Mehliana (Brad Mehldau & Mark Guiliana) - Hungry Ghost (Live)

Mehliana, featuring Brad Mehldau & Mark Guiliana, performs "Hungry Ghost" at Largo in LA, October 2013. The song is featured on the album Mehliana: Taming the Dragon, out now on Nonesuch: mehliana.lnk.t...
Video directed/recorded by Alex Chaloff
#BradMehldau #MarkGuiliana

[@wpwentzell]

We need Nonesuch to release the live recordings yesterday! This is too good to be relegated to KZbin.

[@Fevers890]

a whole Mehliana live release would be fantastic

[@hursuoke2700]

Finally, Mehdlau out of his comfort zone.. and he is BRILLIANT... I have waited so long to hear him do something different.. and he just ROCKS the show now.. I can't even describe my feelings regarding the drummer.. man... he is a miracle..

[@jazzfusioner9840]

Miracles do happen....and in this case, Man, they are gifts galore....

[@patxmcq]

agreed, this one is hard to compute

[@ampeg]

Um the first time I saw Mehldau play was with Scott weiland with Daniel lanois at the rainbow in the late 90s. What I’m saying is I don’t think Brad is ever OUT of a comfort zone. Btw backstage Lanois and the rest were all “Holy shit the keyboardist!!” So they were just being exposed also!!

[@untrainedear]

This is still nowhere near getting old, and I've been rinsing it for nine years. Absolutely incredible.

[@jmfs3497]

same.

[@kenmeerlivermaile]

One of those pieces that finds a particularly compelling nerve and drives it to the dendritic end.

[@patrickl9930]

For a while I listened to it every time I worked out. 250 plays of this set, wish they would release more of it!

[@Diamond_Sandwich_media]

same

[@blahblahblah8011]

i was lucky to be at this concert and i haven't forgot a second of how i felt. it still feels the same. i told my friend, "i don't know where we went, but we're back now."

[@wingoshack]

I was lucky enough to be at this very show, and it was ridiculously awesome.

[@RK-to9zu]

Mark Guiliana is by far my favorite drummer of all time. In my opinion, every performance of him reaches a level of musicality that is very hard to match for everyone who sits on a drum kit. But this piece of music has such incredible tension; man, I love it!

[@salastuto139]

this just makes you feel something words dont describe

[@pornpori]

On top of everything, this is exquisitely filmed

[@Loporrr]

+Emilio Torres agreed that impresses me too

[@EtienneFolio]

Or not so much… There is too many useless views of the same thing : their backs for example, or the entire scene. It would have been better to actually see more of their game, especially the drummer's…

[@ufuk_c]

i guess that would be too intrusive for the musicians. it's more of a performance than a music video afterall...

[@TheSirEduard]

been thinking about it actually...i kind of think they might not want to get filmed how they play...?

[@TommyDrumVideo]

No musician I know hides the way he/she plays, unless it's an artistic statement - if I interpreted correctly what you mean. Music's about sharing, always.

[@headfunkinvadors2000]

SEVEN is the new EIGHT

[@heliumlemon15]

Preach son, 7/4 has groove

[@lukasjouck5070]

You're soo right! Not only to hear but it is very nice to play in 7

[@ziogustav]

@@lukasjouck5070 I still play in 8 and everything seems interesting ahahahah

[@patxmcq]

7 is the new 4

[@jacksims8018]

The chord progressions in this song are amazing! And 2:23, just wow...

[@caputo3us]

Brad's lines are killin. Mark sounds amazing. So inspiring.

[@vivien1252]

100% agreed.

[@JeffreyMulac8]

Mark Guiliana is such a bad-ass. Jeez listen to the groove and detail of his playing.

[@jeremymatho3593]

this is the music which represent the best our cosmos not just our little solar system i feel the enormous volume of gaz that can create a sun and many others

[@edgilchrist6374]

Flowing urgency. Love it.

