Highway Rider

2010 studio album by Brad Mehldau

Highway Rider

Studio album by

Brad Mehldau

Released| 16 March 2010[1]
Recorded| February 16–28 and May 12–19, 2009
Studio| Ocean Way Studios, Hollywood, CA [2]
Genre| Jazz
Length| 104:00
Label| Nonesuch Records
Producer| Jon Brion
Brad Mehldau chronology
| Long Ago and Far Away
(2007)  | Highway Rider
(2009)  | Love Songs
(2010)

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic|  [3]
DownBeat|  [4]
Sputnikmusic| 4/5[5]
Tom Hull| B+[6]

Highway Rider is a contemporary jazz album by American pianist Brad Mehldau released in 2010 by Nonesuch Records.

## Background[edit]

It was Mehldau's second collaboration with producer Jon Brion (the other is the 2002 album Largo), and it features saxophonist Joshua Redman, drummer Matt Chamberlain, and Chamber orchestra led by Dan Coleman, as well as Mehldau's regular trio partners, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard.

## Track listing[edit]

All tracks are written by Brad Mehldau.

Disc oneNo.| Title| Length

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1.| "John Boy"| 3:15
2.| "Don't Be Sad"| 8:40
3.| "At the Tollbooth"| 1:07
4.| "Highway Rider"| 7:45
5.| "The Falcon Will Fly Again"| 8:21
6.| "Now You Must Climb Alone"| 4:05
7.| "Walking the Peak"| 8:00

Disc twoNo.| Title| Length

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1.| "We'll Cross the River Together"| 12:28
2.| "Capriccio"| 5:20
3.| "Sky Turning Grey [for Elliott Smith]"| 6:24
4.| "Into the City"| 7:36
5.| "Old West"| 8:28
6.| "Come with Me"| 6:19
7.| "Always Departing"| 6:20
8.| "Always Returning"| 9:52

## Personnel[edit]

Band

* Brad Mehldau – Piano (Disc 1: 1–5, 7; Disc 2: 1–6, 8), Pump Organ (Disc 1: 2; Disc 2: 3), Yamaha CS-80 Polyphonic Analog Synthesizer (Disc 1: 4), Orchestral Bells (Disc 1: 7; Disc 2: 1, 8), Handclaps (Disc 2: 2)
* Jeff Ballard – Percussion (Disc 1: 1, 5; Disc 2: 2), snare brush (Disc 1: 2), Drums (Disc 1: 7; Disc 2: 1, 4, 6, 8); Handclaps (Disc 2: 2)
* Joshua Redman – Soprano Saxophone (Disc 1: 1, 5; Disc 2: 2, 8), Tenor Saxophone (Disc 1: 2, 7; Disc 2: 1, 3, 5), Handclaps (Disc 2: 2)
* Larry Grenadier – Bass (Disc 1: 2, 4, 7; Disc 2: 1, 3, 4, 6, 8), Handclaps (Disc 2: 2)
* Matt Chamberlain – drums (Disc 1: 2, 4, 5, 7, 8; Disc 2: 2, 3), Handclaps (Disc 2: 2)
* Orchestra, Dan Coleman, Conductor (Disc 1: 1, 2, 6, 7; Disc 2: 1, 7, 8)
* The Fleurettes – Vocals (Disc 1: 5)

Production

* Jon Brion – producer, mixing
* Gregg Koller – engineer, mixing
* Eric Caudieux – engineer
* Alan Yoshida – mastering
* Robert Hurwitz – executive producer
* Richard Misrach – cover photograph
* Lawrence Azerrad – graphic design

## References[edit]

1. ^ Nonesuch (2010-03-16). "Brad Mehldau: Highway Rider". Retrieved 2010-03-16.
2. ^ Brad Mehldau (2010-11-11). "Brad Mehldau official site". Archived from the original on 2010-11-05. Retrieved 2010-11-11.
3. ^ Jurek, Thom. Highway Rider at AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-11-04.
4. ^ Panken, Ted (June 2010) "Brad Mehldau: Highway Rider". Down Beat. p. 54.
5. ^ "Brad Mehldau: Highway Rider". Sputnikmusic. sputnikmusic.com. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
6. ^ "Tom Hull: Grade List: Brad Mehldau". Tom Hull. Retrieved 13 July 2020.

## Further reading[edit]

* Mats Arvidson: An Imaginary Musical Road Movie: Transmedial Semiotic Structures in Brad Mehldau's Concept Album Highway Rider THE FACULTIES OF HUMANITIES AND THEOLOGY LUND UNIVERSITY

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Brad Mehldau

Studio albums|

* Consenting Adults (1994)
* Introducing Brad Mehldau (1995)
* The Art of the Trio Volume One (1996)
* Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz (1996)
* Songs: The Art of the Trio Volume Three (1998)
* Elegiac Cycle (1999)
* Places (2000)
* Largo (2002)
* Anything Goes (2002)
* House on Hill (2005)
* Day Is Done (2005)
* Metheny Mehldau
* Metheny/Mehldau Quartet (2005)
* Love Sublime (2006)
* Highway Rider (2009)
* Love Songs (2010)
* Modern Music (2010)
* Ode (2011)
* Where Do You Start (2011)
* Variations on a Melancholy Theme (2013)
* Mehliana: Taming the Dragon (2014)
* Blues and Ballads (2014)
* Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau (2016)
* After Bach (2017)
* Seymour Reads the Constitution! (2018)
* Finding Gabriel (2018)
* Suite: April 2020 (2020)
* Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles (2020)
* Jacob’s Ladder (2022)

Live albums|

* New York-Barcelona Crossing, Volumen 1 (1993)
* New York-Barcelona Crossing, Volumen 2 (1993)
* When I Fall in Love (1993)
* Live at the Village Vanguard: The Art of the Trio Volume Two (1997)
* Art of the Trio 4: Back at the Vanguard (1999)
* Progression: The Art of the Trio, Vol. 5 (2000)
* Live in Tokyo (2003)
* Brad Mehldau Trio Live (2006)
* Live in Marciac (2006)
* Long Ago and Far Away (2007)
* Nearness (2011)
* 10 Years Solo Live (2014)

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