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 | | Jazz + Metal x Innovation = The Bad Plus : The Bad Plus are a band that most people should listen to, but never will. | | | There's a lot of hype surrounding the group about their covers of hard rock songs, but in fact, about 2/3 of the tracks on this CD are brilliant original compositions... | | | For starters, Midwestern piano trio the Bad Vistas. |
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| | Profiles Reid Anderson (The Bad Plus) Tomajazz |
| | The first one - simply called "The Bad Plus" - was recorded for the Barcelona´s label "Fresh Sound" (FSNT - 107 CD). | | | R.A: The Bad Plus is a full time band. | | | Q: Although it has practically disappeared from the official dossier of the group, you recorded a previous disk to “These are the Vistas” for the Barcelona´s label “Fresh Sound New Talent”. |
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| | Metroactive Music Bad Plus |
| | On the surface, the Bad Plus is an acoustic trio of highly trained and accomplished jazz musicians, but the Bad Plus shatters any preconceived notions of what jazz is supposed to sound like. | | | King thinks that the Bad Plus' approach to improvisation along that continuum is a perfect extension of the jazz's original syncretic philosophy. | | | When the Bad Plus revived the four chord wonder that is "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on their 2003 release, These Are Vistas, the entire jazz press had kittens. |
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http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/06.01.05/bad-plus-0522.html
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| | New Winnipeg : Review - The Bad Plus |
| | Here is another visual for you: closing my eyes while listening to Bad Plus perform the manic free jazz of Ornette Coleman's "Street Woman" during their encore, a bizarre but fitting image came to mind. | | | As I'm sitting here writing this, my headphones are firmly planted and I'm listening to The Bad Plus' 2003 album, These are the Vistas. | | | The song would draw some of the loudest applause of the night, with younger members of the crowd noticeably impressed by the reworking of a difficult electronic track. |
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http://www.newwinnipeg.com/culture/2004/06-24bad-plus.htm
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| | village voice > music > The Bad Plus's Suspicious Activity? by Francis Davis |
| | This levity, which links the Plus to the late, lamented Microscopic Septet and gives them more in common with Fountains of Wayne and They Might Be Giants than with any of the bands they've covered, reveals itself in their presentation as well as in their music. | | | I tend to doubt it, though: Amazon says that customers for the Bad Plus have also purchased CDs by Jason Moran, Dave Douglas, and Bill Frisell, which suggests to me that these are jazz fans who define jazz broadly. | | | Bley was the first to adapt Ornette's rubato to piano in the 1960s, when Carla Bley and then Annette Peacock supplied him with strong melodies that granted bass and drums equal voice with piano by not dictating tempo. |
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http://www.villagevoice.com/music/0540,davis2,68481,22.html
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| | RollingStone.com: Give : The Bad Plus : Review |
| | On Give, their third album, the Bad Plus triumphantly bag truly extreme game: the roiling guitar noir of the Pixies' "Velouria" and Black Sabbath's death-fuzz march "Iron Man." In the former, Iverson's piano tiptoes into earshot as cymbals and bells rise up around him like steam. | | | But King rolls across his kit with volcanic ecstasy, and at the end, the Bad Plus veer from minor-key holocaust to major-key sunshine: Ozzy as the Prince of Light. | | | By jazz-purist standards, the Bad Plus are piano-trio gangstas, playing heretical covers of Abba, Blondie and Nirvana with titanic perversity. |
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http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/5153933
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| | Eye - The Bad Plus - 06.24.04 |
| | The Bad Plus' version of "Iron Man" features two pianos (played simultaneously) and is nearly as majestic as the original. | | | The Bad Plus play The Toronto Star Main Stage at Nathan Phillips Square July 3 with the Gary Burton Generations Quintet as part of the TD Canada Trust Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival. | | | The equation held true during the late '70s and early '80s, when noodly records by Spyro Gyra made a risible hash of jazz and rock. |
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http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_06.24.04/music/meet.html
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| | The Bad Plus - Give sputnikmusic |
| | On their debut, there is a simple statement: “The Bad Plus is a power trio.” But this is not enough to define a band that adds Zappa-esque humour into a music that has obvious elements of free jazz, rock, country, disco, pop
