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May 20th 2013
Vienna, Austria
- Acoustic Africa
- ACS: Allen, Carrington, Spalding
- Altan
- Altan Symphony
- Anat Cohen
- Avishai Cohen
- Avishai Cohen presents: The Big Vicious
- Avishai Cohen presents: The Big Vicious
- Becca Stevens
- Brad Mehldau
- Caetano Veloso
- Cherish The Ladies
- Cherish The Ladies Symphony
- Cherish The Ladies: Celtic Christmas
- Chris Potter
- Chris Thile
- Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau
- Dave Holland
- DeJohnette, Lovano, Spalding, and Genovese Quartet
- Dianne Reeves
- Dianne Reeves Symphony
- Dianne Reeves: Christmas Time is Here
- Dobet Gnahoré
- Esperanza Spalding
- Gabriel Kahane
- Ghost Train Orchestra
- Gilberto Gil
- Habib Koité
- Habib Koité and Raul Midón
- Idan Raichel Project
- Irish Homecoming
- Jack DeJohnette
- Jason Moran
- Joe Lovano
- Joe Lovano Symphony
- John Scofield
- Joshua Redman
- Kaki King
- Kathy Mattea
- Kathy Mattea Speaking/Keynote
- Kathy Mattea Symphony
- Kathy Mattea: My Coal Journey
- Kathy Mattea: Songs and the Season
- Kurt Elling
- Kurt Elling Symphony
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo
- Lizz Wright
- Lizz Wright and Raul Midón
- Lizz Wright Symphony
- Marisa Monte
- McCoy Tyner
- MEHLIANA featuring Brad Mehldau and Mark Guiliana
- MEHLIANA featuring Brad Mehldau and Mark Guiliana
- Newport Jazz Festival: Now 60
- Omara Portuondo
- On Sacred Ground
- On Sacred Ground: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
- Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club®
- Oscar Castro-Neves
- Oscar Castro-Neves Symphony
- Oscar Hernandez's Latin Jazz Quintet, Alma Libre
- Pedrito Martinez
- Raul Midón
- Richard Bona
- Roberto Fonseca
- Rokia Traoré
- Saxophone Summit
- Sing the Truth!
- Sound Prints
- Sound Prints
- Spanish Harlem Orchestra
- Spanish Harlem Orchestra: Salsa Navidad
- SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK
- SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK Traditional
- SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK...A TRIBUTE
- SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK: AFFIRMATIONS
- SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK: CELEBRATING THE HOLYDAYS
- Terri Lyne Carrington
- The 3 Cohens
The Bad Plus has spent more than a decade redefining what a piano-bass-drums trio can and should be. They’ve reached audiences of all demographic stripes with an uncompromising body of original music (plus some ingenious, genre-jumping covers) and dedicated touring around the globe. On their eighth studio album, Made Possible, bassist Reid Anderson, pianist Ethan Iverson and drummer David King take their distinctive musical M.O. to captivating new heights, proving once again that the rules of musical convention are made to be broken.
“This band contains some of the most punk energy I’ve ever seen or felt as a musician — it just doesn’t need to do it so obviously,” King says. “That’s our statement. It’s a complex emotion.”
Made Possible marks a palpable departure for The Bad Plus on a few fronts. Layers of synth and electronic drum sounds can be heard prowling amid the trio’s signature acoustic palette. Also, whereas the group’s new material typically gets a thorough road test before being recorded, these songs were brought in with looser expectations and even more potent possibilities. And for the first time since 2005’s Suspicious Activity?, the band chose to record far away from its Minnesota motherland, holing up instead at a remote studio in upstate New York.
The resulting nine tracks — eight originals plus a loving nod to the late Paul Motian (“Victoria”) — showcase everything this groundbreaking trio is capable of: pulse-pounding anthems, bright-eyed melancholia, bold juxtapositions, tunefully mathy contortions and a masterful sense of song. “Seven Minute Mind” and “Wolf Out” are streaked with heady minimalism. “For My Eyes Only” and the epic “In Stitches” highlight the group’s vulnerable, ambitiously emotive core. “Re-Elect That” honors and extends the rich bloodline of American avant jazz, while “I Want to Feel Good Part Two” offers an irresistible two-beat that’s equally suitable for a postmodernist time capsule or a church picnic. As ever, the sum effect is a welcome demolition of what listeners might expect from an instrumental trio.
