Mehliana (Brad Mehldau & Mark Guiliana) - Sleeping Giant (Live)

[@famousbowen7512]

This music is probably 10yrs old or more. It's still fresh... Love the inner perspective..

[@michaelcorenzwit716]

Brad just keeps on evolving and growing in his musical art. First Highway Rider, this and now Finding Gabriel. Keep up your journey and I will marvel at your creative genius.

[@bartuce6806]

mark gulliana is so amazing hes always doing actual improvisation not things that he practiced before knows when to play and when not to and listens very well one of my favorite musicians

[@6ixtymiles]

Mark Guiliana... on the skeletal groove resistance; and killing it. ...as Brad washes and flows.

[@nngemini13]

Mehliana ... musicians creating/opening new neural pathways to experience deeper authentic expressions to explore our inner landscape ... love this collaboration, simply brilliant.

[@braaaaaains]

those punchy stuttered drums over those ethereal keys. oh man. so good.

[@nonesuchrecords]

Brad Mehldau & Mark Guiliana's electric duo debut album, Mehliana: Taming the Dragon, is out now on Nonesuch Records. Jazzwise calls it "astonishing ... one of the best albums of 2014." CD/LP/MP3/FLAC: www.nonesuch.com/albums/mehliana-taming-the-dragon (vinyl due March 18) iTunes: smarturl.it/mehlianaitunes

[@technophobiakills4371]

I can't stop listening - it's amazing.

[@marcomioli1124]

Semplicemente fantastico

[@michallysek6996]

I sooo love this. Beautiful.

[@egyptianminor]

A+, thought-provoking music.

[@patrickmazie2053]

Leurs albums est👍👍👍👍

[@jeremymatho3593]

its so beautifull

[@Super20011988]

Cosmic. Thanks Brad!!

[@venom07786]

The definition of tasteful.

[@JakeSharpProfoundStudio]

Brad Mehldau is a genius.

[@ВеликийМудрец-д6р]

Yes, he is.

[@jeremymatho3593]

c un homme qui maitrise son art hajhaha quel plaisir de l'écouter et i had the chance to ear him in the arena of vienne in my country... is he a genious? may b when there is so rarely a so good sound in ears today

[@jeremymatho3593]

ca me fait penser un peu à weather report et jaco pastorius

[@jeremymatho3593]

DR DRE

[@PilferMusic]

@@jeremymatho3593 Fish and Chips

[@ninovasev]

bravio every tone and improvisations is so natural...from t he deepest part..yes

[@jeremymatho3593]

ty u so much for those sounds and rytms and love for manu di bango!

[@apusista]

Yes, sheer genius... made the transition from jazz piano to electronic fusion with ease. This song makes my hair stand on end 😳🎶

[@adrianasmarques]

Wow! Fabulous!!!!

[@coolcat24s]

music for brain bravo :)

[@jeremymatho3593]

its so good manu

[@denisk1981]

Wow. So unexpected! Enjoyed every tune on this album.

[@nonesuchrecords]

Happy birthday, Brad Mehldau! Tune in to Geoffrey Smith's Jazz show on BBC Radio 3 tonight for a special edition focused on Brad. #bradmehldau

[@generalbenson1597]

Nonesuch Records Is there anywhere to purchase this concert on DVD? Have the album, love it. These videos are great, I would love to be able to watch this whole concert.

[@MarkoMaric94]

Simply brilliant!!

[@lordvipul]

The ending is beautiful!!

[@davidperry3257]

A dream sequence soundtrack

[@Gedsparrow81]

Just beautiful.

[@cabetojazz]

Best Improvised Jazz Solo nominado 2015

[@michaelcorenzwit716]

This is the sound of the universe.

[@MrRjozefiak]

That was so awesome.

[@Scarecrow6459]

Are there any more videos from this show? The three I have found are just fantastic and I'd even be willing to pay money for like a Blu Ray of it or something

[@veraluciapintorios5740]

Sensacional ♥️

[@hernanrios4590]

Terriblemente genial !

[@michaelhayes690]

Nice. Original. Innovative. Thanks.

[@dagostinoification]

Superbe !

[@launderground]

we love mehliana.

