Consenting Adults (album) explained

Consenting Adults
Type:studio
Cover:Consenting Adults 1177.jpg
Released:2000
Recorded:December 26, 1994
Studio:New York City, New York
Genre:Jazz
Length:65:03
Label:Criss Cross
Producer:Gerry Teekens
Chronology:Brad Mehldau
Year:1994
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Consenting Adults is an album by MTB, a quintet consisting of Brad Mehldau (piano), Mark Turner (tenor sax), Peter Bernstein (guitar), Larry Grenadier (bass), and Leon Parker (drums).

Music and recording

The album was recorded in New York City on December 26, 1994.[1] The first track, "Belief", "starts out with some Charleston off beats before leading into a Messengers-type shuffle."

The album was released in 2000.[2] Mehldau commented that "it captured all of us when we were right at the beginning of developing our own voices."[3] All members of the quintet went on to be successful jazz musicians.

Track listing

  1. "Belief" (Leon Parker) – 6:50
  2. "Little Melonae I" (Jackie McLean) – 7:15
  3. "Phantasm" (Peter Bernstein) – 9:39
  4. "Afterglow" (Bernstein) – 5:49
  5. "Limbo" (Wayne Shorter) – 7:28
  6. "Consenting Adults" (Brad Mehldau) – 9:07
  7. "From This Moment On" (Cole Porter) – 6:09
  8. "Peace" (Horace Silver) – 5:59
  9. "Little Melonae II" (McLean) – 6:43

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. http://www.crisscrossjazz.com/album/1177.html "M.T.B.: Consenting Adults"
  2. Hovan, C. Andrew (June 1, 2000) "M.T.B.: Consenting Adults". AllAboutJazz.
  3. Parker, Chris (January 20, 2012) "Consenting Adults". BBC Music Magazine.