Where Do You Start

Where Do You Start is an album by the Brad Mehldau Trio released on the Nonesuch label in 2012.[1][2]

Where Do You Start
Studio album by
Brad Mehldau Trio
ReleasedSeptember 17, 2012
RecordedNovember 17, 2008 and April 19, 2011
StudioAvatar Studios, New York, NY
GenreJazz
Length78:22
LabelNonesuch
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ProducerBrad Mehldau
Brad Mehldau chronology
Ode
(2008–11)		 Where Do You Start
(2008–11)		 Nearness
(2011)

Reception
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic80/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Guardian[4]
musicOMH[5]
Tom HullA–[6]

The album received generally favourable reviews with Metacritic giving it a score of 80% from 7 reviews.[7] AllMusic awarded the album 3½ stars and in its review by Matt Collar, states "Ultimately, Where Do You Start is an intimate, impressionistic, and probing release that should certainly appeal to longtime fans of Mehldau's nuanced jazz style".[1] The Guardian's John Fordham observed "the dynamics and empathy of this ensemble remain pretty irresistible".[4] On All About Jazz, John Kelman noted "Where Do You Start isn't so much an alternative as it is further evidence—as if any were needed—of this tremendous trio's ability to take any material—old, new, borrowed or original—and make it firmly its own".[8] BBC Music reviewer, Martin Longley commented "Where Do You Start revives the old Mehldau approach of covering songs from across the decades... Yet Mehldau’s method is so dominant that everything gravitates towards the trio’s signature sound, lending cohesion to a variegated crop... It all points to Mehldau entering a new prime phase in his career, both onstage and in the recording studio".[9]

Track listing
  1. "Got Me Wrong" (Jerry Cantrell) - 5:24
  2. "Holland" (Sufjan Stevens) - 8:46
  3. "Brownie Speaks" (Clifford Brown) - 8:13
  4. "Baby Plays Around" (Cait O'Riordan, Elvis Costello) - 10:07
  5. "Airegin" (Sonny Rollins) - 6:23
  6. "Hey Joe" (Billy Roberts) - 6:24
  7. "Samba e Amor" (Chico Buarque) - 9:02
  8. "Jam" (Brad Mehldau) - 5:26
  9. "Time Has Told Me" (Nick Drake) - 8:30
  10. "Aquelas Coisas Todas" (Toninho Horta) - 6:01
  11. "Where Do You Start?" (Marilyn Bergman, Alan Bergman, Johnny Mandel) - 4:06

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References
  1. Collar, Matt. "Brad Mehldau Trio Where Do You Start - Review". Allmusic. Retrieved 2014-02-05.
  2. "Discography of Brad Mehldau". Retrieved 2014-02-05.
  3. "Where Do You Start by Brad Mehldau Trio". Metacritic. metacritic.com. Retrieved 30 January 2017.
  4. Fordham, G., Brad Mehldau Trio: Where Do You Start Review, The Guardian, September 19, 2012
  5. Paton, Daniel (17 September 2012). "Brad Mehldau Trio – Where Do You Start". musicOMH. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  6. "Tom Hull: Grade List: Brad Mehldau". Tom Hull. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
  7. Metacritic summary, accessed February 5, 2014
  8. Kelman, J., All About Jazz Review, September 11, 2012
  9. Longley, M., Brad Mehldau Trio Where Do You Start Review, BBC Music, accessed February 5, 2014
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