Pianist/composer Brad Mehldau, bassist Christian McBride, and drummer Marcus Gilmore were at Chenery Auditorium in Kalamazoo, Michigan, for The Gilmore this past April. The trio performed songs by Mehldau, Cole Porter, Thelonious Monk, and more. You can now watch the full performance here:

Mehldau and McBride—who can also be heard together on three albums with Joshua Redman and Brian Blade: LongGone (2022), RoundAgain (2020), and MoodSwing (2009)—meet up again in September for a week at the Blue Note in New York City and October for a duo tour of the United States, with shows in Burlington, Minneapolis, Chicago, Eugene, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Mesa, and Winston-Salem, then again next March for shows in Paris and Munich. For more on these and all of Mehldau's upcoming performances, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.

Brad Mehldau’s new album, Ride into the Sun—a songbook record of music by the late singer, songwriter, and guitarist Elliott Smith—is due August 29 on Nonesuch. The album features performances by singer/guitarist Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear, singer/mandolinist Chris Thile, bassists Felix Moseholm and John Davis, drummer Matt Chamberlain, and a chamber orchestra led by Dan Coleman. Its ten Elliott Smith songs are complemented by four Mehldau compositions inspired by him and interpretations of Big Star’s “Thirteen,” which Smith also covered, and “Sunday” by Nick Drake, whom Mehldau sees "in some ways as sort of Smith’s visionary grandfather.” You can hear three songs from the album and pre-order it here.