Brad's interpretation of this Beatle's tune is uncanny. He swings and gets bluesy as well. Brad truly makes this song his own. He played this as his last song before the encore at the MIM in Phoenix, Az. on 03/28/24. What a performer to see live!
I wonder if anyone's asked Sir Paul about jazz versions of his songbook, especially "Blackbird" that recently got some phenomenal piano jazz interpretations from Hiromi, Jon Batiste, and Brad Mehldau's fantastic 10 Years Solo Live recording. I recall McCartney saying nice things about Stevie Wonder's ultra-funky "We Can Work It Out."
Outstanding version of a stirring song. For me, it's like being carried by a current which traverses a line between love, the transience of moments, and the knowledge that we only really visit eachother.
Mesmerizing. Tranquil. Exhilarating. Uplifting. Stirring. Transporting. A meditation. Thank you. (Rick Beato podcast is how I first heard of you. Grateful)
God, you are just so brilliant. You are my favorite pianist of all time. Your music somehow just seems to be the answer to all things. Thank you for sharing your talents with us all.
Really?! Wow. I've heard the name... so when YT recommended, I said yeah I should listen to who this is. Now I'll head down a brief rabbit hole, it being late.
Oh, now I see this will take longer than i have tonight. Who knows where I'll begin. Thanks for the recommendation RUclips, and whoever wrote this comment
@@skierpage okay, I will... I've listened to quite a few of his live and studio recordings since this comment... starting for a couple hours right after that, when I was supposed to be sleeping🤭
Golden Slumbers / Lyrics Once there was a way To get back homeward Once there was a way To get back home Sleep, pretty darling Do not cry And I will sing a lullaby Golden slumbers fill your eyes Smiles awake you when you rise Sleep, pretty darling Do not cry And I will sing a lullaby Once there was a way To get back homeward Once there was a way To get back home Sleep, pretty darling Do not cry And I will sing a lullaby Songwriters: Paul Mccartney / John Lennon
the way you bring out the melody and legato phrasing is inscredible. 2.8k likes? Booo, dissapointing poeople. It doesn't reflect well on all ya'll. What you are witnessing here is rare, show some #($* #$*$# respect plz
Não conhecia esse canal. Procurando versões dessa música em piano deparei com seu vídeo. Fiquei muito impressionado! Maravilhosa a inversão do início, com melodia tocada na mão esquerda... Parabéns pelo belo trabalho! Passa ganhou um fã!
Beautiful interpretation. And the only way he could have taken the fade-out ending any further was to blow up the piano! But he's too respectful than that, as am I of him. Encore.
Didn't come here to say "The best version I have ever heard" or "Paul McCartney would be loving this". But yes, very nice, clever piano playing. All very creative and skilful. But I have always found all pared-down versions of vocalised songs, originally by a band of 2, 3, 4, 5 different musos on their range of instruments, to be "deficient" and far inferior to the original. Vocals are what make a song a song. The brilliance of the poetry, the intellectual and emotional meaning of the lyrics, the tone of the voice, all in comibation with the melody is the primary root of and song. It is missing in all instrumental versions. But I'll bet 99% of listeners are thinking the words through -- maybe even singing them out loud -- as they listen to this tinkling, ostentatious nonsense. A rythym and lead guitar add far more substance than some quirky augmented and diminished black and white keys. A bass guitar, being the lowest note in each chord, adds much more than a left hand little finger ever can. And percussion, in its range of drums and symbols, is completely absent from any imitative piano piece. All over, this is nice if you like elevator music to fall asleep to and for hum-along pop classics. But I find it (and all solo jazz piano copies) an insult to the original, and just popular wanky self-indulgence. The last album I would ever buy is 10-20 tracks of one man on a piano with no voice wrecking classic, anthemic songs which just don't need covering or improvisational improvement.
Brad's interpretation of this Beatle's tune is uncanny. He swings and gets bluesy as well. Brad truly makes this song his own. He played this as his last song before the encore at the MIM in Phoenix, Az. on 03/28/24. What a performer to see live!
Thank you, Brad Mehldau, for unfolding what words cannot.
All in this version is so musical and sensitive, Paul McCartney, another music genius, must be delighted !
I wonder if anyone's asked Sir Paul about jazz versions of his songbook, especially "Blackbird" that recently got some phenomenal piano jazz interpretations from Hiromi, Jon Batiste, and Brad Mehldau's fantastic 10 Years Solo Live recording. I recall McCartney saying nice things about Stevie Wonder's ultra-funky "We Can Work It Out."
Maravillosa música e interpretación 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤@@skierpage
Incredibly Beautiful! Your piano playing has saved and changed my life in so many ways. Thank you and God Bless You Brad 🙌🏼
Masterful dynamic control
Expressively and gently vibrant, or something like that. 3:33
Outstanding version of a stirring song. For me, it's like being carried by a current which traverses a line between love, the transience of moments, and the knowledge that we only really visit eachother.
La canzone che amo di più dei Beatles. Questa versione è magnifica!
The slumbering lily here most gloriously gilded 💖🎶 Just beautiful!
Mesmerizing. Tranquil. Exhilarating. Uplifting. Stirring. Transporting. A meditation. Thank you. (Rick Beato podcast is how I first heard of you. Grateful)
Utterly sublime. So emotive and inspired. Buying this album tomorrow!!!!
I love this man. Such a great performance and sound.
Deep and Special. Thank you !!!!
Beautiful performance 🎹
Beautiful!
❤❤❤❤❤what feeling. I hope brad mehldau plays music forever hes so amazing and gifted like an angel
muy potente.... emoción inteligente...que trabajo¡¡
It was Blackbird that got me listening to Brad and to my surprise he also cover other bands I really like…his Rush and Radiohead cover are great.
