Long Ago And Far Away

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Mehldau takes [full] advantage of the bassist’s Ornette-tested ability to adapt to an improvised melody when it strays outside the harmony... It's music of an unsurprisingly private intimacy,... — Jazzwise, December 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 26th Oct 2018
Catalogue No: 6789500
Label: Impulse! Records
Length: 71 minutes

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Parker, Charlie: Au Privave

Work length9:56

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Charlie Haden (double bass), Brad Mehldau (piano)
Recorded: 2007-11-05
Recording Venue: Mannheim

Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston: My Old Flame

Work length9:14

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Charlie Haden (double bass), Brad Mehldau (piano)
Recorded: 2007-11-05
Recording Venue: Mannheim

Berlin, I: What'll I do?

Work length12:00

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Charlie Haden (double bass), Brad Mehldau (piano)
Recorded: 2007-11-05
Recording Venue: Mannheim

Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern: Long Ago And Far Away

Work length15:05

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Charlie Haden (double bass), Brad Mehldau (piano)
Recorded: 2007-11-05
Recording Venue: Mannheim

David Raksin, Johnny Mercer: My Love And I

Work length12:59

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Charlie Haden (double bass), Brad Mehldau (piano)
Recorded: 2007-11-05
Recording Venue: Mannheim

Matt Dennis, Thomas Adair: Everything Happens To Me

Work length12:38

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Charlie Haden (double bass), Brad Mehldau (piano)
Recorded: 2007-11-05
Recording Venue: Mannheim

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September 7 (New York, NY) – Legendary jazz bass player Charlie Haden and pianist Brad Mehldau joined forces back in November 2007 to perform together at the Christuskirche church in Mannheim, resulting in the live recording Long Ago and Far Away. After 11 years, the recording will finally be released globally on October 26 on Impulse! Records. After meeting for the first time back in 1993, Haden found a way to bring Mehldau out to LA to perform with himself and Lee Konitz at the Jazz Bakery in 1996. This led to a trio recording on Blue Note (1997) called Alone Together. In 2011, he and Brad recorded a live album with Lee Konitz and Paul Motian for ECM called Live at Birdland. Mehldau and Haden remained friends from the time of their first meeting – they had a special connection. In the early days, Haden, in a sense, mentored this young pianist in life lessons. He would later go on to pronounce Mehldau one of the most important musicians of his generation because of his unique voice, his depth of knowledge and facility on the instrument, and how he has moved the language of jazz forward.

In 2007, the director of the Enjoy Jazz Festival in Heidelberg, Germany invited the two musicians to perform together. The two musicians had never before performed in duo, so they both eagerly agreed. The concert took place in a beautiful church, the Christuskirche, in Mannheim. Haden listened to the tape often and dearly wanted to release it at some point. Finally the recording is made available via Impulse! records and proof of the dazzling interaction between two genius musicians, recorded in hallowed space of an art nouveau cathedral, is here.

Brad Mehldau says of the performance with Haden, “It’s thrilling to play with someone who improvises like this. After all, this is the guy who did it first on his instrument. Those early seminal records of the Ornette Coleman Quartet like This is Our Music or Change of the Century were not “free” in the sense that they abandoned the principles of harmony. They often were free of a fixed harmonic schema, though, and Charlie was improvising the harmony, from the ground up.” Ruth Cameron Haden says of the music, “(...) Charlie is gone now, and this recording was made “long ago and far away”, yet the music remains immediate. The music is now.”

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December 2018

Mehldau takes [full] advantage of the bassist’s Ornette-tested ability to adapt to an improvised melody when it strays outside the harmony... It's music of an unsurprisingly private intimacy, but it speaks volumes.

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