Brad Mehldau Trio - Black Hole Sun 1of3

[mileswarm]

i´m glad for this jazz version of rock tune ... thank you , once again

[achonies]

the most retarded comment always get voted up.

[curiousnomad]

Brad takes this from Seattle and turns it into Gershwin! Beautiful.

[BKops62]

I hated this song until I heard the Brad Mehldau Trio play it. So good! His use of harmony is amazing!

[4099aj]

The Trio wow, great sounds,,,larry you rock ,jeff, Brad....wow ,wow

[4099aj]

The Trio are wonderful..they bring good sounds I Love it <3

[Cocknajo]

OooooooH ! How much I love youuuu

[gingerbean2k7]

wow Chris cornell on double bass!!

[teddypantelas]

@gingerbean2k7 It's Larry Grenadier on Bass.

[BELL12366]

anybody else kinda miss a singing in their tunes?

[Lifesucksdie123]

amazing cover.

[Antiks72]

The only thing we need is a smoke-filled bar and a sultry female voice.

[TeamDarwin1809]

After the Peter Frampton tribute to this song, I had to search other people covering Black Hole Sun..............Paul Anka too? LOL.............but Brad's version here is great.

[KurtIngvarB]

No - chaplan76 - the two greatest pianist of modern jazz; Evans and Mehldau are not comparable at all. Why should Evans copy Mehldau if he was alive today? Do not understand how you are thinking.

[chaplan76]

This shit is slicker than snot on a door knob. I wonder if Bill Evans would play like this if he were alive today?

[MrAtotheG]

Man what a great version. Does anyone know the chords Mehldau uses?

[leoray1234]

I don't have a piano or guitar with me to figure it out, but just listening to it, I hear that he changes the chord progressions from the first 8 to the second 8, using the more standard 'jazz' progression on the 2nd time. By standard I mean going 2-5 to the 4th chord and such. I think he stays pretty true to the original rock chords on the first time through. What do you think?

[GuyKornowski]

@MrAtotheG When it comes to complex jazz chords, the order of the notes is very important. Usualy what Mehldau does is he takes the tension notes (9th,11th,13th) and plays them in thirds or fourths from the chord tones. Many times he omits the 5th, and prefers a 7th or a 6th instead.

[grooveman84]

Que bien se ha de sentir Chris Cornell de que estos mounstros del jazz hayan versionado una de sus canciones.

[RobertoHMV]

Y déjate de lo bien que se ha de sentir Cornell... qué manera de resolver el tema al final con ese bebop fenomenal. Lástina que esta no es la versión completa. No obstante, magnífico fragmento.

[magbin22]

They have added a new harmonic dimension to this song... and it sounds awesome!!!!!!!!!

[ebutuoybdr]

the popular tune - grunge, broadway, hiphop, whatever - is a the compromise between listener and improviser. pop tunes are wired into everyone's brains. they serve as a connective thread allowing the musicians to stretch. this tradition has to evolve and include new tunes

[Djangoblackbird]

@ebutuoybdr

Man, Youtube comments like that are few and far between. Hats off.

[Lisztlovers]

Very good'

[JustinHSabaj]

brad! you are my favorite!

[chargeboy]

this is a fucking awesome idea and what a great job

[krkgak]

I love the idea, but I'm not really hearing Black Hole Sun... When I heard their version of Wonderwall, that I could recognize. Anymore Cornell covers?

[wakajawakka]

he's playing the melody right from the very beginning...this is black hole sun all the way. listen harder

[nikodemaz38]

-He he he hello...Black Hole Sun..

--over? ;)

[iplaytehbasspipes]

the point isn't to sound exactly like soundgarden. the point is for brad mehldau to make fucking amazing music using a soundgarden song. Regardless he's playing the melody from the very start and it's easy to hear.

[leoray1234]

Brad is definitely paying homage to the song while doing his own amazing thing with it. You can tell he respects the original, but not a slave to it.