Per Iverson, “It’s the sound of getting together in your garage and all committing, no matter what, seeing what you can make up today.”
Throughout its career, The Bad Plus has held fast to a band ethos (deeply collaborative with no “leader”) and a belief in what its members like to call avant-garde populism (progressive, musically sophisticated ideas without the highbrow trappings). Made Possible is a vivid and convincing document of this passionate stance, loaded with genre-defying music that is at once complex, heartfelt and instantly engaging.
May 30th 2013
Gent, Belgium
Arts Center Vooruit
On Sacred Ground: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring Arranged and Performed by The Bad Plus
Jun 6th 2013
Ojai, CA USA
Ojai Music Festival, Libbey Bowl
The Bad Plus Original music from Made Possible Stravinsky: Rite of Spring arranged by The Bad Plus
Jun 7th 2013
Ojai, CA USA
Agave Maria Restaurant
The Bad Plus Open Mic Sessions with Mark Morris
Oct 3rd 2013
St. Louis, MO USA
The Skip Viragh Center for the Arts
On Sacred Ground: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring arranged and performed by The Bad Plus
Oct 21st 2013
North Vancouver, BC, CANADA
NSCU Centre at Capilano University
The Bad Plus
Oct 23rd 2013
Quebec, QC, CANADA
Theatre Petit Champlain, Festival De Jazz De Quebe
The Bad Plus
Oct 25th 2013
Chicago, IL USA
Performance Hall at Logan Center for the Arts, Uni
On Sacred Ground: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring arranged and performed by The Bad Plus
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Live Review: The Bad Plus at Colston Hall
from classical-music.com (The official website of BBC Music Magazine) Neil McKim enjoys a Bristol concert by jazz misfits The Bad Plus by Neil McKim This was one of the most good-humoured concerts I have seen for a long time… and...
Posted May 14th, 2013
The Bad Plus (Plus One)
From The Los Angeles Times Review: Brad Mehldau, the Bad Plus push jazz further ahead at UCLA By: Chris Barton There was no shortage of curiosity going into headliners the Bad Plus, which was paired with a special guest in...
Posted May 6th, 2013
The Bad Plus: The Difference Between Jazz & Rock Bands
From SF Weekly The Bad Plus’ Dave King on How Touring in a Jazz Band Is Different From Touring in a Rock Band By: Casey Burchby The Bad Plus visits the Bay Area on a regular basis, and we are...
Posted May 1st, 2013
Primer: The Bad Plus
From Williamette Week Primer: The Bad Plus By: Brett Campbell Formed: In 2000 in Minneapolis. Sounds like: Classically trained piano meets indie-rock drums meets jazz bass. For fans of: Blondie, Igor Stravinsky, Paul Motian, Flaming Lips, Abba, Joshua Redman, Nirvana,...
Posted Apr 24th, 2013
The Bad Plus and Bill Frisell
From The New York Times Quirks and All, a Group Welcomes a Playmate By: Ben Ratliff The Bad Plus is an odd bird. The three members of this trio individually lean on specific languages of jazz improvisation, but collectively the...
Posted Apr 15th, 2013
The "Unified Sound" of The Bad Plus
From Playbill Arts The Bad Plus By: Scott H. Thompson For more than a dozen years, The Bad Plus has pushed the boundaries of what we have come to know as the jazz trio, playing everything from David Bowie to...
Posted Mar 29th, 2013
The Bad Plus Takes a Unique Path
From The Pittsburgh Tribune Bad Plus taking a unique path to music By: Bob Karlovits Calling the Bad Plus a jazz trio is too simple a description. Sure, there are three members of the band, and they are in the...
Posted Feb 4th, 2013
The Bad Plus Finds Strength in Give & Take
From The Pittsburgh Tribune The Bad Plus finds its strength in give and take By: Bob Karlovits Drummer David King says he is breathing a little easier now that The Bad Plus has passed through the days when it “took...
Posted Jan 31st, 2013
The Bad Plus Perches on Genre's Edge
From The Columbia Daily Tribune Trio perches on genre’s edge with deep catalog, wild covers By: Aarik Danielsen The Bad Plus is not your grandfather’s piano trio. Unless, of course, your grandfather was a mad genius capable of both stark-raving...
