Brad Mehldau and Chris Tile

As with most of Brad Mehldau's performances, he again succeeds to easily meet high expectations here. His duet with Chris Tile is one of its kind and hard to match.


Buddies: Täubchen, Birgit and Jakob
Rating: 5/5
Merch: none
Again: we already have tickets for the trio in spring 2018


This is not the entire setlist, their encores were too many and too various, but gives you a glimpse:
1. The Old Shade Tree
2. Tallahassee Junction
3. Fast As You Can
4. Independence Day
5. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
6. Scarlet Town
7. Dark Turn Of Mind

So even a duet of a piano and a mandolin, along with Chris Tile's vocals, works out, and the auditorium was amazed. For sure, this duet is on the more silent side, but Chris has his moments of (relative) loudness. Of course this can only work out with proper amplification, which I mostly liked. Only the mandoline scrubbing sounded sometimes a bit harsh to me, but that's probably just personal and just fine that way. It was music just made for mid-November, a bit melancholic, but never depressive, and powerful enough to warm your heart. After the fulminant Bach performance another very surprising highlight. It seems to me that Brad Mehldau has an extremely productive and inspired phase as a songwriter.