[weskoki]

Jesus chist pose next! (:

[dr05guitar]

wow, i'm a big fan of cornell and the original version, but this is awesome too

[DJPsionix]

Well, if I had never heard Black Hole Sun, I'd still dig this. Sometimes it's just fine... or maybe necessary... for jazz to draw inspiration from other places, from grunge even, just like it has done at every step along its history. Right? :]

[Robledoruidoso]

i believe that it's very important that musicians also play tunes that appeal to a wider audience. That gives the general public a pathway to discovering and appreciating other types of music.

[Sandemose]

Excatly, why not leave the whole spectrum available? I discovered jazz via Pat Methenys music (Still life talking). That was a perfect pathway to the genre (and subgenres). So I always thank Pat for that, and I guess Brad will have some people thanking him for introducing them to either jazz, the piano as an instrument or improvisation as such. Best, Sandemose

[iplaytehbasspipes]

yeah but i don't feel that was why brad played this. i think he just liked the song.

[Robledoruidoso]

i agree that he probably just liked the song and didn't think of this but his playing of this opens up that path anyways

[bestestrecords]

F*cking awesome!

[butfacemanface990]

1:03 to 1:25 ..... so amazing!

[solord]

Weird . . . . Absolutely . . . weird. And I love rock, I love Jazz and I love fusion. but this rendition is just weird for me. Do not get me wrong: It's actually really good: I think this type of cover just threw me: I never expected to hear someone (especially the great Brad Mehldau) would even THINK of performing a jazz version of Black Hole Sun.

This one's going to take a little getting used to. Very Interesting. . .

[bootzilla3000]

I don;t know man, I don't even think fusion with this stuff. It's just jaw dropping amazing to me.

[solord]

I understand what you're saying Bootzilla3000: And you are right: This isn't a fusion piece at all: It's just Brad Mehldau's trio jazz interpretation of a grunge/metal classic. I used the term "fusion" to describe the way he used used such a hard rock song and turned into a cool, lounge-y jazz tune. It that sense, I thought he sort of did a reverse fusion process with the song. That's why this cover is so strange & different to me. But you're right: it's not fusion jazz piece. My bad.

[carlesbass]

Well if there's someone to do it, it had to be Brad Mehldau, who has already played covers of pop and rock songs since his first albums (radiohead, beatles). And I really love it when he does.

[solord]

Yes, he sure does have a track record of doing this and rather well. Yet I do find this interpretation quite audacious. It's not bad at all, in fact it's quite good: It's just going to take a little time for me to get used to.

[ignarukih]

You'd find the Bad Plus very disconcerting then... But you might like them. They do similar deconstructions of pop music, but in a zanier, more irreverent kind of vein.

[solord]

Hey, thanks Ignarukih: I'll definitely check that out.

[losghost]

I think it's the risks and experimentation outcomes that makes this guy brilliant. I just discovered this tonight. I'd rank him up there with Angelo Badalamenti and Jeff Jarvis.

[maddymud]

so often these kinds of genre bending things go down the toilet of good intentions -- but Mehldau has the Midas touch for pulling it off ...

[thelonerangers101]

this is amazing

[ShuguProductions]

is this on iTunes?

[Thatguy301]

This DEFINES the term "fusion jazz"! I love the song to begin with but I never noticed how very jazz like the chords progression sounded until it was slowed down and played clean. This is musical innovation at its best.

[kingkrimz]

This is f'n amazing.

[jjbass30]

Larry solo is incredible

[Sean2112bd]

Chris Cornell would be proud

[warblingdave]

Larry is sporting a fine Jarrett 'stache

[glorifiedg79]

Wow!!! Amazing. I also love jazz and rock, my two equally favorite genre. To see this is amazing!

[fmocoroa]

so honest...so simple...great song by chris, awesome interpretation by brad. tankz.

[Convisis]

If you listen to the harmony in this song, it's such an obvious and excellent choice for Brad to cover BHS. Great artist.

[NJlo]

Dude, I love jazz and rock and this is one of the very most awesome songs out there in 90's grunge.. Mehldau for president!