You clearly know jack shit about politics so stay in your lane and keep playing the piano

This is an amazing read. Thanks

@@BasedKenniff And who has the lane to comment on politics...? Thanks for the note Brad. I like the nuance you provide.

​@@BasedKenniff I understand it's hard to read this piece when your attention span doesn't surpass 280 characters but give it a shot. Might clear things up a bit.

@@NaturesGesture lmao I just read it, anyone who thinks trump is racist is a fucking moron. And he blames the shootings on him? The left is truly brainwashed. Very sad!

U have Carl Jung's profile pic and u listen to Brad Mehldau.Niiice.

I was listening to 'Stupid Fuck' by Sonny Sharrock the other day. Check it out; you'll dig it. Jazz is protest.

Exactly. Innovation, experimenting and standing UP! Brad is truly great, not only in “jazz” playing, but also in the way of thinking.... Massive respect

the creators of so called "jazz" was one of many forms of america's enslaved africans Resistance & Rebellion against good ole American white supremacy (and global).

@@keybobrob1 yep, the same during its evolution, I think of bebop.

I was thinking the same thing only substitute brian eno for buckethead! :)

I was thinking the same thing only substitute radiohead for buckethead :)

Graziano Conti Great song but politically and philosophically more of a 180. The creators are incredibly out of touch for artists. The politics here is old guard establishment propaganda-not only ruining a great tune but painfully boring, and intellectually lazy/embarrassing. Signals fake Care and artistry. Bigotry and projection. The creators are in this respect everything they claim to despise, either spellbound or worse. Hard to believe any artists would still be pushing these bigoted hateful and false narratives.

Hehe, JC reference.

I've seen him yesterday with Larry and Jeff ah Levallois-Perret FRANCE and he is like a great bottle of wine if you know what i mean ;)

Brad plays "Therevox, OB-6, xylophone, piano" on this track.

this shows us there are none!

callate, pendejete.

Max Verweijen Yes probably, there is more music like this out there. This is pretty wild even by the standards of the modern jazz genre though. There is a lot to be explored here, I hope you have a good journey with it.

Steve Hunter 100% this.

Also Miles Davis, Max Roach, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Nina Simone and Sonny Rollins. All wrote compositions with political themes.

Beethoven, Wagner, Rzewski, Crumb etc.

I dont think mocking Trump is anything new

yakuphan bilgiç Great song, but the creators are brainwashed beyond belief. An artistic fail from Go. What’s the point of being an artist? The politics here are old guard establishment propaganda- ruining fantastic music. The makers are the real bigots, and truly lazy intellectually. They are everything they claim to despise. Great tune tho!

Imagine how insulated and profoundly out of touch the “artists” have to be to regurgitate absurd conformist propaganda like this. They take the job so seriously. They’re such hateful bigots they haven’t done any outreach or intermingling or research in how many years? Ever? Fail. Projection 101. And I’m just hoping they’re merely brainwashed and not deliberate in their propaganda delivery here, and not actually doing damage control to cover their butts. You cannot have political concerns if you do not care in the first place lol.

Parroting the same exact cookie-cutter narrative that Silicon Valley, the legacy mainstream media, corporations, Hollywood, and the academia have been churning out for years now. Yeah, that's so brave and original.

Matt, this is not a new "mock" of trump. It is a musical commentary about us and the influence we allow him to exert over us. He is asking us to search our hearts and minds about the fear we embrace and our willingness to ignore the "fake" news.

lol

Laurent Kasprowicz If you are a human and fancy yourself a liberal you should be off put when any artist is so careless and out of touch they become indoctrinated and propagate establishment lies. Art has a long history of being used to indoctrinate. Deliberate or not, the politics here are woefully under informed and bigoted. It’s worth mentioning, and tarnished a fantastic composition to boot. How can any jazzist or artist be this profoundly incurious, poorly educated, and out of touch with people in general? No excuses.

pokedude449 Speak for yourself. That’s the problem with projection. This all has been ongoing years before the 2016 election. The scapegoats shift quite a bit. You underestimate the intelligence and discernment of both jazz lovers and trump supporters. Jazzists and jazz fans, like any artist, should without question have enough of a diverse mix of experience and friends/acquaintances as well as a flow toward the intuitive to see right through flimsy divide and rule establishment propaganda. Not very difficult to do even if one is confused by the hallucinations manufactured in many corners of our culture.

