Brad Mehldau // Beatrice (Transcription)

Quite an outside solo from Brad Mehldau's 2018 album Seymour Reads The Constitution!. A lot of interesting superimposed harmonies, as well as some nice voicings - especially in the head. I transcribed the head and piano solo, but couldn't leave out one of the trade 8s, where Brad plays some insane harmonies: I just love the voicing in bar 213, like a Gmaj9/Fmaj7 with an Ab (or G#) on top (or Fmaj13#11#15 add#9 I guess).
For analysis of some bits, check out this June Lee video from 2018: • Brad Mehldau things in...
Original: • Beatrice
Score: musescore.com/user/1431431/sc...
0:00 Intro
0:19 Head
0:54 Piano Solo
3:55 Tradings excerpt
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[@d-darkness-within]

Fire. Desire. Lit. Transcriptions lift my life even if I had to sell my piano, one day I'll be back.

[@nicholaslatina4464]

I remember June Lees breakdown of that tradings excerpt, cool to see more context here!

[@Auromaton]

Yes! I rediscovered that video while making this, but intentionally didn't watch it before posting. Turns out I was completely wrong about the lh voicings in the beginning of that part, June Lee's version makes a lot more sense. Oh well