and the list goes on. | | | The Bad Plus version of the song is much more slower; and in my opinion, more rocking, more of a head-banger. | | | The idea of a jazz trio covering possibly the most overrated song of the 90’s (and that is, Smells Like Teen Spirit) was quite appaling for a listener like me, who was trying to find easy ways to get into jazz music at that time. |
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| | Jazz Goes Pop / The Bad Plus unleash a sonic assault on pop-cover-version protocol |
| | Until the Bad Plus came along, playing jazz versions of contemporary pop songs rarely sounded as radical in fact as it did in theory. | | | The Bad Plus hold nothing back in their sonic assault on rhythm, melody and harmony, whether borrowed or new. | | | First playing together as long ago as 1990, Anderson, Iverson and King released their debut self-titled album as the Bad Plus in 2001 and followed it with Authorized Bootleg before signing with Columbia Records. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2004/04/08/derk.DTL
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| | billbeuttler.com - The Bad Plus is worth all the fuss |
| | The Bad Plus is a band of equals, but Anderson announced all the tunes, and he did so with charmingly droll wit. | | | The Bad Plus and its CD "These Are the Vistas" made a lot of year-end 2003 best-of lists — from the jazz press mainstays Down Beat and Jazz Times to Rolling Stone and The New Yorker. | | | Among the tunes that followed were a couple of new ones by King ("Layin' a Strip for the Higher-Self State Line" was particularly crowd-pleasing) and a cover of Ornette Coleman's "Street Woman," a version of which will appear on the band's next CD, "Give," due out in March. |
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| | Variety.com - Reviews - The Bad Plus |
| | Jazz is in desperate need of bands like the Bad Plus whose secret is in the approach: For too long, the idea of combining pop or rock with jazz has meant electric instruments and a back beat. | | | For more than three years, the Bad Plus has been bringing a rock 'n' roll mindset to the jazz piano trio format, playing music that broods, grinds and strives for a consistent intensity. | | | Band, currently touring on its second Columbia disc "Give," is a shock to the system, in repertoire and attack. |
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http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117923626?categoryid=34&cs=1
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| | Bad Plus Music CDs at Songsearch.com |
| | Bad Plus Music CDs, DVD Movies, Music Videos, Songs, and Song Titles | | | Bad Plus - These Are The Vistas (Plus Bonus Track) | | | Japanese Pressing Of The Jazz Band's 2004 Album Includes The Bonus Track, 'every Breath You Take'. |
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| | the bad plus. ~ blog ~ thelocust dot org |
| | In the meantime, listen to NPR's All Songs Considered In-Studio with The Bad Plus. | | | The Bad Plus is billed as "jazz with a rock soul", and are credited with "single handedly making jazz relevant again". | | | Having listened to the samples of These are the Vistas, I can say that that track stands by itself as an interesting deconstruction, but the samples I heard for "1972 Bronze Medalist" and "Flim" tell me that they are deeper than that. |
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| | The Bad Plus: Give: Pitchfork Review |
| | Never mind that the Old Man confused the album title with the bandname, and introduced The Bad Plus to me as "The Vistas, or something"; I was impressed by his ear for new music. | | | I first heard The Bad Plus' breakthrough major label debut, These Are the Vistas, before reading Stuart Nicholson's article in Jazz Times, which called the record "one of the most important... | | | While a good cover will merely testify to the greatness of the original, a great one will invade the memory of its elder and stamp a new identity in the listener's mind. |
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| | BBC - Jazz Review - The Bad Plus, Give |
| | They are the Bad Plus and they show that piano trios are alive, well and kicking out the jams. | | | The Bad Plus play jazz with the oomph of a rock band. | | | I'm not usually a Jazz listener but the Bad Plus album 'Give' has got me wanting more so I bought the earlier album 'These are the Vistas' and I think its even better than ‘Give’ |
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| | The Bad Plus - Boo-Wah - Last.fm |
| | Of all 3,662 people that have listened to songs by The Bad Plus, this represents 18.7%. | | | 684 people have listened to Boo-Wah by The Bad Plus. | | | Music > The Bad Plus > Live in New Morning 2003 > Boo-Wah |
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| | WNYC - New Sounds: Jazz Plus... (March 21, 2005) |
