Pianist and composer Brad Mehldau’s Ride into the Sun is a songbook record of music by the late singer, songwriter, and guitarist Elliott Smith. you can get it on vinyl and hear it here. Featured musicians include singer/guitarist Daniel Rossen (Grizzly Bear); singer/mandolinist Chris Thile (Punch Brothers, Nickel Creek); bassists Felix Moseholm (Brad Mehldau Trio, Samara Joy) and John Davis (who also engineered and mixed the album); drummer Matt Chamberlain (Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Randy Newman); and a chamber orchestra led by Dan Coleman.
Ride into the Sun’s ten Elliott Smith songs are complemented by four Mehldau compositions that he says are “inspired by, and reflect, Smith’s oeuvre.” Also included are interpretations of Big Star’s “Thirteen,” which Smith also covered, and “Sunday” by Nick Drake, who Mehldau says, “I look at in some ways as sort of Smith’s visionary grandfather.”
“Widely considered one of the greatest living jazz pianists," Uncut says of Mehldau in its four-star review of Ride into the Sun, "a stunning collection of songs written or inspired by Elliott Smith. Much of the album feels like it’s throwing open the windows on his music, bringing fresh light to a songwriter too often painted as a tragic figure.”
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