''Anything Goes'' is a contemporary jazz album by the Brad Mehldau trio. The title track is

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's "Anything Goes" arranged for the trio. The album, like many of Mehldau's other albums, contains several jazz arrangements of pop/rock songs, including "Still Crazy After All These Years" by

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, and "Everything in Its Right Place" by

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Reception

Tim Perlich of '' Now'' stated, "Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau has never been much of a risk-taker, preferring instead to straddle the thin line that divides the progressively minded traditionalists and the conservative modernists. On the disappointing Anything Goes, Mehldau surrenders to his commercial impulses and adopts the clichéd contemporary pop-jazz album formula." John Fordham of '' The Guardian'' wrote, "As before, it's a mix of standards, quirkily personal choices and a Radiohead theme, but ''Anything Goes'' is likely to rank very high in the Mehldau trio list." Matt Collar of AllMusic commented, " Anything Goes moves from the expected to the inspired and that alone makes this worth a listen."

Track listing

# " Get Happy" (

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, Ted Koehler) – 9:47 # "Dreamsville" ( Raymond B. Evans,

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, Henry Mancini) – 5:03 # " Anything Goes" (

) – 7:08 # "Tres Palabras" (Osvaldo Farrés) – 5:01 # "Skippy" ( Thelonious Monk) – 5:24 # " Nearness of You" ( Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington) – 6:43 # "Still Crazy After All These Years" (

) – 5:21 # "

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" ( Thom Yorke,

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) – 6:55 # " Smile" (

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, Geoff Parsons, James John Turner Phillips) – 6:48 # "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" (

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) – 4:49

Personnel

* Brad Mehldau – Piano * Larry Grenadier –

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Credits

*Produced by Brad Mehldau and Matt Pierson *Mastered by Greg Calbi *Engineered by James Farber, Steve Mazur, Aya Takemura *Photography by Warren Darius Aftahi *Production Coordination by Dana Watson

References

External links

One Way Magazine article: Brad Mehldau, Anything Goes
{{Authority control 2004 albums Albums produced by Matt Pierson Brad Mehldau albums Warner Records albums