| | Jazz plus trip-hop, jazz plus musical theatre, and even jazz plus funk, rock, electronica, pop, and everything else are offered up on this New Sounds program, “Jazz Plus.” Hear music from Club D’elf, who mix trip-hop and electronica with their improvisational jazz. | | | Also, listen to the inimitable trio, The Bad Plus, who bring classical, rock, and pop into their jazz. | | | Plus, music from Brian Woodbury, Ken Schaphorst, and something from the Mark Anthony Turnage project of re-imagined John Scofield themes, “Scorched.” |
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| | The Bad Plus - Blunt Object Live In Tokyo (Columbia) - MusicRemedy.com, Brings Music to Life |
| | Arguably one of the biggest jazz breakout stories of 2003, The Bad Plus--Reid Anderson (bass), Ethan Iverson (piano), and David King (drums)--connected with the jazz world and beyond with These Are The Vistas, the renegade trio's debut on Columbia Records. | | | The Bad Plus, the renegade jazz trio, will release Blunt Object Live In Tokyo, the group's eagerly-awaited live concert recording and first new offering since last year's critically-acclaimed Give. | | | Rounding out Give are the covers: "Iron Man," "Velouria," and "Street Woman"--from Ornette Coleman's immortal Science Fiction album, a favorite recording of all three Bad Plus members. |
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| | Plus they do an Abba cover, and everyone knows that listening to Abba's Greatest Hits whilst cleaning up is practically the only way to clean up. | | | Not only did I listen to your precious Brad Mehldau, I listened to The Bad Plus, too. | | | So musically, The Bad Plus are not so bad. |
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| | DISCORDER The Bad Plus |
| | Following the release of their major label debut These are the Vistas, (their first self–titled album was released on Spanish label Fresh Sound) the Bad Plus received heavy acclaim in both jazz and rock publications, acquiring such labels as “piano trio gangstas” and “post modern jazz iconoclasts.” The group take their press in stride, however. | | | While the group feels that their studio albums reflect their live sound (almost every track on Give was recorded on the first take, with as few overdubs as possible), an “authorized bootleg” was released in 2002. | | | Luckily for you, The Bad Plus are playing twice during the Vancouver International Jazz Festival. |
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| | Ink 19 :: The Bad Plus |
| | The Bad Plus are consistently spectacular, weaving their intricate musical plots and storylines together into an almost overwhelming cascade of ideas. | | | Straddling the line between exuberant hipness and studious methodology, The Bad Plus bring a fresh scent to the world of fusion, that strange hybrid of rock and jazz that seems to stagnate with surprising frequency. | | | The other cover on here, Sabbath's "Iron Man," is the only clunker on this whole disc -- not that it's bad, mind you, just that by the time it arrives at the end of the album, it comes across as a stab at irony that doesn't measure up to the rest of the material. |
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| | The Bad Plus biography : albums : icebergradio.com |
| | It was a particularly memorable performance at New York's Village Vanguard that led Columbia Records to sign the Bad Plus; in February of 2003, the label released These Are the Vistas which was produced by stranger-to-jazz and ex-Latin Playboy Tchad Blake. | | | Are the Bad Plus a pop and rock-influenced jazz trioNULL Or are they a power trio who like to play jazzNULL It's really a bit of both. | | | Anderson released three albums on the Spanish indie Fresh Sound; Iverson was music director of New York City's prestigious Mark Morris Dance Group; and King worked with his Happy Apple combo, as well as 12 Rods. |
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| | The Bad Plus trio thrives on crafting creative covers - PittsburghLIVE.com |
| | Bassist Reid Anderson and his colleagues in The Bad Plus evidently feel so good about their music they're willing to give fans an extra dose of it. | | | Unlike so many jazz groups that focus their work on classic tunes from the American songbook, The Bad Plus concentrates on originals and rock hits such as "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath and "Velouria" by The Pixies. | | | The band's recording project would seem to reflect the same kind of freshness that shows up in its music. |
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| | The Bad Plus: Give and Take |
| | After ten years of various bands, generally living the jazz musicians 20s, the three officially formed The Bad Plus in 2000 and admittedly, in haste, put out their debut album on the Fresh Sound label recorded after only three gigs. | | | When The Bad Plus released These Are The Vistas last year on the esteemed Columbia label, it not only received expected nods from jazz writers, but pop media icons – Rolling Stone, Blender and VH1- showered their rock audiences with The Bad Plus praises. | | | The two well-garnered albums aren’t the first attempts at record longevity for The Bad Plus. |
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| | Disinformation :: The Bad Plus And The State Of Jazz |
