Songs: The Art of the Trio Volume Three

Songs: The Art of the Trio Volume Three
Studio album by
Brad Mehldau
Released September 15, 1998
Recorded May 27 & 28, 1998
Studio Right Track, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length 59:15
Label Warner Bros.
9362-47051-2
Producer Matt Pierson
Brad Mehldau chronology
Live at the Village Vanguard: The Art of the Trio Volume Two
(1997) 		Songs: The Art of the Trio Volume Three
(1998) 		Elegiac Cycle
(1999)

Songs: The Art of the Trio Volume Three is an album by American pianist and composer Brad Mehldau released on the Warner Bros. label in 1998. It was produced by Matt Pierson.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic
The Penguin Guide to Jazz
The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide

AllMusic awarded the album 4½ stars and in its review by Steve Huey, stated "this is a fine program easily recommended to straight-ahead collectors". For the New Statesman, Richard Cook wrote that "Songs enters the piano tradition without a murmur of protest while still offering music that is bursting loose of the accepted trinity of piano, bass and drums."

Track listing

All compositions by Brad Mehldau except as indicated

  1. "Song-Song" - 6:29
  2. "Unrequited" - 6:07
  3. "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) - 5:57
  4. "Exit Music (For a Film)" (Radiohead) - 4:23
  5. "At a Loss" - 6:19
  6. "Convalescent" - 5:58
  7. "For All We Know" (J. Fred Coots, Sam M. Lewis) - 7:59
  8. "River Man" (Nick Drake) - 4:47
  9. "Young at Heart" (Carolyn Leigh, Johnny Richards) - 6:20
  10. "Sehnsucht" - 4:56

Personnel

Production
  • Matt Pierson – producer
  • James Farber – engineering
  • Greg Calbi – mastering
  • Dana Watson – production coordination
  • Tom Tavee – photography
  • Art Direction and Design by Rey International