Anything Goes (Brad Mehldau album)

Anything Goes is a contemporary jazz album by the Brad Mehldau trio. The title track is Cole Porter's "Anything Goes" arranged for the trio. The album, like many of Mehldau's other albums, contains several jazz arrangements of pop/rock songs, including "Still Crazy After All These Years" by Paul Simon, and "Everything in Its Right Place" by Radiohead.

Reception
Tim Perlich of Now stated, "Jazz pianist Brad Mehldau has never been much of a risk-taker, preferring instead to straddle the thin line that divides the progressively minded traditionalists and the conservative modernists. On the disappointing Anything Goes, Mehldau surrenders to his commercial impulses and adopts the clichéd contemporary pop-jazz album formula." John Fordham of The Guardian wrote, "As before, it's a mix of standards, quirkily personal choices and a Radiohead theme, but Anything Goes is likely to rank very high in the Mehldau trio list." Matt Collar of AllMusic commented, " Anything Goes moves from the expected to the inspired and that alone makes this worth a listen."

Track listing

 * 1) "Get Happy" (Harold Arlen, Ted Koehler) – 9:47
 * 2) "Dreamsville" (Raymond B. Evans, Jay Livingston, Henry Mancini) – 5:03
 * 3) "Anything Goes" (Cole Porter) – 7:08
 * 4) "Tres Palabras" (Osvaldo Farrés) – 5:01
 * 5) "Skippy" (Thelonious Monk) – 5:24
 * 6) "Nearness of You" (Hoagy Carmichael, Ned Washington) – 6:43
 * 7) "Still Crazy After All These Years" (Paul Simon) – 5:21
 * 8) "Everything in Its Right Place" (Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood) – 6:55
 * 9) "Smile" (Charlie Chaplin, Geoff Parsons, James John Turner Phillips) – 6:48
 * 10) "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 4:49

Personnel

 * Brad Mehldau – Piano
 * Larry Grenadier – Bass
 * Jorge Rossy – Drums

Credits

 * Produced by Brad Mehldau and Matt Pierson
 * Mastered by Greg Calbi
 * Engineered by James Farber, Steve Mazur, Aya Takemura
 * Photography by Warren Darius Aftahi
 * Production Coordination by Dana Watson