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'After Bach' Offers Brad Mehldau's Well-Tempered Jazz

Inspired by J.S. Bach, jazz pianist Brad Mehldau alternates originals from Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier with his own reinventions.
On Brad Mehldau's new album, he alternates keyboard works by J.S. Bach with his own jazz-inflected explorations.

When compiled the first book of the in 1722, he wrote that the 24 preludes and fugues were "for the profit and use of musical youth desirous of learning,

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