Posted Jan 21st, 2013
The Bad Plus Continues A Tradition
From KDHX The Bad Plus continues a January tradition at Jazz at the Bistro By: Wil Wander “January has officially arrived because the Bad Plus is in St. Louis,” remarked Jazz at the Bistro‘s Bob Bennett as he introduced the...
Posted Jan 17th, 2013
The Bad Plus Balances Jazz, Rock and Originality
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch The Bad Plus balances jazz, rock and originality By: Calvin Wilson In the jazz world, there’s no shortage of piano-bass-drums trios. It’s a configuration that has accommodated pianists from the introspective Bill Evans to the explosive...
Posted Jan 14th, 2013
The Bad Plus: Highlighted in Jazz 2012 Review
From Austinist Jazz 2012: A Year in Review By: Dan Lothringer Best Touring Performance: Joan Jonas and Jason Moran One of the most exciting performance all year hands-down was “The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things,” a collaboration between...
Posted Jan 2nd, 2013
The Bad Plus: "new, original, and ambitious"
From Jazz Times The Bad Plus: Made Possible, Dave King: I’ve Been Ringing You By: Thomas Conrad The boys are back. Made Possible is the 10th album by the Bad Plus. They are still loud and inappropriate. They are still...
Posted Dec 19th, 2012
Dave King of The Bad Plus
From Modern Drummer Dave King of the Bad Plus: Web-Exclusive Interview By: Michael Parillo I’ve always been attracted to the mystery of things, not just the road map,” says Dave King of the Bad Plus, MD’s October 2012 cover star....
Posted Dec 5th, 2012
The Bad Plus on BBC Radio
From BBC Radio 6 Music The Bad Plus “Aw jeah. Huey’s here, with the jams in the jar and love in his heart. This week’s guests, The Bad Plus, push the boundaries of jazz whilst making it inclusive at the...
Posted Nov 12th, 2012
A Conversation with The Bad Plus' Ethan Iverson
From Huffington Post Monday Magic: Conversations With Gary Clark Jr., The Bad Plus’ Ethan Iverson, Kaki King and Lindi Ortega By: Mike Ragogna A Conversation With The Bad Plus’ Ethan Iverson Mike Ragogna: We’ve got the pianist from that rad,...
Posted Nov 5th, 2012
From album to album, The Bad Plus continue to evolve...
from www.bbc.co.uk THE BAD PLUS – MADE POSSIBLE By: John Eyles In the years since pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson and drummer David King formed The Bad Plus in 2000, the trio has built a solid reputation as a...
Posted Nov 1st, 2012
The Bad Plus "changed the game in the jazz genre."
From Next Bop For Your Consideration: The Bad Plus’ ‘Made Possible’ By: Anthony Dean-Harris Consider for a moment the career arc of The Bad Plus. When the trio of pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson, and drummer Dave King burst...
Posted Oct 30th, 2012
Fresh Ears Review The Bad Plus' Made Possible
From MVRemix The Bad Plus – Made Possible album review By: Melissa Mendoza When I was assigned to write about The Bad Plus, they sounded like a hard-core rock band. I’ve never really associated a name like that with jazz,...
Posted Oct 28th, 2012
The Bad Plus: Made Possible's Dazzling Review
From The Guardian The Bad Plus: Made Possible – review By: John Fordham Made Possible is at once vintage Bad Plus in its striking themes, nonchalant time-bends and full-on collective improv, and proof of this awesome ensemble’s continuing evolution. All...
Posted Oct 22nd, 2012
The Arts Desk Reviews The Bad Plus' New Album
From The Arts Desk CD: The Bad Plus – Made Possible From Satie-like simplicity to player piano virtuosity, the US trio is on dazzling form By: Peter Quinn Possessing one of the most recognisable sounds in jazz, US trio The...
Posted Oct 16th, 2012
The Bad Plus: Messengers for the Jazz Sound
From The LA Times The Bad Plus: Messengers for the Jazz Sound By: Chris Barton Drawing inspiration from the pop world is far from a new phenomenon in the jazz tradition, but for the Bad Plus, it was a move...
