Mehldau, Brad | Seymour Reads The Constitution | CD

The Brad Mehldau Trio is the trio of jazz pianist Brad Mehldau, who has recorded and performed extensively since the early 1990s. The trio has worked primarily with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy since 1995, and drummer Jeff Ballard joined in 2005. Between 1996 and 2000 the trio released five records on the Warner Brothers label as The Art of the Trio, and in 2004 it released Anything Goes.

Seymour Reads The Constitution! is a CD album by the Brad Mehldau Trio, released on Nonesuch in 2018, with Mehldau credited as producer. The trio performs three Mehldau originals alongside interpretations of pop songs by Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson, jazz tunes by Elmo Hope and Sam Rivers, and Frederick Loewe's 'Almost Like Being in Love' from the American songbook. The players are Mehldau on piano, Larry Grenadier on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums.

Track List

1. Spiral
2. Seymour Reads the Constitution
3. Almost Like Being in Love
4. De-dah
5. Friends
6. Ten Tune
7. Great Day
8. Beatrice