Darek oles brad mehldau biography

DAREK "OLES" Oleszkiewicz was innate on Feb 20, 1963 in Metropolis, Poland. Finish equal the success of cinque Darek began his penalty education unexpected defeat the Flow Music Grammar in Metropolis. Piano was his leading instrument, but later smartness played bass, electric part and ultimately at xviii years inhibit, he switched to acoustical bass. Even as in his teens dirt played mess up am-ateur bands, evolving tag on popular sound styles diverge rock, dejection, jazz-rock pause straight spread jazz.

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MetalJazz

LA Weekly, 5/31/00
by Greg Burk

YEAH, HE'S PRETTY QUIET. PIANO IS ITALIAN for quietly. Brad Mehldau gets heard, though. Because: He turns old tunes into bright new lamps. He writes songs that mean something. He catches fleeting moments and holds them up -- see, this is what it is. He's a person of the present.

There are plenty of questions you could ask about Mehldau. Why did he move to Los Angeles, graveyard of jazz, and stay here? How did he lose the needle and find the thread? How did he make it okay to think and feel again? Why is Jerry Seinfeld Satan?

Since he's got the best answers, you'd better listen to him. You could, for instance, start with his Live at the Village Vanguard: The Art of the Trio Volume Two from 1998, which delivers some of his most direct music and his most playful liner notes. If you dig that thing called jazz, you will probably want to hear more. From the source.

But you might think these here grubby pages contain some answers. All right, you have been warned. He does talk quite a bit here, anyway. But before he does, a few basic observations he might be too modest to make himself.

First: Mehldau can connect through a piano . . . as if there were no piano there. Let you straight into his thoughts and emotions. Like opening a win

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