Posted Oct 9th, 2012
The Rite Stuff: Bad Plus Trio
From The San Francisco Classical Voice The Rite Stuff: Bad Plus Trio By: Jeff Kaliss Since the turn of the millennium, The Bad Plus has earned cred as a trio which, despite its wide appeal, resists being confined by musical...
Posted Oct 5th, 2012
The Bad Plus Brings A New Style
From The Philadelphia Inquirer The Bad Plus brings a new style to Chris’ Jazz Cafe By: Shaun Brady …The Bad Plus also has changed: Missing from the two sets on Saturday night were any of those crowd-pleasing, slightly tongue-in-cheek rock...
Posted Oct 1st, 2012
Made Possible
North American Release: September 25, 2012 International Release: October 22, 2012 The Bad Plus has spent over a decade breaking down the walls of jazz convention, reaching audiences of all demographic stripes with an uncompromising body of original music (plus...
Posted Sep 25th, 2012
The Bad Plus' Made Possible - Out Today!
From The New York Times New Albums From Bad Plus and the Dave King Trio By: Nate Chinen After more than a decade of steady touring and recording, the Bad Plus truly knows itself. That may seem obvious, given that...
Posted Sep 25th, 2012
The Bad Plus Raise a Ruckus on Tour Opener
From Rolling Stone The Bad Plus Raise a Ruckus on Tour Opener in Knoxville By: Ryan Reed A few songs into their lean, heavy-hitting set at Knoxville’s Bijou Theatre, during the reflective coda of “The Empire Strikes Backwards” Bad Plus...
Posted Sep 21st, 2012
The Bad Plus' Reid Anderson Talks New Music
From The Thread Interview: Reid Anderson of the Bad Plus By: Brian Howe The new Bad Plus album doesn’t hit stores until September 25, but if you live near Durham you can cop it early at the venturesome jazz trio’s...
Posted Sep 17th, 2012
The Bad Plus Unveil Mini Documentary, New Album
From City Pages The Bad Plus unveil mini documentary about new album, Made Possible By: Reed Fisher The beauty of Upstate New York gets paired with forks jabbed into the innards of a grand piano for celebrated local jazz trio...
Posted Aug 29th, 2012
IFC Premieres The Bad Plus' New Video
From IFC Take a sneak peek at Bad Plus’ new album “Made Possible” By: Melissa Locker The Bad Plus has spent more than a decade redefining what most people think of jazz, instead making music that even rock fans find...
Posted Aug 21st, 2012
The Bad Plus Bring Jazz Touch to Rite of Spring
From: WQXR The Bad Plus Bring Jazz Touch to Rite of Spring By: Emily Ostertag At the notorious premiere of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring in 1913, riots broke out in the audience. When the boundary-smashing jazz trio the Bad...
Posted Aug 1st, 2012
REVIEW: The Bad Plus and Joshua Redman at Queen's Hall
from Herald Scotland The Bad Plus & Joshua Redman, Queen’s Hall By Rob Adams One of these musicians was guesting with a trio of 11 years’ standing. Yes, I know it’s obvious from the billing that it was Joshua Redman...
Posted Jul 25th, 2012
REVIEW: The Bad Plus at Teatro Spiegeltent
from Scotsman The Bad Plus at Teatro Spiegeltent By Paul Christie The Capital’s annual jazz festival is in full swing this week as bands and artists from all over the world flock to Edinburgh to be part of the line-up...
Posted Jul 24th, 2012
REVIEW: The Bad Plus at Austin Chamber Music Festival
from Austin 360 The Bad Plus-Austin American Statesman Review By Luke Quinton You don’t hear a lot chamber music festivals with audiences hollering out requests, or men excitedly hooting “Woooooo!” after a piece. But then, Austin’s Chamber Music Festival brought...
Posted Jul 13th, 2012
REVIEW: The Bad Plus with special guest Joshua Redman
from Jazz Police 14th Twin Cities Jazz Festival: A Good Plus From Start to Finish By Andrea Canter It started with the most ambitious “Jazz Night Out” in festival history and ended with the largest festival crowd ever, filling –overfilling—Mears...
Posted Jul 9th, 2012
REVIEW: Emotion and Power - The Bad Plus and Joshua...