[@ChristineGPadua]

Fabulous!

[@JamesStaubes]

That DSI Prophet sounds amazing!!!

[@ChrisDragotta]

James Staubes It's a Dave Smith Evolver.

[@jeremymatho3593]

il faut écouter ce mec

[@carlosreboucas3262]

Progressions!! Some guys understand that!!

[@113036stat]

Si!!

[@Testament2222]

Has anyone got a clue as to the chord progression used here? It's mesmerising!

[@davidricart1395]

if the first chord is tonic then the second is III, I'm like 85% certain

[@UkuleleAversion]

Here are the chords: Emaj Cmaj7 Db7#9 Fmaj7sus2/Eb Abmaj9 Cmaj7add6

[@thedarkmoonman]

8:54 Best ring tone ever...

[@derrickforeal]

I made a ring tone almost 98% same

[@gregheintz3994]

Are you going to release these videos as a DVD?

[@WhispersOfRuins]

Haha DVD, I remember those.

[@erobinidcf]

Great for the 20 Ft projection on my screen! Dont knock DVD for quality music sound either

[@thelearningcenter]

Very good question...blue ray 5.1 would be incredible

[@MrAstrid1989]

Looking forwart to Gent Jazz !

[@pascalmortiermoreisinu6944]

Eigenzinnige en rustgevende muziek. Maar enkel voor een beperkt publiek. Een opzwellen naar een climax, en dan terug naar af enz. en een zweverige stem erbovenop (cfr Pink F.) zouden al een pluspunt zijn.

[@maxsergeant7148]

Pascal Mortier a voice would ruïn this piece of art. This is ment to be without a voice

[@tiluriso]

Cool. Herbie Hancock has a tune of the same name on his 1972 LP 'Crossings'. This seems like it's something else entirely. But not totally unlike Mwandishi, as HH's group of the era was known as.

[@Mj-kl3rb]

7:59 till the end. Is that beautiful or what?

[@KrisVesel]

Please, please more albums in this vein, but without the spoken word (which gets annoying if you listen amazing music like this repeatedly).

[@dr05guitar]

how easy is it to get those sounds that Brad is getting on his synth? Does he manipulate the patches himself you think or are these like default settings? Just wondering if anybody who plays one of those can get those sounds or if you gotta like tweak it, I'm sure he has... anyway sounds awesome

[@williamwinslow6582]

With those old syths, you can build the sounds up as you play them and tweek them in real time. By the early 80's you could easily save patches, but you would often use those as starting points. Some of those patches you'd create would have long sweeps of sound and long envelopes so the sounds would naturally change as you held them. It is a nice way to acquaint yourselves with the elements of sound synthesis to play with one of these. You lean a lot.

[@dr05guitar]

sounds like fun!

[@Hendrix4004]

It's a Prophet 08 and a Moog Little Phatty, which are pretty new (late 2000's). I own the Moog and the sounds are not hard to program, and it saves up to 100 patches. I'd say he gets the sounds he likes but he doesn't play very much with the modulation and tweaking possibilities (he does a bit of this on the Prophet before going to the piano). They might only be initial patches manipulated, and they are quite easy to recreate.

[@cozmovox]

These are analog synths. The fun thing about it is that they're fairly easy to program and you can create sounds WHILE improvising.....in the seventies they had no preset memory, so the synth had to be tweaked realtime. Analog synths revive these days because we found out they are real organic sounding musical instruments. In the seventies and eighties they were kind of "misused" for replacing expensive orchestra's. Now they are used again to dive into the unknown looking for new sounds and ways to create music as intended by founding father Bob Moog.

[@BadSneakers]

There's some major Kruder and Dorfmeister here. Forking awesome

[@Lanearndt]

I find it a little more Minor myself!

[@auroradarienzo]

[@mikez1591]

Where have these guys been?

[@lukeknopp4267]

playing jazz for 20+ years where have you been

[@gabrieljoseph7580]

Luke Knopp 20 + years? Guiliana's first studio recording was in 2003.

[@tomb5219]

Mark was born in 1980 & Brad in 1970.