Great version
Brad just makes everything better
God, you are just so brilliant. You are my favorite pianist of all time. Your music somehow just seems to be the answer to all things. Thank you for sharing your talents with us all.
amen Anthony
Really?! Wow. I've heard the name... so when YT recommended, I said yeah I should listen to who this is. Now I'll head down a brief rabbit hole, it being late.
Oh, now I see this will take longer than i have tonight. Who knows where I'll begin. Thanks for the recommendation RUclips, and whoever wrote this comment
@@GizzyDillespee check out Brad Mehldau's recordings of "Blackbird," culminating in his fantastic 10 Years Solo Live version!
@@skierpage okay, I will... I've listened to quite a few of his live and studio recordings since this comment... starting for a couple hours right after that, when I was supposed to be sleeping🤭
Golden Slumbers
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Lyrics
Once there was a way
To get back homeward
Once there was a way
To get back home
Sleep, pretty darling
Do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby
Golden slumbers fill your eyes
Smiles awake you when you rise
Sleep, pretty darling
Do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby
Once there was a way
To get back homeward
Once there was a way
To get back home
Sleep, pretty darling
Do not cry
And I will sing a lullaby
Songwriters: Paul Mccartney / John Lennon
These lyrics are a nursery rhyme by Mother Goose. I love when lyricists do that, use nursery rhymes. Tom Waits does it a lot too.
All I can say is awesome. Oh yeah, and so beautiful. What a duo, McCartney and Mehldau.
今日の朝起きてすぐにこの演奏を聴く事が出来ました。
今回のアルバムで、ビートルズの曲の美しさを発見する事が出来ました。 ブラッドメルドーは私にとってあらゆる意味で師匠だと思っております。 動画を挙げて頂き感謝致します。
You're the best Brad.
God bless you
so effortless
Masterful Transcription by a true jazz artist. the piano never sounded better on a Beatles song! 😊
Try Vince Guaraldi's version of I'm a Loser. He transforms it into delicious wistfulness, nostalgia and regret.
Superb...
Wonderful music. Warm, deep & tasty.
Beautiful ! Thank you 🎉
Juste sublime ❤❤❤
Beautiful. Thank you.🙏🙏🙏❤️
I wish could be the fly behind him at 00:37 😁
So beautiful! Great, great instrumental version!
Sublime.
I’m crying with joy…but I want Paul.
Mcartney GENIUS!!!!!!!
Very moving,contemplative,thank you....
Pure joy
Lovely... ☝️😎
I aspire to play like you play. I may borrow from you treatment of Blackbird, though with a different drone, perhaps.
Hermoso !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The passage of time Ìs visible to me.
There Ìs time when I can see eternity.
I am a wanderer through time
sweet
the way you bring out the melody and legato phrasing is inscredible. 2.8k likes? Booo, dissapointing poeople. It doesn't reflect well on all ya'll. What you are witnessing here is rare, show some #($* #$*$# respect plz
❤❤❤
God bless you, Brad
Não conhecia esse canal. Procurando versões dessa música em piano deparei com seu vídeo. Fiquei muito impressionado! Maravilhosa a inversão do início, com melodia tocada na mão esquerda... Parabéns pelo belo trabalho! Passa ganhou um fã!
Bravo. :))
Beautiful interpretation. And the only way he could have taken the fade-out ending any further was to blow up the piano! But he's too respectful than that, as am I of him. Encore.
Bella
こないだいずみホールで聴いた演奏を思い出します！
🎉❤
Génial
❤
Consistently beautiful over the years. Like the son of Keith Jarret and Ryūichi Sakamoto.
that was a cool comparison...
@@ruiresende84 Thanks for mention it. ^_^
I hear a lot of voicings and rhythmic structures eerily similar to Keith Jarrett's "Lalene."
Coincidence? I sang this very same medley ("Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End") at karaoke just last night. I kid you not.
Obviously in the spirit of Keith Jarrett, updated like you hope for. ❤️😎
A sensitive rendition , true to the original theme - with ? some Oscar Peterson influences . Thanks , very relaxing .
Once there was a way to get back home....
Mcartney is unique!!!!!
😎
Boy you really carried that weight!
Me recuerda a Keith jarrett
Genius
La bellezza ha bisogno della bruttezza per affermarsi!!!
Même si cela n'a plus grand chose à voir avec les Beatles, ce n'en est pas moins beau pour autan !
beautiful playing.. and slightly sad that Brad Mehldau looks like an old man ㅜ.ㅜ
who cares? He's young at heart
Golden showers in your eyes
Didn't come here to say "The best version I have ever heard" or "Paul McCartney would be loving this".
But yes, very nice, clever piano playing. All very creative and skilful.
But I have always found all pared-down versions of vocalised songs, originally by a band of 2, 3, 4, 5 different musos on their range of instruments, to be "deficient" and far inferior to the original.
Vocals are what make a song a song. The brilliance of the poetry, the intellectual and emotional meaning of the lyrics, the tone of the voice, all in comibation with the melody is the primary root of and song. It is missing in all instrumental versions. But I'll bet 99% of listeners are thinking the words through -- maybe even singing them out loud -- as they listen to this tinkling, ostentatious nonsense.
A rythym and lead guitar add far more substance than some quirky augmented and diminished black and white keys.
A bass guitar, being the lowest note in each chord, adds much more than a left hand little finger ever can.
And percussion, in its range of drums and symbols, is completely absent from any imitative piano piece.
All over, this is nice if you like elevator music to fall asleep to and for hum-along pop classics. But I find it (and all solo jazz piano copies) an insult to the original, and just popular wanky self-indulgence. The last album I would ever buy is 10-20 tracks of one man on a piano with no voice wrecking classic, anthemic songs which just don't need covering or improvisational improvement.
Sogni d'oro. Dolce melodia .