Emotion and power at the Jazz Festival: The Bad Plus and Joshua Redman By David Cazares Anyone who has seen or heard The Bad Plus, can’t help but be impressed by the way the trio powers its way through tunes....
Posted Jul 9th, 2012
REVIEW: The Bad Plus with Joshua Redman at Twin Cities...
from BeBopified The Bad Plus with Joshua Redman at the Twin Cities Jazz Festival By Pamela Espeland I could listen to The Bad Plus until hell freezes over or the cows come home. I’ve been a fan since “Authorized Bootleg”...
Posted Jul 2nd, 2012
The Bad Plus, Plus One
from Star Tribune The Bad Plus, Plus One By Britt Robson The trio that speaks its own “tribal language” makes room for saxman Joshua Redman at a Twin Cities Jazz Festival gig. For most of its dozen years, the Bad...
Posted Jun 25th, 2012
INTERVIEW: Ethan Iverson of The Bad Plus
from EMusic Interview: Ethan Iverson By Kevin Whitehead Ethan Iverson is a polymath: a jazz pianist equally comfortable playing Cole Porter’s “Night and Day” at a cozy club like Smalls and knocking out Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” on a theater...
Posted Jun 25th, 2012
The Bad Plus Taking Ireland By Storm
The Bad Plus Embark on Tour of Ireland The Bad Plus kick off a 6 performance Irish tour in Belfast today. Siobhán Kane nabbed pianist Ethan Iverson for a quick chat just before he jumped on a plane. Ethan Iverson,...
Posted May 25th, 2012
REVIEW: The Bad Plus - 'Rite of Spring'
from The Cornell Daily Sun The Riots of Spring By Lubabah Chowdhury Igor Stravinsky is a rather controversial name in the music world. His 1913 ballet The Rite of Spring is well known not only for its jarring dissonance and...
Posted Apr 2nd, 2012
The Bad Plus Perform a Re-Imagined Rite of Spring
from Ithaca.com The Bad Plus Perform a Re-Imagined Rite of Spring By Luke Z. Fenchel Here’s how Alex Ross, author of the indispensable account of twentieth century classical music described “Dance of the Earth,” the first part of Igor Stravinsky’s...
Posted Mar 28th, 2012
The Bad Plus with Joshua Redman at Twin Cities Jazz...
from Jazz Police 2012 Twin Cities Jazz Festival: Hot Headliners Announced By Andrea Canter Jon Weber, long-time “house pianist” for the Twin Cities Jazz Festival, came to the Artists Quarter last night for an evening of solo and trio excitement,...
Posted Jan 16th, 2012
The Bad Plus Rock Earshot as Festival Continues
from Groovenotes.org The Bad Plus Rock Earshot as Festival Continues By Kevin Kniestedt The Bad Plus aren’t the kind of trio that swings, you’re much more likely to hear after-show comments like “That rocked!” or “Those guys are epic!” Playing...
Posted Nov 2nd, 2011
REVIEW: The Bad Plus: Never Stop
From furryjazz.blogspot.com By: Jazz Maniac Never Stop, the Bad Plus’ eighth recording, is their first of completely original material. In a decade-long career filled with curve balls (the last being 2009’s For All I Care, their first set of all...
Posted Jul 26th, 2011
LIVE VIDEO: The Bad Plus
The Bad Plus performed at this year’s Locus Festival in Locorotondo, Italy. Check out this video of their performance.
Posted Jul 26th, 2011
PREVIEW The Bad Plus at Saratoga Jazz Festival
from The Saratogian Jazz fest sneak peek – The ‘Bad’ boys June 19, 2011 SARATOGA SPRINGS — Bringing its “audacious, rule-breaking” style to the Freihofer’s Saratoga Jazz Festival, The Bad Plus makes its debut on SPAC’s festival amphitheater stage on...
Posted Jun 20th, 2011
The Bad Plus: NPR Song of the Day
from NPR The Bad Plus: Jazz As Instrumental Pop by Evan Haga When The Bad Plus released These Are the Vistas in 2003, the band received notices from a lot of non-jazz press whose coverage focused on an easy angle:...
Posted Jun 15th, 2011
The Bad Plus Play Stravinsky: A concert review in seven...