[@benjaminkenobi21]

I bought this album on vinyl, almost entirely due to the appeal of this video, and also the videos for Hungry Ghost and Just Call Me Nige (also on KZbin.) I can honestly report that these tracks, as they manifest on the actual record, do not have the same appeal as what is heard in these KZbin videos. Granted, these are live cuts, and are naturally going to be different... but the musical phrasing and overall performances in these versions are definitely better and more rich than on the record. With that said, this is a great release, and you should get it. There are 2 or 3 tracks on it that are absolute duds in my opinion, one being the title track (with the spoken word stuff... totally irrelevant and has no place.. and is annoying since you just have to place the needle on the next track immediately after starting it.) The rest of the compositions, for the most part, are musically rich and have good melody. You'll hear some intelligent synth playing (GREAT Rhodes parts in there) and deft drumming on this album. The vinyl release has really great sound quality even on my meager turntable.

[@grobertsonsax]

100% agree with everything you said. It seems like maybe they rushed to the studio to quickly before getting to know each other's playing better. Plus, a few tunes are total duds, as you say. But when they're good, man are they good. Saw them last week in Paris and was absolutely floored with the performance, especially Hungry Ghost. Excited to see if he continues to go in the direction of electric stuff, whether with this duo or a more full ensemble.

[@Lanearndt]

I've said the same thing often and loud! It's not to me so much that these performances are better as much as they just SOUND better. This to me is one of the most beautiful live recordings I've ever heard. The official release is overly compressed, leading to it's rather lifeless sounding mix. The ultimate caveat though is that it's still a great album!

[@robinpayneguitar]

how on earth is the spoken word stuff irrelevant? the album is called "taming the dragon". the first track features mehldau explaining in detail where the title came from, and all the other spoken word stuff on the album relates to that. So it is kind of totally 100% relevant from an objective standpoint....personally I thought it was awesome...it's kind of a concept album about dreams and self realization and evolution of creativity and yada yada. it wouldn't be the same without all that awesome dream jargon now would it

[@benjaminkenobi21]

Robin Payne Actually, it would be better without the dream jargon. Concept album... I'll buy that. That's fine if that's what the artist wanted to make. But I'm not the only one who thinks the spoken parts are total fluff. The record would be completely as good without the entire first track altogether. As a matter of fact, the musical parts in that track are even bad when you listen to how well composed the remainder of the album is. Not sure if you're really a jazz guy, or a music guy at all for that matter, but those wordy parts are just stupid, and Mehldau sounds like a complete dunce when he's saying it. People come to this album and expect the astronomical quality of progressive jazz they're always gotten from Mehldau on other efforts. They get that, but they get that bit of fluff too, unfortunately. Utterly unnecessary crap on an otherwise really interesting and listenable contemporary jazz record. I think I recognize your name and pic... you're that jackass that ripped on those live Pat Metheny recordings on here and got your ass reamed by everyone for it, no? Was that you? If not I do apologize, but you sure look like him.

[@Lanearndt]

Ben Pryor​ I, for one, thought the narrative was pretty cool of him to both write and recite! Way to push boundaries!

[@premanando2619]

I sense the spirit of Miles visiting :-) ..........

[@0i0l0o]

Setting fire to _ 's

[@joshuamrosenau]

Is "taming the dragon" meant to be a play on "chasing the dragon" - in addition to this metaphor for the music of dreams?

[@amarok5048]

+Joshua M Rosenau No, it's closer to the Buddhist concept of the Three Fires, otherwise known as the Three Poisons. Namely Anger, Desire and Ignorance, although here they are partially addressed. Nevertheless, a fine philosophical narrative.

[@jandeboer426]

Improvisationjazzlounge? Whatever. Cool music.

[@IzzySavides]

This confused me because I thought there was a vamp at the beginning but then the whole thing was a vamp lmao

[@paulbyrnesrmt2929]

Sounds like 4 astronauts playing here, but it's really 2

[@jeremymatho3593]

manu is dead but is alive in jazz and he wants music to go o n

[@Water_meter_enthusiast]

This has Bob James written all over it.

[@Water_meter_enthusiast]

I guess.

[@ThePakio666]

I think im on lsd

[@jeremymatho3593]

madu dibango is dead u can have a respect

[@kefig11]

nice but highly overrated...