| | Although the attacks on The Bad Plus sometimes entailed specific musical criticisms, it seemed the intent was more to swing the pendulum the other way: to answer the early praise with outright calumny. | | | '"The Bad Plus finally convinces me that the downfall of civilized humanity is upon us," said the Latin jazz drummer Bobby Sanabria last year in a Downbeat interview. | | | But Bill Frisell, the celebrated guitarist, defended them, telling Downbeat: "What they're doing is the real deal; it's what music is all about." Heated debates like these have roiled jazz at least since the emergence of bebop in the mid-1940s. |
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| | Paste Magazine :: Review :: The Bad Plus - Live at the Bowery Ballroom :: New York 3/25/04 (Page 1) |
| | Playing most of the tunes from their latest album, Give, they show off not only a keen mastery of their instruments, but also the flare, rawness and freedom of improvisation that are among the key elements of traditional jazz. | | | This album, Wilco's sophomore effort, was a huge leap forward for the band—a masterful, ambitious and eclectic double album. | | | They begin their smoking set with the tri-colored “Do Your Sums-Die Like a Dog-Play For Home,” its syncopated rhythms and slow/fast time signature keeping the audience guessing as to when it should move its collective feet, a rare site at a jazz concert. |
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| | Compare Prices and Read Reviews on These Are The Vistas - The Bad Plus at Epinions.com |
| | A couple of the tracks do slip into jazz jam land, but These Are The Vistas is a remarkable release for a new band (two of the guys have been playing together for some time, but this is their first major-label release as a trio). | | | However, The Bad Plus made me stop and wonder, "What the HECK is that?". | | | I first heard The Bad Plus at my local music store. |
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| | The Bad Plus: An acquired taste, or just bad? - Arts and Entertainment |
| | The Bad Plus states on this record that there are no edits or overdubs, which is very noteworthy because it often sounds as if there are accompanying musicians. | | | With no vocals, The Bad Plus performs intricate numbers that will most likely impress jazz enthusiasts and musicians alike. | | | As far as the average listener goes, that will be left to be determined. |
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http://www.usmfreepress.org/news/2003/04/21/ArtsAndEntertainment/The-Bad.Plus.An.Acquired.Taste.Or.Just.Bad-422102.shtml
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| | Splendid Magazine reviews The Bad Plus: These Are the Vistas |
| | Midway through, the Bad Plus allows itself a moment of jazz soloing, but a very taciturn one, in which Iverson releases an angular but tightly coiled virtuosity that never lets down the overall terseness of the approach. | | | Elsewhere, Iverson lets forth tremendous glissandi, aiming at emulating the guitar's feedback in the bridge of the song (they succeed in terms of energy, but not sound quality). | | | Let's hope that the excellent These are the Vistas is a foretaste of things to come, both from this group and from the record industry as a whole. |
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http://www.splendidezine.com/review.html?reviewid=3265468226405738
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| | The Bad Plus: These Are the Vistas: Pitchfork Review |
| | The Bad Plus is at their best when they step out of the jazz chair entirely, as on the marvelously kinetic "Big Eater", which opens the album. | | | If only they could keep up that intensity throughout, as other tunes seem either flat homages to the avant-garde ("Boo-Wah"), or small-group MOR jazz balladry ("Silence is the Question")-- though there is a download-only ballad titled "What Love is This" that's a lot more engaging than most of the ones here. | | | They released their self-titled debut in 2001 independently, and had a follow-up available last year (now out of print), recorded live at the Village Vanguard. |
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| | Jazz Police - The Bad Plus Is a Good Thing |
| | The Bad Plus is a piano trio; at least in acoustic instrumentation, it resembles the great trios of Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson and, in a more modern vernacular, Keith Jarrett. | | | The Bad Plus brings a surreal yet symphonic approach to an original and “borrowed” repertoire that features Iverson’s gorgeous, percussive piano, Anderson’s often-melodious, never laid back acoustic bass, and the incredible resume' of rhythm and sound from King’s drum menagerie, all united in the spirit of true collaboration. | | | Following their big-label, chart-topping debut CD, “These Are the Vistas,” the Bad Plus recently released an even more commanding set for Columbia, “Give.” Give it a listen! |
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| | Amazon.com: These Are the Vistas: Music |