From bebopified The Bad Plus Play Stravinsky: A concert review in seven movements By Bruce Abbott, Don Berryman, Larry Englund, Kip Jones, Bill Kempe, and Bonnie Marshall Larry Englund It was many, many years ago that I watched Maurice Bejart’s...
Posted Jun 10th, 2011
LIVE VIDEO: The Bad Plus in Sao Paolo, Brazil
The Bad Plus went down to Brazil for a few dates last week. Here’s some footage of ‘Never Stop’ from their performance at SESC Pompéia in Sao Paolo.
Posted Jun 3rd, 2011
INTERVIEW: Dave King of the Bad Plus talks Stravinsky
from Minnesota Public Radio Dave King of the Bad Plus talks Stravinsky St. Paul, Minn. — The Bad Plus are a Minneapolis jazz trio who are perhaps best known for their instrumental covers of rock songs, which earned them the...
Posted May 23rd, 2011
Rite of Spring, Left of Center: The Bad Plus Honors...
From Jazz Police Rite of Spring, Left of Center: The Bad Plus Honors “Sacred Ground” at the Loring By Andrea Canter One of the hallmarks of the Bad Plus is the equity of their long-standing collaboration. But the fact that...
Posted May 23rd, 2011
LIVE VIDEO: The Bad Plus with hr-Big Band
The Bad Plus played with hr Big Band in Germany over the weekend. To watch a recording of the entire performance click here
Posted May 19th, 2011
LIVE STREAM: The Bad Plus with the hr-Big Band
The Bad Plus’ performance with the hr-Big Band (DE) tomorrow in Frankfurt, Germany will be streaming live! The concert starts at 8pm local time . You can listen in here
Posted May 13th, 2011
HR Big Band meets The Bad Plus
from www.kunstfreunde-magdeburg.de Jazz in Darmstadt: hr Big Band meets The Bad Plus. Brachial sophisticated jazz – the hardest temptation since the invention of the piano trios From: Sabine Milewski ‘When the Coen brothers would put together a jazz trio, it...
Posted May 11th, 2011
REVIEW: The Bad Plus with Special Guest Joshua Redman
From The Wall Street Journal The Bad Plus with Joshua Redman: The Blue Note By: Will Friedwald Most contemporary jazz groups merely preach to the choir, but the Bad Plus is that rare band that’s managed to get through to...
Posted Apr 22nd, 2011
The Bad Plus on NPR's Weekend Edition
from NPR The Bad Plus Tackle Stravinsky’s ‘Spring’ The latest project from The Bad Plus shifts the jazz trio’s focus from rock classics to a classical masterpiece. By NPR Staff You probably know Igor Stravinsky’s controversial ballet The Rite of...
Posted Mar 21st, 2011
REVIEW: The Bad Plus at Jazz at the Bistro
Review: The Bad Plus at Jazz at the Bistro Wednesday, January 5 By Dean Minderman Perhaps best known previously for their sometimes radical re-imaginings of rock and pop songs, The Bad Plus appear to have entered a new phase with...
Posted Jan 5th, 2011
The Bad Plus Covers More Ground
from The Wall Street Journal by Martin Johnson The Bad Plus Covers More Ground Pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson and drummer David King, better known as the Bad Plus, have come a long way in their 10 years as...
Posted Dec 28th, 2010
Slate's Best Jazz Albums of 2010 Includes the Bad Plus
from Slate.com The Bad Plus, Never Stop (E-One) Those pomo bad boys with the crazy-quilt covers are back (Ethan Iverson, piano; Reid Anderson, bass; Dave King, drums), with their first album of entirely original material. The familiar wit and whimsy...
Posted Dec 16th, 2010
Reverb Interview: Dave King of the Bad Plus
from heyreverb.com Reverb Interview: Dave King of the Bad Plus By Sam DeLeo When Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” premiered in Paris about 100 years ago, a riot broke out. Not a riot as in laughter or amusement, but riot as...
Posted Dec 10th, 2010
The Bad Plus, London Jazz Fest Preview
The Bad Plus will be doing a residency at this year’s London Jazz Festival. The festival’s blog talked with the band about their excitement for the upcoming string of performances and what fans can expect. To read the article click...
Posted Nov 10th, 2010
Win a Night Out With The Bad Plus
The Guardian newspaper is offering a “a night out at the London Jazz Festival” with the Bad Plus To find out more details on how to get a free dinner at Rotunda Restaurant to the value of £80, a pair...
