In 2018, the jazz pianist Brad Mehldau played a solo Bach concert at the Philharmonie de Paris; in 2020, the Philharmonie asked if he would play another one, this time swapping out Bach for the Beatles.
Brad Mehldau is arguably the greatest working jazz pianist. Top five, for sure. He’s fifty-two—too old to be a wunderkind, too young to be an éminence grise, although his hair is grayer and thinner than it was on the cover of “Introducing Brad Mehldau,” his 1995 début as a bandleader, which included some standards and the originals “Angst” and “Young Werther.
The other day, Mehldau stood in front of 7 Jones Street, a non-prime building in a prime West Village location, where he’d lived in the early nineties. “Last time I came around, they still had my name on the buzzer,” he said. Not anymore.
For years, Mehldau and his wife, the Dutch vocalist Fleurine, split their time between a suburb of Amsterdam and a rental on the Upper West Side. During, they were locked down in the Netherlands, and they let the lease on the New York apartment run out. They have two daughters and a teen-age son who’s an aspiring drummer. “Last night, he and I went to Smalls,” Mehldau said. “He tells me what he thinks of the music, and I do my best to stay quiet.
Mehldau kept walking, determined to find the Corner Bistro from memory. “Ah, fuck it,” he said, and opened a map on his phone. He remembered the late-night burgers and the jukebox, which had “everything from Tom Waits to Miles.” They still serve the burger, but the jukebox has been replaced by an A.T.M.; the music now comes from Spotify—the free version.
Stepping outside, Mehldau was recognized by a fan named Bobby Tiemann, a thirty-year-old musician. “I don’t mean to bother you,” Tiemann said.“I love what you did with—Bach’s Fugue in G Minor, was it? You played that one?”Afterward, he said, “He was sweet. At least he didn’t ‘Mr. Mehldau’ me.” ♦New Yorker Favorites
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