{"id":67405,"date":"2025-08-08T16:48:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T23:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=67405"},"modified":"2025-08-12T10:12:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T17:12:26","slug":"christian-mcbride-brad-mehldau","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/event\/christian-mcbride-brad-mehldau\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian McBride & Brad Mehldau"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christian McBride<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Brad Mehldau<\/a>\u2014two titans of modern jazz, unparalleled performers on bass and piano, unite for a rare duo performance.<\/p>\n

Christian McBride says, \u201cBrad is justifiably revered as one of the greatest pianists of all time. I\u2019m very proud to have been friends and cohorts with him for almost 35 years. He was one of the first people I met when I moved to NYC in 1989, and it continues to be an uplifting experience every time we play together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brad Mehldau says, \u201cIt is a dream come true to play with Christian in this duo setting. Playing with Christian, especially in this configuration, is both joyful and daunting all at once. His level of sophistication and swing, of emotional power and grace, is unsurpassed in the least on what he has achieved on his instrument, but also as one of our strongest voices in the music more generally, at the top of his game. I\u2019m so honored to be on stage with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

This longtime friendship and musical camaraderie have led to various collaborations through the years, including the albums\u00a0MoodSwing<\/em><\/a> (1994), (2020), and LongGone<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>(2023) with Joshua Redman and Brian Blade; trio tour dates with drummer Marcus Gilmore; and a recent duo performance at the Big Ears Festival that had the crowd utterly captivated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christian McBride<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Brad Mehldau<\/a>\u2014two titans of modern jazz, unparalleled performers on bass and piano, unite for a rare duo performance.<\/p>\n

Christian McBride says, \u201cBrad is justifiably revered as one of the greatest pianists of all time. I\u2019m very proud to have been friends and cohorts with him for almost 35 years. He was one of the first people I met when I moved to NYC in 1989, and it continues to be an uplifting experience every time we play together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brad Mehldau says, \u201cIt is a dream come true to play with Christian in this duo setting. Playing with Christian, especially in this configuration, is both joyful and daunting all at once. His level of sophistication and swing, of emotional power and grace, is unsurpassed in the least on what he has achieved on his instrument, but also as one of our strongest voices in the music more generally, at the top of his game. I\u2019m so honored to be on stage with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

This longtime friendship and musical camaraderie have led to various collaborations through the years, including the albums\u00a0MoodSwing<\/em><\/a> (1994), (2020), and LongGone<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>(2023) with Joshua Redman and Brian Blade; trio tour dates with drummer Marcus Gilmore; and a recent duo performance at the Big Ears Festival that had the crowd utterly captivated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":67406,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[57],"class_list":["post-67405","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-rental-partner-events","cat_rental-partner-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/67405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/67405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67405"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=67405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}