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What I Know About Big Ears

A festival where discovery assumes a few different forms

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Nate Chinen
Mar 29, 2024
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Brad Mehldau and Christian McBride at the Tennessee Theater, March 23, 2024. (Nate Chinen)

Not far into their exquisite duo concert at the Tennessee Theater last Saturday afternoon, Brad Mehldau and Christian McBride paused to consider their options. They’d opened with two songs of rhythmic pull and casual grace: Mehldau’s deftly gliding “Aquaman” and a …

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