The history of jazz musicians covering the Fab Four is full of embarrassments, but there’s no reason it has to be “selling out.”
But this is the first time Mehldau has investigated just one pop band on an album and, riskier still, has done so in a solo live concert . A further risk, though telling, is that he passes over the Beatles’ most familiar hits for songs, including the title piece, that some younger listeners—who, like him, were born after the Beatles broke up—might not know .The album’s first track is “I Am the Walrus” , which fits Mehldau’s romantic-virtuoso tendencies.
which stretch the normal duration of a note, adding syncopation, tension, and a certain swing. Mehldau accents the dots with extra stress and laces them with improvisations on old and new styles.Mehldau turns “For No One” , an oddly pensive Beatles song, into a gorgeous meditation, slowing the melody, embellishing the harmony, wrapping each around the other.
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