| | The Bad Plus is the difference between free music and the work of children banging on a piano. | | | For starters, Midwestern piano trio the Bad Plus--in the same vein as Dave Douglas or Brad Mehldau--clearly know a thing or two about how to mix pop music with forward-thinking jazz. | | | Not because of the free and sometimes destructive attitude of the music; I'm used to a lot of free jazz and sound experiments; but because of the very bad playing on the album. |
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| | Blogcritics.org: The Bad Plus and Lizz Wright Live on the Radio Tonight |
| | In 2000, technically the last year of the old century, "the stars align and The Bad Plus reduces, congeals and solidifies." The initial result was the group's eponymous debut album, released on Fresh Sound, a Spanish independent label, in August 2001. | | | The roots of The Bad Plus date back to circa 1984 when Dave first heard Reid sing in a junior high school rock band showcase. | | | The Bad Plus has a cool new CD out on Columbia called These Are the Vistas. |
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| | The Bad Plus - Give - Stylus Magazine |
| | Perhaps because of their instrumental set-up, perhaps in part for their free-wheeling ways, The Bad Plus are able to shake this image cleanly with their covers of Ornette Coleman’s “Street Woman” and Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man”. | | | Cover bands aren’t often known for their personal input, but rather their ability to recreate the recorded version of a particular song. | | | It’s only too bad they can’t set a guitar on fire when they’re done. |
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| | Splendid Magazine reviews The Bad Plus: Give |
| | Pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson and drummer David King mix originals with a wide range of cover material, stretching themselves even further than the Blondie and Nirvana tunes they interpreted (or, as they say, lovingly deconstructed) on their first album. | | | On the contrary, I would suggest that the band is just finding their footing. | | | Oranger's Mike Drake talks to Jennifer Kelly about about keyboardist Patrick Main's death-defying live shtick, the band's reasons for developing a faux discography, their role in breaking up Overwhelming Colorfast, Roxy Music and... |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Give: Music |
| | Along with a new aesthetic, the Bad Plus has already begun to define a new audience, and this CD should both delight and enlarge it. | | | These Are the Vistas; Audio CD ~ The Bad Plus (Artist) | | | I have listened to this recording, and I want to review it. |
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| | The Bad Plus - The Bad Plus |
| | Our first recording, The Bad Plus, was released in the Summer of 2001 on the Fresh Sound New Talent label. | | | Three old pals from Minnesota and Wisconsin deliver a three ring circus of sound on their new CD, “The Bad Plus.”
[They] are capable of stately balladry one moment(“Labyrinth”) and raucous pop deconstruction the next (ABBA’s “Knowing Me Knowing You”). | | | Our agenda is one of passionate irreverence and we take on whatever music we please. |
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| | On the road, The Bad Plus have laid waste to a wide variety of physical structures, witnessed by audiences that vary wildly in size, shape, temperament and citizenship. | | | Since their proper formation in the year 2000, The Bad Plus have released two independent discs and two more for Sony/Columbia. | | | Not exactly a bull in a china shop, more a like a rhino in an outlet mall, The Bad Plus have spent the last few years busting up any and all preconceived notions of what an acoustic jazz trio ought to be. |
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| | NPR: All Songs Considered: The Bad Plus |
| | Critics say the band's latest CD, These Are The Vistas is "one of the freshest sounding albums of the year... | | | See the original All Songs Considered feature slideshow on The Bad Plus from February 2003. | | | The Bad Plus perform Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and explain how they went about reinventing the song. |
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| | The Bad Plus: 'Give' |
| | That's because The Bad Plus's remixes of the author's original intent start with the sheet music instead of a sound recording. | | | In fact, neither a songwriter nor a publisher nor a record company could successfully suppress The Bad Plus's derivative recordings (unless The Bad Plus failed to pay a royalty). | | | Even if Courtney Love, who owns the copyright to "Smells Like Teen Spirit," were to take six Vicodins, ten Oxies, two Xanax and a quart of pure grain alcohol and still not get how cool The Bad Plus version of that song is, she's s.o.l. |
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| | The Michigan Daily |
| | Since then, The Bad Plus has toured the world and produced two critically acclaimed albums (in addition to their self-titled 2001 debut). | | | They’ve graced the pages of Rolling Stone, appeared on National Public Radio, been hailed by Newsweek as producing one of “the freshest sounding albums of the year” and opened for The Pixies. | | | Anderson said, “Our music is constantly evolving and the new batch of music that we have has taken on a direction all its own.” The future of The Bad Plus and jazz look bright: “There are a lot of young, open-minded players,” he said, “and we’re going to see some incredible things.” |
