Covering songs by Radiohead and The Beatles is hardly innovative way of getting attention for your album, but not many artists cover them quite like this. The Brad Mehldau Trio's eleventh album finds them again occupying that unique position somewhere between trancelike jazz inducers and upbeat bebop performers as well as performing many (barely) recognisable pop and rock songs.

But of course we must start off with Day Is Done's opening track and most surprising achievement. It kicks off with Knives Out, ironically one of the most straightforward tracks from Radiohead's Amnesiac album.

This was done as a first take and was the first time the trio had played it together, but was done so well that it ended up being the final take, and is full of improvisation and experimentation, building up the pace towards the end and offering only occasional snatches of recognisable themes from the original.

You certainly get the feeling this will probably be Radiohead's favourite cover version of their songs, although there is competition from Mehldau's previous versions of Paranoid Android (which has to be heard to be believed) and Everything In Its Right Place. Burt Bacharach's Alfie is next, and is slightly more straight-forward, with Mehldau's piano playing those familiar refrains while new member Jeff Ballard gently strokes his drums.

The Beatles' Martha My Dear is given a very jolly going over on solo piano, certainly much more light and airy than the original, while She's Leaving Home is much more oblique and difficult to pin down. The title track, a Nick Drake song from Five Leaves Left, is a very grand intepretation, plucked along on its way by bassist Larry Grenadier, while 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover by Paul Simon is another bass-lead track.

Of course, there's more to the Trio than just the covers, with a few original tracks thrown in there as well, making this one of the best new jazz releases of the year so far and certainly an intruiging entry into the career of one of the 21st Century's most talented pianists.