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• Jacob’s Ladder is an album by Brad Mehldau. It was recorded in 2020 and 2021 and released by Nonesuch Records in 2022.

  The world is the world is, love and life are deep, maybe as his eyes are wide. These key lines from the bridge of Rushs song Tom Sawyer are the first sounds heard on Jacobs Ladder, pianist Brad Mehldaus latest album, a double LP deeply indebted to progressive rock and scripture.

  Where Mehldau created vast, varied soundscapes on Finding Gabriel, his 2019 also-spiritually-and-scripturally-influenced album, that one expressed a search for divine guidance in the last decade; the journey of Jacobs Ladder is more focused. Mehldau embraces his original musical love: progressive rock by the likes of Rush, Yes, and Gentle Giant. Progs conceptualism pairs well with the multiple directions M