Posted Oct 29th, 2010
The Bad Plus, Still Totally Committed
(From The New York Times) Ten years ago the Bad Plus came together in a warm rush of camaraderie and with a clear grasp of novelty. Here was a jazz piano trio with the heart and gall of a stadium...
Posted Sep 22nd, 2010
The Bad Plus Reveals Its Roots
From Montreal Gazette The Bad Plus Reveals Its Roots MONTREAL – There are no Nirvana covers on the new Bad Plus album. In fact, there are no covers at all. For the first time in its 10-year career, the American...
Posted Sep 21st, 2010
REVIEW The Bad Plus in New York, NY
from SoundSpike Concert: The Bad Plus in New York, NY Story by Phil Gallo The trio of pianist Ethan Iverson, drummer David King and bassist Reid Anderson is celebrating 10 years of performing together by stepping away from the rock...
Posted Sep 16th, 2010
The Bad Plus Release "Never Stop" Sept. 14
THE BAD PLUS MARKS A DECADE AT THE FOREFRONT OF PROGRESSIVE MUSIC NEVER STOP, the trio’s first album of all originals, set for release on September 14, 2010 E1 Music is excited to announce the release of The Bad Plus’s...
Posted Sep 8th, 2010
The Bad Plus' "Never Stop" on NPR's First Listen
from npr.org By Patrick Jarenwattananon There was a time when the top jazz bands played a lot — say, 250-300 nights a year. At the very least, jazz acts might have enjoyed frequent extended residencies, as in month-long (or longer)...
Posted Sep 7th, 2010
"Helsinki Fest meets Minnesota madness"
from This Is Finland Minnesota trio The Bad Plus, who play the Helsinki Festival’s Huvila Tent on August 22, have a reputation for playing jazzy covers of tunes by Pink Floyd, ABBA and Nirvana. But now those covers are on...
Posted Aug 20th, 2010
The Bad Plus to play Australia's Noosa Jazz Festival
The Noosa News (Noosa, Australia) posted an article today on the recent announcement of the lineup for this year’s Noosa Jazz Festival. Among those on this year’s bill is The Bad Plus! The festival will run from September 2 until...
Posted Aug 6th, 2010
The Bad Plus Live in Chicago
From Jazzchicago.net By Brad Walseth Consider me a convert. Critical darlings The Bad Plus strode back into town for a concert appearance at the U. of Chicago’s lovely Mandel Hall, and as James (Walker) was busy celebrating the Super Bowl...
Posted Feb 5th, 2010
The Bad Plus Live in St. Louis
From JamBase.com By Patrick Shamel The Bad Plus :: 01.08.10 :: Jazz at the Bistro :: St. Louis, MO Amidst pianist Ethan Iverson’s dry humor in addressing the crowd between songs and drummer Dave King’s various children’s musical instruments utilized...
Posted Jan 27th, 2010
The Bad Plus Offers Jazzy, Unpredictable Show
By Matthew Fernandes ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 01/07/2010 Blizzard, schmizzard. Bee Gees, Schmee Gees. As the city outside got pummeled with snow, progressive trio The Bad Plus opened its four-night stint at Jazz at the Bistro Wednesday with a set of...
Posted Jan 7th, 2010
The Bad Plus/ Jason Moran make NPR's top 50 albums...
Supplied by: NPR Contributing writer: Patrick Jarenwattananon, These Are the Vistas Artist: The Bad Plus Song: Smells Like Teen Spirit The fact that most everybody in the stratified jazz world was talking about this record in 2003 is evidence enough...
Posted Jan 4th, 2010
Interview: Bad Plus Bassist Reid Anderson
From Riverfront Times By Dean Minderman The Bad Plus is known for its clever re-imaginings of songs associated with rock, pop and classical music. But when it’s show time, the critically acclaimed jazz trio favors spontaneity over calculation. “We have...
Posted Jan 3rd, 2010
The Bad Plus; "The Best Albums of 2009: 10 Peaks...
From Nydailynews.com By Jim Farber 2. The Bad Plus, “For All I Care”; Is it jazz? Rock? Classical music? The New York-based instrumental trio known as the Bad Plus have gotten a lot of attention over the years for deforming...