[@negaatio666]

so much better than the album version

[@patxmcq]

album version slaps too tho

[@wpwentzell]

Indeed. I wish they would make an official release for this version. It smokes. So much soul.

[@natecloutier6894]

I can keep coming back to these live performances of songs off the album "Taming the Dragon" by Mehliana (posted by Nonesuch Records) and be certain that I'll find myself, again and again, enlightened and impressed by the amount of creativity displayed by the tandem of Mehldau and Guiliana.

[@miguelsilvestre5224]

I've been a Mehldau fan since ever and I went to a Mehliana concert in CCB (Lisbon, Portugal) without knowing what I will be listening and it was mindblowing. Totally unexpedcted. Since then I listened to this version hundreds of times...love the video, the sound without the synth of the recorded version and the small crowd... a classic.

[@zizo_mazaini]

I don’t how many time i cameback here play it again,

[@EmilioPortal]

sublimely astonishing.

[@colmeleon]

It is a rare recording that changes everything. This is onesuch. Pure ecstasy.

[@NathanAlef]

It's actually Nonesuch. Sorry, bad joke :)

[@HouseOfSpheres]

I love what Brad does with this tune. The composition has a strong minor feel, but he plays around enough just outside of the tonal center of the track to make it interesting.

[@arthurfranca5516]

Its kind of a major/minor feel

[@nngemini13]

Going deeper ... Love this sound layering opening up new pathways.

[@peter_marcelli]

You know you are spiritually connected to your instrument when you don't need to open your eyes to play it.

[@bobbob-dg1kt]

Wow. What a great tune. Love the rhythms, really nice. Takes me somewhere crazy and cosy at the same time.

[@KhalDrogo76]

two masters of their craft, creating on the spot...what else could you want

[@nadesmond6029]

My soul drives the wave. my heart beats with pure euphoria, my mind races with excitement and joy and my hands tap in and out with the beat. But ...Can someone please tell me if Mark Guiliana is human? and if so ...How? and what?? Like, Every time I get to that 6:00 minute my whole life comes to a stop.😭😭😭😭

[@HawklordLI]

Brad always seems open to experimentation. And it works! This number almost has a 'Doorsy' feel to it.

[@antoniohara]

Exactly! This tune reminds me of the Doors.

[@javiceres]

Good spot! Now that you say it I suddenly see it as well.

[@TheDayisMineTrebeck]

This is the song I put on for my friends trying pot for the first time.

[@PelegTsadok]

You know it's jazz when instrumentalists do that face.....

[@owenhu9465]

that's actually brad's resting face haha

[@junimeme5626]

I'd do the same face if I had a drummer turn my chords into such masterpiece. (sorry for the 5 years reply)

[@Brian4hand]

This joint is killin with the mood

[@aitorSonGall]

simply monsters of music...I like it!!!

[@patxmcq]

Was that a king crimson reference?

[@Alexandre-gb5rp]

Maravilhosos! Viva a musica de qualidade!!!

[@orilevi1123]

I'm a drummer so watching this just makes me let out a string of cusses for 8 minutes

[@christheghostwriter]

Ditto. I have tried just holding down the 7 on their song "Just Call me Nige," and can barely keep up. And I don't mean working al those syncopations. I mean just the groove. It's like trying to ride a roller coaster by hanging onto the outside of the car.

[@dmreeoogdaq]

Thank you for letting me know I am not alone.

[@emblemcc]

The drums are unbelievably beautiful .

[@alexsyro]

Such a full, beautiful sound. Really diggin this duo.

[@benjamincarney9875]

The music is of course fantastic, but I gotta say that the atmosphere of the room and the way this was filmed is really cool.

[@vinielol]

couldnot agree more for this kind of music it's only suiting that it is filmed this way

[@jakejke]

Fuck no, live music has never good angles, only variations of musicians superimposed..irritating

[@Channa1604]

Missing of my life .....you play this music....Thanks so much ♥

[@urielchamberlain599]

Just awesome!!!

