It is beyond question that the wellspring of musicality in Mehldau would suffice for three full careers however, his individual style of play and his personality shine independent of genre and style alongside his eclectic approach. Alongside mainstream jazz he loves working with classical musicians, he runs his fusion jazz-rock duo together with Mark Guiliana and composes contemporary arrangements from Nirvana and Radiohead tracks. The question often arises: “Were you at Mehldau’s concert last year?”, or “When is he coming?” Mehldau’s success is due largely to his phenomenal technique, musicality and huge diversity of interests: he has made recordings of jazz history significance both in classical jazz trio formation and with solo piano. Audiences have enjoyed him playing in solo roles and with orchestra these concerts remain vivid in the memory years later. Over the past 10 years, Brad Mehldau, the contemporary innovator of jazz-piano playing, has starred in Budapest several times.