Posted Dec 29th, 2009
Coffee With… The Bad Plus
From Pulp Magazine By John Tucker Amplifier Magazine labeled them “the most distinctive three-piece outfit since Nirvana”; Rolling Stone called their sound “as badass as highbrow gets”; of course, I refer to Minnesota-born jazz outfit The Bad Plus. Making a...
Posted Oct 28th, 2009
Sewell + Bad Plus = Sly New Work
From Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune By Caroline Palmer The Minneapolis choreographer and the locally rooted jazz trio make for a splendid pairing. I went on Thursday night, and it was well worth the price of admission. The ‘Simple Folk’ number...
Posted Oct 18th, 2009
The Bad Plus Featured on Here and Now
Listen to the entire program here Moving Past Jazz ‘Standards’ Recently, several jazz groups have been venturing outside the great American songbook for inspiration. Here and Now’s jazz aficionado James Isaacs brings us songs by Nirvana, Wilco, Rufus Wainwright, and...
Posted Jun 15th, 2009
The Bad Plus featured as The Soft Bulletin Turns 10
The Bad Plus’ rendition of Feeling Yourself Disintegrate is featured on Stereogum as The Flaming Lips’ The Soft Bulletin turns 10 this week. You can stream this and many other tracks at stereogum.com var addthis_pub=“4a1593986290e969”;
Posted May 19th, 2009
The Bad Plus and Wendy Lewis video from The Cedar...
You can stream The Bad Plus joined by Wendy Lewis performing at the Cedar in Minneapolis on April 25th as well as interviews with the band members below. Check out 3MinuteEgg for more free videos and to help support the...
Posted May 7th, 2009
The Bad Plus' Reid Anderson interviewed on KPFK
Listen to the complete interview here (Reid begins about 1/3 of the way through).
Posted Mar 10th, 2009
The Bad Plus on NPR's JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater
The Bad Plus, Spanish Harlem Orchestra: The Shape Of Jazz To Come JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater, February 12, 2009 By Becca Pulliam Click here to listen The Bad Plus came together in the early 2000s, offering up a jazz...
Posted Feb 12th, 2009
"How Deep is Your Love" is NPR's song of the...
Listen here.NPR.org. February 9, 2009 – A ghostly bass plucks out notes that tremble with foreboding. A Steinway piano injects haunting, minor-key arpeggios. A woman chimes in, her voice seemingly filtered through gauze. It’s natural to expect a song of...
Posted Feb 11th, 2009
"For All I Care" released today!
Alt-Rock vocalist Wendy Lewis joins the progressive jazz trio on For All I Care. For the better part of a decade, the progressive jazz trio known as The Bad Plus have been stirring up a musical stew that defies easy...
Posted Feb 3rd, 2009
The Bad Plus to appear on Conan Friday May 30
In case you missed it the first time – The Bad Plus will perform on Late Night with Conan O’Brien on Friday night, May 30th.
Posted May 21st, 2008
The Bad Plus to perform on Conan Fri 3/14
The Bad Plus will perform on Late Night with Conan O’Brien on Friday night, March 14th.
Posted Mar 13th, 2008
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On Sacred Ground: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
For over a decade, The Bad Plus have thrived at the intersection of jazz, indie rock and contemporary classical music. On Sacred Ground: Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, is the group’s most ambitious project yet; a multimedia re-imagining of Stravinsky’s iconic work. Co-commissioned by Duke Performances and Lincoln Center, the group’s “ferocious re-scoring” was met with immediate and widespread critical acclaim. Not interested in using “The Rite” as simply as a vehicle for improvisation, the trio engaged in a rigorous study of the original composition before beginning to craft their own interpretation. The brilliant transformation proves there are still vital lessons to be learned from the piece that caused a riot at its Paris premiere nearly 100 years ago.
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REVIEWS
By any standard, jazz or otherwise, it is moving, mighty music…bad to the bone, hot players with hard-rock hearts.
Rolling Stone
The Bad Plus are the Coen brothers of jazz: Midwesterners, both ironic and dead earnest, technically brilliant, beyond versatile, a little chilly sometimes, but funny, surprising, and pretty hard to pin down.
The New Yorker
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