Long Ago and Far Away (Charlie Haden and Brad Mehldau album)

Long Ago and Far Away
Long Ago and Far Away
Live album by Charlie Haden, Brad Mehldau
Released	2018
Recorded	November 5, 2007
Venue	Mannheim, Germany
Label	Impulse!
Brad Mehldau chronology

Long Ago and Far Away is a duo album by Charlie Haden and Brad Mehldau. It was recorded in 2007 and released by Impulse! Records in 2018.

Music and recording[]

The music is from a 2007 concert at the Enjoy Jazz Festival in Mannheim, Germany.^[1] The material is standards.^[1] On "Au Privave", after the theme is stated, "a change of key signals a narrative switch to flurries of notes, trills and single note lines. Haden, unhurried, shifts harmonic focus underneath until the theme returns, pulled into fragments that lean back on the beat."^[2]

Release and reception[]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Financial Times	^[2]
Jazzwise	^[3]

The album was released by Impulse! Records in 2018.^[4] The AllMusic reviewer commented on the "casual intensity, and the willingness to commune with yearning lyricism one minute and dive into dark voids the next, that make Mehldau and Haden's duo work here so compelling."^[1]

Track listing[]

"Au Privave"
"My Old Flame"
"What'll I Do"
"Long Ago and Far Away"
"My Love and I"
"Everything Happens to Me"

Personnel[]

Charlie Haden – bass
Brad Mehldau – piano

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Collar, Matt. "Charlie Haden / Brad Mehldau: Long Ago and Far Away". AllMusic. Retrieved November 28, 2018.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Hobart, Mike (October 26, 2018). "Charlie Haden & Brad Mehldau: Long Ago and Far Away – Unhurried and Imaginative". Financial Times.
^ Fordham, John (December 2018). "Review Search". Jazzwise. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
^ Casarotti, Luca (October 22, 2018). "Brad Mehldau / Charlie Haden: Long Ago and Far Away". AllAboutJazz.

[AM-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d Collar, Matt. "Charlie Haden / Brad Mehldau: Long Ago and Far Away". AllMusic. Retrieved November 28, 2018.

[FT-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b Hobart, Mike (October 26, 2018). "Charlie Haden & Brad Mehldau: Long Ago and Far Away – Unhurried and Imaginative". Financial Times.

[JW-3] Fordham, John (December 2018). "Review Search". Jazzwise. Retrieved 26 November 2020.

[4] Casarotti, Luca (October 22, 2018). "Brad Mehldau / Charlie Haden: Long Ago and Far Away". AllAboutJazz.

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