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Anything Goes is a contemporary jazz album by the Brad Mehldau trio. The title track is Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" arranged for the trio. The album, like many of Mehldau's other albums, contains several jazz arrangements of pop/rock songs, including "Still Crazy After All These Years" by Paul Simon, and "Everything in Its Right Place" by Radiohead.
Reception
Tim Perlich of Now stated, "Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau has never been much of a risk-taker, preferring instead to straddle the thin line that divides the progressively minded traditionalists and the conservative modernists. On the disappointing Anything Goes, Mehldau surrenders to his commercial impulses and adopts the clichéd contemporary pop-jazz album formula." John Fordham of The Guardian wrote, "As before, it's a mix of standards, quirkily personal choices and a Radiohead theme, but Anything Goes is likely to rank very high in the Mehldau trio list." Matt Collar of AllMusic commented, " Anything Goes moves from the expected to the inspired and that alone makes this worth a listen."
Track listing
"Get Happy" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 9:47
"Dreamsville" (Raymond B. Evans, Jay Livingston, Henry Mancini) – 5:03
"Anything Goes" (Cole Porter) – 7:08
"Tres Palabras" (Osvaldo Farrés) – 5:01
"Skippy" (Thelonious Monk) – 5:24
"Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington) – 6:43
"Still Crazy After All These Years" (Paul Simon) – 5:21
"Everything in Its Right Place" (Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood) – 6:55
"Smile" (Charlie Chaplin, Geoff Parsons, James John Turner Phillips) – 6:48
"I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 4:49
Personnel
Brad Mehldau – Piano
Larry Grenadier – Bass
Jorge Rossy – Drums
Credits
Produced by Brad Mehldau and Matt Pierson
Mastered by Greg Calbi
Engineered by James Farber, Steve Mazur, Aya Takemura
Photography by Warren Darius Aftahi
Production Coordination by Dana Watson
References
External links
One Way Magazine article: Brad Mehldau, Anything Goes