pokedude449 If the community is overrun with unthinking indoctrinated automatons who live in bubbles and forgot how to follow through jazz has failed. Should be obvious. Of all people lol. Like the propaganda itself, a 180. I’m not guessing. Unless you have amnesia you know this isn’t about Trump, right? How does scapegoating work through the ages? Who managed these narratives and faux resistance movements so badly it exposed and splintered the left? Who exposed them and was it before or after the election of the number one scapegoat of the lazy hive mind? What’s the point of being an artist? A jazz maker? Ergo, if you end up being everything ya claim to hate and don’t care enough to mingle and dig into the scenery the jazz tried but failed to save you from the numbing programming - it’s a collaborative deal.

pokedude449 I know plenty of musicians who disagree. Funding of the arts is a scam, although much of the arts are a scam to begin. Rich history about that subject. But the funding is a form of control to do much what this video does-push establishment propaganda. It also guarantees continued control of the arts by a bunch of degenerate laundering vampires. I think we’re past that. One reason the left has splintered is that so many classical liberals woke up and started thinking. Found out a lotta those safety nets are scams even bigger than the top tier art scene-they entrap you. More control. Exactly what all artists and revolutionaries desire. Lol. Regarding immigration the Left’s extreme pols and activists only pretend to care just as they do with ALL their pet causes, and why they strangely smear and abuse everyone they publicly advocate for... they care only inasmuch as they love cheap labor. Cheaper than musicians. They even prefer Honduran illegal immigrants over Mexican ones because they can get them even cheaper. These are liberals I’m talking about here. Savvy? That alongside the trafficking is their only concern at the top. Period. And your other scam is supporting disarming innocent ppl to leave them sitting ducks to people spellbound and totalitarian? Slave traders wrote your script. Ever take a remedial history course? You are profoundly out of touch for an artist. Yes, unlike this video and your hallucinations the dependency on slave traders isn’t good for the planet or jazz. And I didn’t even touch on the psychological abuse writ large, related to these subjects of self esteem, dependency, Stockholm syndrome, and so on. Why did the feminist movement and blm splinter? Who exposed them? Why? How can a jazzist not know Malcolm or Garvey or one Hotep? Are we all only allowed to address one little bunch of ideas or issues at a time? This was all transpiring prior to the 2016 election. Did you forget? It would’ve been more obvious had more liberals spoken out early but in their defense the fake and totally fascist leftists co-opted or infiltrated everything, then proceeded to push censorship / deplatforming / gangstalking / hoax hate crimes / and went after livelihoods and reputations to push their nightmares upon everyone else. Sound familiar? Artists of any stripe should know better and in fact should’ve already known. It was activists and creatives on the left who blew the whistles first. Not everyone digs the victim or pet role, and that’s how the old guard wants it (L/R).

pokedude449 Top down I mean. It’s worth one’s time to dig into the history of cultural gatekeepers and art as propaganda delivery system. Abstract expressionism for example. The 60s and 70s music scene another. More transparency in present day. Lower quality too. Then there’s the rampant laundering, in fine arts and film. Psychological operations. Various criminal activities that might turn stomachs. Tightly controlled dream machine/reality studio. Mostly fiction.

Agreed

the spoken word part seems forced, out of place, and underinformed. if anything, the content of the spoken word -- if you can even call it that -- strives to maintain a domestic wall with the whole "us vs. them" narrative. ...not good. the "they're coming back" at the end, however poetic, does not convince that there could be a unifying aspect to this. i would like to see Brad Mehldau do a rural America tour (maybe covering songs coming from Nashville) -- not performance venues that cater to the liberal demographic. i say that because I think his music could be a legitimate gateway to different tastes that might be belief-altering. that said, I am a big big Brad Mehldau fan and always will be -- regardless.

It ruins a terrific song. Not to mention it signals either careless, spellbound creators who are so profoundly out of touch and poorly educated they are pushing old guard establishment propaganda or doing deliberate damage control. Artists of all people should never be this bigoted and misinformed. Projection and deflection plus pseudo intelligence is a bad mix. Conformist drivel. Can we get the song without the bigoted undereducated careless bs?

why should "I" be made to listen to the heart and soul of the artist?! Why should "I" be made to bear the fact that this artist is a human being living in a very important political age! Why should "I" be made uncomfortable by someone else's art!?! Jesus christ that sounds limp dick fucked doesn't it?!

