About This Song
About "Alfie" by Brad Mehldau
Burt Bacharach's 'Alfie' becomes, in Mehldau's hands, a smoky meditation on love's ambiguity. The piano rolls slow and knowing, each chord a glance across a crowded room. The original's cinematic sweep is narrowed to an intimate ache—what's it all about, asked not with pop bravado but with jazz's weary, wondering grace.