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comprehensive jazz resource   Brad Mehldau's Opening, Middle and
Endgame  By Published: October 7, 2003  AAJ: Coming from an
acoustic format for so long, how did you come to accept working
with electronic elements so readily?  BM: It's not a
particularly electronic record. With the exception of vibes on a
few tracks, I'm playing a grand piano. So I was never really out
of my comfort zone in terms of what it felt like when I was
playing, and it was to Jon's credit that he created it that way.
It was what he did to alter the sound of the piano that I was
playing that put everything in a different light - behind the
mixing board, putty on the strings of the piano, putting it
through a leslie speaker with distortion, etc...  AAJ: Right,
prepared piano. How were the players chosen and why?  BM: Jon
recommended Matt Chamberlian and Jim Keltner and I readily
agreed. I've loved their playing fo