Songs: The Art of the Trio Volume Three

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.[1][2] It was produced by Matt Pierson.[3]

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)

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	[4]
The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide	[5]

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".[1] 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."[3]

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

• Brad Mehldau – piano
• Larry Grenadier – double bass
• Jorge Rossy – drums

Production

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

References

1. Huey, Steve. "Brad Mehldau The Art of the Trio, Vol. 3: Songs - Review". Allmusic. Retrieved 2014-01-24.
2. "Discography of Brad Mehldau". Retrieved 2014-01-24.
3. Cook, Richard (November 6, 1998). "Keyed Up". New Statesman. pp. 40–41.
4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 989. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
5. Swenson, John (1999). The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide. Random House. Retrieved 23 September 2019. Brad Mehldau