![]() ![]() Zimmerli went on to study composition and has had great success in the contemporary-classical world. He knew Hays, also a Connecticut native, through music competitions. Zimmerli, a mutual old friend, grew up in West Hartford, CT, playing saxophone in the same high school jazz program as Mehldau, who was two years younger. Both musicians initially came to prominence with stints in early-1990s lineups of Joshua Redman’s quartet before launching successful careers as solo performers and band leaders. This collaboration grew out of the long-standing desire of Mehldau and Hays, friends and colleagues since they both arrived on New York’s jazz scene in the late 1980s, to work together. The album features pieces written by each of the three musicians as well as works by Steve Reich, Ornette Coleman, and Philip Glass, performed by the two pianists in arrangements by Zimmerli. Nonesuch Records releases Modern Music, a collaboration between pianists Brad Mehldau and Kevin Hays and composer/arranger Patrick Zimmerli, on September 20, 2011.
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