[@ihazthots]

This right here is one great piece. The mix is just absorbing.

[@mantisarg7896]

Both are exquisite That's stuniishing, I can't listen to this song without moving all parts of my body. Pure magic

[@antonsenra]

Really tanks. Love you

[@DjAnthonySalvo]

I could watch this all day

[@wasimirojonesiii8708]

The generational bridge between Mehldau and Guiliana isn't that far apart, yet they exist in the same musical time: 7/8.

[@eyala]

Mark Guiliana is killing it on drams ... so dynamic

[@cansad]

🫠

[@rothdrums]

Inspiration. Beautiful music

[@fewree7319]

Right before 4:33, I love Mark Guiliana's few second musical lead up to Brad Mehldau's stank face of awe and appreciation. So badass and glorious to get, in real time, a genuine musical reaction from Brad. Guiliana tickled Mehldau's musical intellect. So fascinating!

[@DavidMacVicar]

man that snare sounds sick!

[@javiceres]

The whole kit I’d say. Mark is as great as crafting timbres as is at composing rhythms

[@carlocontestabileciaccio473]

Beyond the threshold of possibility. Magic

[@garryfranks1]

I heard aoither track on Jamie Cullen the other week . Its fair to say this is going to be the best jazz album in the last 30 years. God I love this xxx

[@LilikakiTsikris]

perfection.

[@MarkKamoski]

Love it. Brad and Mark, thank you SO much for the motivation and inspiration and all. Thanks. A lot. Please keep going.

[@laszlobeke7908]

No smoke screen.. no light-show... Just music.... At it's best.. amaizing...

[@JulianHaugland]

Omg! The interplay!! :D :D

[@jmfs3497]

Reminds me of a humid, summer night riding through empty city streets.

[@moniquecavard745]

j'adore! il est un de mes pianistes préférés.

[@kevin_maxwell_smith]

i never get tired of these vids

[@rostislavmikeska1163]

Moc pěkná prácička

[@jcrogers3854]

Massive we need more of this in the world !

[@baptistewxpolpodcast3339]

What's not to love about this?

[@henrycadman5564]

Genius.

[@patxmcq]

Mehldau, who I always knew before this as an acoustic grand piano player, comes outta nowhere with the most stacked synth rig of all time !!

[@psyclonoughts316]

great duo so dynamic

[@N8R_Quizzie]

Just found this song recently. I noticed it's hard to try to listen to the melody and the drums at the same time, but if you focus on one at a time, it's really great. Deciding when to switch your focus on to the melody or the drums provide a unique experience every time.

[@slashclash21bharat]

Would be great to have this LIVE version as an album available for audio streaming as well.

[@HalfAstronomical]

wow, just wow...so much coordination....and also quite-groovy.

[@Lanearndt]

Glad the comments are so resoundingly blown away as I am! This is just plainly some of the greatest playing ever captured on A/V. staggering execution, masterful creativity, intensely intense! I love how brad mehldau's stinkface (prince's term for what happens when you're in the pocket just right) NEVER leaves his face! Just! totally! Awesome!

[@skyblue021]

Exceptionally good music and musicians!

[@sebastiangonzalez4458]

Lo de Guiliana como solista y con Avishai Cohen también es alucinante.

[@bill3837]

i love the mixing too. with all that cymbal play

[@loukops]

Those two guys are magicians! This is outstanding!

[@alamooji3716]

He was playing some alien codes or some math!!! Every line was so deep! I loved it, a fender Rhoades is my favorite keyboard sound

[@LTSBDRUMMER]

Oh my god, this is so epic.

[@pearlrumdrum]

I just pulled a muscle in my leg, neck and back bobbing to this so hard.

[@jazzfusioner9840]

I know a good maseuse...and she plays Kenny G :)

[@andreslka]

I really wish this concert would come out as cd.

