Album
Seymour Reads The Constitution!
2017 · Jazz
Rare pressing on Gatefold
Seymour Reads The Constitution! is a Jazz album by Brad Mehldau Trio, originally released in 2017. On Gatefold: 6 pressings tracked.
About
In a dream, pianist Brad Mehldau heard the late Philip Seymour Hoffman reading the Constitution while a melody played. That melody became the title track here, a loping slow waltz that captures Mehldau’s venerated trio in all its soulful subtlety and restraint. The standard “Almost Like Being in Love,” by contrast, recalls the unstoppable tempos of some of Mehldau’s earliest recordings. Bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard are in full mind-meld, whether it’s Beach Boys and Paul McCartney reinventions (“Friends,” “Great Day”) or knotty originals like “Spiral” and “Ten Tune.”
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Tracklist
- 1Spiral8:33
- 2Seymour Reads the Constitution8:06
- 3Almost Like Being in Love5:41
- 4De-Dah8:46
- 5Friends8:15
- 6Ten Tune10:07
- 7Great Day5:54
- 8Beatrice8:54
Sound DNA
- Jazz
- Post-Bop & Modal
- clean
- meditative
- cerebral
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Brad MehldauPIANO
- Jeff BallardDRUMS
- Larry GrenadierBASS
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 6 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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