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The Bad Plus are a U.S. jazz piano trio consisting of pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson, and drummer Dave King. Anderson and King are originally from Minnesota, and Iverson is from neighboring Wisconsin. King is also part of the Minnesota-based groups Halloween, Alaska, Happy Apple, and Love-Cars.
The three musicians first played together in 1989, but didn’t come together as an established act until 2000. Perhaps to make up for lost time, they proceeded to record their first album, a self-titled effort released on Fresh Sound, after playing only three gigs together. In 2002, after playing a show at the Village Vanguard which was heard by Columbia Records representative Yves Beauvais, the band was signed to Columbia. They released their major label debut, These Are The Vistas, in 2003, and followed it up with Give in 2004 and Suspicious Activity? in 2005. Also in 2005, a live disc - Blunt Object: Live In Tokyo - was released. The band went into the studio again in September 2006 to record Prog, released in May 2007.
The trio’s music combines elements of traditional and free jazz with rock and pop influences; These Are The Vistas included a version of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” and “Flim” by Aphex Twin. Give contains covers of tunes by the Pixies and Black Sabbath, while Suspicious Activity contains a cover of the theme from Chariots of Fire. Prog contains a cover of Rush’s “Tom Sawyer”.
The three musicians first played together in 1989, but didn’t come together as an established act until 2000. Perhaps to make up for lost time, they proceeded to record their first album, a self-titled effort released on Fresh Sound, after playing only three gigs together. In 2002, after playing a show at the Village Vanguard which was heard by Columbia Records representative Yves Beauvais, the band was signed to Columbia. They released their major label debut, These Are The Vistas, in 2003, and followed it up with Give in 2004 and Suspicious Activity? in 2005. Also in 2005, a live disc - Blunt Object: Live In Tokyo - was released. The band went into the studio again in September 2006 to record Prog, released in May 2007.
The trio’s music combines elements of traditional and free jazz with rock and pop influences; These Are The Vistas included a version of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” and “Flim” by Aphex Twin. Give contains covers of tunes by the Pixies and Black Sabbath, while Suspicious Activity contains a cover of the theme from Chariots of Fire. Prog contains a cover of Rush’s “Tom Sawyer”.
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OctavariumTrap wrote:
Never Stop is fantastic, I'm looking forward to the next release
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bennok wrote:
How to transform "Bad Play" into hypnotic music! I love the rythmic interplay of the 3 musician, how they manage to come together again even after long acrobatic sort of complex syncopations.
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ptrmx5 wrote:
I was very lucky to have discovered this AWESOME band! So delighting music...
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Ordaz-Elojonove wrote:
The Bad Plus: Orgasm, marijuana & relax.
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LiviusPunk wrote:
Fabolous show in Locorotondo (Italy) last night!
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standupbassgirl wrote:
They played at the Halifax Jazz Festival last week and did their reconstructed commission of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring - AMAZING!
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Wrenaissance wrote:
The Aphex Twin cover caught my interest, great stuff.
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xLADYxGAGAxfAn wrote:
saw them at Duke University and was completely blown away
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MsKalyakina wrote:
awesome!)
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Diothalamus wrote:
ethan iverson has the coolest sense of harmony. he is truly "hep."
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whispymound wrote:
I love their version of flim. It's perfect! I think i prefer it to Aphex Twin's version.
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rod32lop wrote:
pure hard core! lol!
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Jhuyed wrote:
My music teacher likes this band.
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kovtunos wrote:
Ихние каверы на известные мелодии просто великолепны!
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fancygreen wrote:
Oh, Reid...
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Janketastic wrote:
They played In Stitches when i saw them Thursday night and Ethan Iverson said it's a new song, not recorded yet. They had better put that on the next album because it was INCREDIBLE
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zzzjuliazzz wrote:
like it
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soulfin wrote:
I saw them last week and they played a track called In Stitches. I cannot find it anywhere. Any Ideas?
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morenoigor wrote:
King is king
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Ragman205 wrote:
Give is awesome
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"NARC" on iTunes
8 May 2007 | from blog.myspace.com/badplus
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