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

still love it!!

[@marc-oliviermeunier5826]

Magnifique !!!

[@simonskov3776]

Where this kind of virtuosity and music sounds, words become meaningless... just remembering the concert where these two greats took me absolutely out of reality...

[@jmfs3497]

This recording is as compressed as a Fiona Apple vocal track-and I love it.

[@dumena]

Could some drummer out there explain to us mortals: how? How does a drummer keep his, like, 'orientation' within such a piece? At first hand it sounds completely random what he does but I bet he knows exactly what he's doing in every moment - cause this is how this feels. So? How?

[@dumena]

@@SkepastsStudios , wow! Thank you SO much for your reply. Makes fine sense. Great!

[@TapatioDrummer]

Think of it as a conversation ... he isn’t just playing, he is putting all of his being in the moment, paying attention to what Brad its saying, not saying, body movements, etc. You do it all the time with casual conversations, you know what to say or how to behave by the information you are receiving. Hope this helps :)

[@THWJazztastic]

As a musician you subconsciously develop an ear for hearing phrases turn around. Keeping track in anything outside the 4/4 meter is harder, but by thinking of any meter as groupings of 2's and 3's you can break down any time signature. Half of being a good musician is listening, which lets you pick up on musical cues and context for your playing.

[@aaronbones4290]

Freak of nature

[@cluek9780]

Please more video of he/them playing

[@gregoryhussey6477]

That snare drum sound!

[@kosephdrums]

*jaw to the floor*

[@omarp4301]

Wow, I will be pre-ordering this album.

[@antonsenra]

Suena como un nuevo ciclo en la vida. Gracias !!!!!

[@julos71]

i fly on the clouds....marvelous

[@lopo2691]

Magnifique, merci pour le partage de la revue DJAM

[@iwansalim8697]

AWESOME !!!

[@RafaelEMartinez]

stunning!

[@DiegoooTech]

Jeez Rhodes will never die in hands like this. Unbeliavable...

[@ΝίκοςΔημητρίτσης]

awesome project :)

[@bill3837]

that was awesome

[@sixergixer]

I seriously want all of these live tracks available to buy on all the appropriate mp3 storefronts.

[@robdarimartin]

Buenisimo ...

[@hernanrios4590]

me hice adicto a este tema lo estoy escuchando 5 veces al dia, y voy por mas, es Excelente !!

[@fefritschi]

that outro is just INSANE

[@guillermosaar]

Giuliana is the most beautiful thing going today. Extra sucker punch points for looking like an introvert computer science grad student, who proceeds to transform your ass (and expectations) into hurricane of tartar steak.

[@jazzfusioner9840]

Let's not forget Antonio Sanchez in the same "musical" breath....respect to both....

[@milesdavidsmith]

That's Mark Giuliana! :)

[@SweetSpotGuitar]

My new band is gonna be called Hurricane of Tartar Steak

[@lagathy]

Finally...B Mehldau on the Rhodes!!

[@sashablue1971]

What is it?

[@CugnoBrasso]

sasha blue A kind of electric piano that sounds awesome.

[@egyptianminor]

sasha blue The Fender Rhodes Electric piano is the instrument he's playing around 3:30 minutes - became very popular in the late 1960s/early 1970s, one of the instruments that became the trademark of the early original 'Jazz Rock Fusion' bands. It's sound is very unique and mellow/pleasant and it's grown back in popularity since the 1990s, it brings up a 'vintage' sound/timbre/texture into the ensemble, it became quite hip again.

[@generalbenson]

Right? It's like my two favorite things together at last!!

[@lagathy]

sasha blue lol...no idea how you came here Nats

[@varchard]

Just Amazing!! Can't wait for this album!

[@varchard]

7 years later, I still love this album. Sounds as fresh today as 2014

[@robertbarker33]

+++ Yes !!!

[@tanyirop6252]

So intricate

[@marielabercoff8605]

Sublime...