wherever you travel. This is an important album, one that anyone interested in piano jazz ought to check out".^[1] On All About Jazz, David Adler noted "Each piece is named for a particular place (hence the title), which Mehldau attempts to represent in musical terms. In short, Places is a concept album, and a particularly effective one. For the most part, Mehldau holds his prodigious chops in check, preferring instead to conjure moods and memories with subtle nuances".^[4] JazzTimes reviewer, Bill Shoemaker commented "In addition to being a technically dazzling pianist, Mehldau has an arch sense of nuance; by changing the touch of a single note or introducing a single beat's rest in a long serpentine line, Mehldau can turn a smile or a frown upside down".^[5]

Track listing

All compositions by Brad Mehldau

1. "Los Angeles" - 5:21
2. "29 Palms" - 5:09
3. "Madrid" - 6:07
4. "Amsterdam" - 3:38
5. "Los Angeles II" - 5:18
6. "West Hartford" - 5:39
7. "Airport Sadness" - 4:48
8. "Perugia" - 3:52
9. "A Walk in the Park" - 5:59
10. "Paris" - 6:30
11. "Schloss Elmau" - 6:32
12. "Am Zauberberg" - 7:07
13. "Los Angeles (Reprise)" - 3:28

Personnel

• Brad Mehldau - piano
• Larry Grenadier - bass (tracks 1, 3, 6, 9, 11 and 13)
• Jorge Rossy - drums (tracks 1, 3, 6, 9, 11 and 13)

Credits

• Produced by Brad Mehldau
• Engineered by Bernie Kirsch
• Mastering by Andrew Garver
• Art direction and design by Lawrence Azerrad
• Photography by Michael Lewis

References

1. Ginell, Richard S. "Brad Mehldau Places - Review". Allmusic. Retrieved 2014-01-24.
2. "Discography of Brad Mehldau". Retrieved 2014-01-24.
3. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 989. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
4. Adler, D., All About Jazz Review, October 1, 2000
5. Shoemaker, B., Brad Mehldau Places Review, JazzTimes, December 2000