Brad Mehldau (piano) Larry Grenadier (bass) Jeff Ballard (drums)

After his Village Vanguard performance following the release of The Art Of The Trio, Volume One, The New York Times said, “Mr. Mehldau, who spent most of the hour with eyes closed and head crooked into his chest like a sleeping bird, reached into the subconscious and took the songs at a run, rearranging all the accents of the melodies; his song-like improvisations took off from those jumbled rhythms.”