Lane arndt what heart and soul? If you buy this authoritarian narrative and bigotry you are clearly everything you claim to hate. Totally out of touch.

Em Ce I’m an artist. I love political art...provided it isn’t made by virtue signaling zombies who in my estimation are failures at the job. If so they should be made fun of and exposed for pretending to be artists and diverse intellectuals when they are anything but. It’s also bad for art and jazz when shortsighted brainwashed bigots (or worse) are its representatives. Why do you think so many are turned off by it? Btw when I say they lack diversity that includes all races and classes as well as information itself. Therein lies the rub. How can a jazzist or artist be so insulated and prejudiced they’d buy into and propagate establishment bs?

Cringier comment.

@@BAwesomeDesign Cringest response

Agree

Matt Orlando it’s less about factual analysis but about conviction. Same as music. Same like Pink Floyd the wall

@@mohitoness true some feelings can't be quantified but usually raw feelings have a bit of hesitation this seems to be preaching as if mehldau is some deity from on high and uses THE most basic stereotypes. This adds nothing new to the dialogue just more of the same. Now mehldau, a legend, has the same quality content as any given schmuck in media. Going down to their level is still going down to their level, no matter how many b5's are in it.

Yeah. Jazz music has never reflected cultural or political moments. Ever in its history. Come on, Brad. Don't you know just to stay in your lane? Give me a break. "This dates the music." As if Cole Porter is irrelevant because he references the Kinsey Report in "Too Darn Hot." Or Sarah Vaughn's "Strange Fruit" doesn't have cultural impact to this day. Maybe, just maybe, as you are in this moment, you feel that it's "dated." In the moment you could argue it feels on the nose. But it's also a musical statement that draws on both musical energy and the energy provoked by words that equally provoke a feeling in listeners (and likely will for years to come). The idea that it "weakens the potential energy of the song"... I hate to say "laughable" but I can't think of a better word than that.

Obviously cool jazz era had a lot to say but with their presence they made a statement, not in the middle of green dolphin street, Miles still had respect for music. Theres a reason the Ramones endure and the 80s political hardcore scene never lasted, music was secondary to the message.

Persona Non Grata yes, this song reminds me typical rant from the tinfoil hat club

Agreed. Been a Mehldau-fan for over 10 years. This was a bit disappointing. Trump was a natural response to the cultural brainwashing and the rising Marxist movement in the west. I don't think Trump's support is based on hate, but media likes to blow it up when it happens. I think it's just an easy scapegoat. Antifa is widely ignored by the media and supported by media figures like Carlos Maza. The left is doing most of the violence, because they are taught to see "hate" everywhere, and therefore jutsifying a voilent response. Look at some videos from Portland. The fundamental element of someone who is on the Right side of politics is self-responsibility, and of late, freedom of speech, and most of all, liberty. Not fascism. Look at how Trump supporters helped to clean up Baltimore. That's based on love for your country, not hate. Antifa likes to protest and interfere with right wing and moderate people from even speaking at rallies, and most of all, universities, the left wing churches. That's the world we live in today. Some people just realize that taking in illegal immigrants and promising handouts will tank the economy. Has nothing to do with hate.

Brad weighed in on this on a response from someone in the link above. "Your view of music as a "spiritual phenomenon, which can allow its listeners transcendence from the world of appearances, of which politics, even the increasingly virulent, ugly form it takes in our present world, is only an illusion" strikes me. As I understand it, the interpolation of the Trump stuff and the voice overs short-circuited this transcendence. Honestly...I fear you may be right. Joel Frahm's two solos were so killing! Shouldn't I have let the music just rip along and do its own thing? It's funny - you may have experienced something similar as a musician: There are things that we put out there to the world about which we are not sure, yet we are compelled to press send. We can only know whether it was the right or wrong move when they are actually out there, for better or worse. In one sense, I wish now there could have been a version without the voice overs. It would be easy enough to take them off the track and release "The Prophet is A Fool" without them; maybe I'll do that down the road when the dust settles a bit. On the other hand - I still stick by what I was conveying there.

@@saxnova --I will listen to it again. Maybe I was wrong. As someone who plays and collects music, I will know in less than 30 sec. if I missed something. Not likely...

@@saxnova --I'm a flute player. That's as good an excuse as any.

Wow what a snowflake 😂

Trump's music pretty good ngl