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http://www.michigandaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/11/12/4194a3e68b506
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| | Jazz Trio The Bad Plus Releasing Live Album |
| | Jazz trio the Bad Plus will on March 15 release the concert document "Blunt Object: Live in Tokyo" via Columbia. | | | Jazz Trio The Bad Plus Releasing Live Album | | | The eight-track set finds the band running through such rock numbers as Queen's "We Are the Champions" and Blondie's "Heart of Glass," as well as a 13-minute take on the group's own "Silence Is the Answer" and an excerpt of the standard "My Funny Valentine." |
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| | The Bad Plus MP3 Downloads - The Bad Plus Music Downloads - The Bad Plus Music Videos |
| | Featuring bassist Reid Anderson, drummer David King, and pianist Ethan Iverson, the Bad Plus follow a similar creative path as on their debut, These Are the Vistas, by interspersing original compositions with covers of popular rock tunes. | | | Featuring bassist Reid Anderson, drummer David King, and pianist Ethan Iverson, the Bad Plus follow a similar creative path as on their debut, These... | | | However, fans of quirky, experimental music may find this worth a listen. |
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| | Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) : Under the covers; Jazz trio the Bad Plus dissects the famed pop and rock songs it ... |
| | The attention paid to these cover songs undersells the band's original compositions, which make up the bulk of "Vistas" and are equally dazzling. | | | Under the covers; Jazz trio the Bad Plus dissects the famed pop and rock songs it interprets.(VARIETY / FREETIME) | | | Start / S / Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) / April 04, 2003 / Under the covers; Jazz trio the Bad Plus dissects the famed pop and rock songs it interprets.(VARIETY / FREETIME) |
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| | CBS News Second Cup Café: The Bad Plus May 9, 2003 20:54:29 |
| | (CBS) Midwest trio The Bad Plus takes jazz and brings it into the 21st century with influences from dance, pop and rock. | | | Making their national television debut, pianist Ethan Iverson, upright bassist Reid Anderson, and percussionist David King perform some tunes from their new debut CD, "These Are The Vistas" on The Saturday Early Show's Second Cup Café. |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/09/earlyshow/saturday/secondcup/main553192.shtml
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| | The Bad Plus boldly moves forward - The Boston Globe |
| | The Bad Plus took its music seriously, however. | | | The set list was drawn almost entirely from the new disc, and included three tunes even newer and as yet unrecorded. | | | Iverson's pianism had a strongly classical feel to it, partly because the band eschews familiar jazz harmonies, and even his jazz influences seemed to lean more toward offbeat characters like Thelonious Monk and Cecil Taylor. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2005/10/03/the_bad_plus_boldly_moves_forward
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| | village voice > music > Farts like Coltrane solos; Bad Plus's great and noble struggle. by |
| | At their first honest-to-goodness New York rock show, the Bad Plus managed to play every song but one from their new Columbia album Give. | | | An acoustic jazz piano trio with arena rock on the brain, this band courts chaos but never loosens its grip on the wheel. | | | village voice > music > Farts like Coltrane solos; Bad Plus's great and noble struggle. |
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http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0413/sotc.php
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| | Bad Plus review |
| | The trio has a sound that is quirky but still accessible to anyone willing to give it a chance. | | | They are presented like a really weird jazz trio that does covers of trendy rock songs. |
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http://www.fmsound.net/NewReleases/Articles/Bad%20Plus/Give%20review.html
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| | speernt...this week...2004 (February - June) |
| | He sings while playing guitar, bass, and drum sounds all from one "instrument."...remarkale engineering skills, incredible creativity, and the music ain't bad either. | | | Beware; chances are they tear apart one of you favorite bands. | | | While many pop-rock albums seem to lose their flavor after a few listens, The Unicorns Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? |
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http://www.speernt.com/this_week/this_week_2004febjune.html
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