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2004 studio album by Brad Mehldau
Anything Goes
Studio album by Brad Mehldau
ReleasedFebruary 24, 2004
RecordedOctober 8–9, 2002
StudioAvatar (New York City)
GenreJazz
Length62:59
LabelWarner Bros.
ProducerMatt Pierson, Brad Mehldau
Brad Mehldau chronology
Largo
(2002)
Anything Goes
(2002)
Live in Tokyo
(2003)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic
The Guardian
Now
The Penguin Guide to Jazz
Pitchfork7.8/10
Tom HullB+

Anything Goes is a contemporary jazz album by the Brad Mehldau trio. The title track is Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" arranged for the trio. The album, like many of Mehldau's other albums, contains several jazz arrangements of pop/rock songs, including "Still Crazy After All These Years" by Paul Simon, and "Everything in Its Right Place" by Radiohead.

Reception

Tim Perlich of Now stated, "Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau has never been much of a risk-taker, preferring instead to straddle the thin line that divides the progressively minded traditionalists and the conservative modernists. On the disappointing Anything Goes, Mehldau surrenders to his commercial impulses and adopts the clichéd contemporary pop-jazz album formula." John Fordham of The Guardian wrote, "As before, it's a mix of standards, quirkily personal choices and a Radiohead theme, but Anything Goes is likely to rank very high in the Mehldau trio list." Matt Collar of AllMusic commented, " Anything Goes moves from the expected to the inspired and that alone makes this worth a listen."

Track listing

  1. "Get Happy" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 9:47
  2. "Dreamsville" (Raymond B. Evans, Jay Livingston, Henry Mancini) – 5:03
  3. "Anything Goes" (Cole Porter) – 7:08
  4. "Tres Palabras" (Osvaldo Farrés) – 5:01
  5. "Skippy" (Thelonious Monk) – 5:24
  6. "Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington) – 6:43
  7. "Still Crazy After All These Years" (Paul Simon) – 5:21
  8. "Everything in Its Right Place" (Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood) – 6:55
  9. "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin, Geoff Parsons, James John Turner Phillips) – 6:48
  10. "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 4:49

Personnel

Credits

  • Produced by Brad Mehldau and Matt Pierson
  • Mastered by Greg Calbi
  • Engineered by James Farber, Steve Mazur, Aya Takemura
  • Photography by Warren Darius Aftahi
  • Production Coordination by Dana Watson

References

  1. Ouellette, Dan (March 6, 2004) "Brad Mehldau Trio: Anything Goes". Billboard. Volume 116/10. p. 35.
  2. ^ Collar, Matt "Brad Mehldau/Brad Mehldau Trio: Anything Goes: Review". AllMusic. Retrieved February 8, 2014.
  3. ^ Fordham, John (February 20, 2004) "Brad Mehldau, Anything Goes". The Guardian.
  4. ^ Perlich, Tim (4 March 2004). "Brad Mehldau Trio". NOW Magazine. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  5. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 990. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  6. Deusner, Stephen M. (March 22, 2004). "Brad Mehldau: Anything Goes". Pitchfork. pitchfork.com. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  7. "Tom Hull: Grade List: Brad Mehldau". Tom Hull. Retrieved 13 July 2020.

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