Search results for "Ethan Iverson"

The Bad Plus: Smells Like Teen Spirit (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

The Bad Plus has not exactly lived up to the hype of being the Band That Will Save Jazz, but these guys have showed u...

The Bad Plus: Heart of Glass (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music August 06, 08

The Bad Plus has garnered much attention for their unpredictable covers, though too often because critics unfortunate...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE NEW STANDARDS

Jazz musicians have always used popular music for improvisational vehicles. Songs from Broadway, Tin Pan Alley, eve...

The Bad Plus: Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 06, 08

The Bad Plus exhibit their softer side on their cover of Tears for Fears' 1985 Brit-pop smash "Everybody Wants to Rul...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: THE NEW STANDARDS

Jazz musicians have always used popular music for improvisational vehicles. Songs from Broadway, Tin Pan Alley, eve...

The Bad Plus (with Wendy Lewis): Lithium (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music January 23, 09

If the jazz world were a fancy party, The Bad Plus would be the unruly people who just crashed the gate. And they've...

The Bad Plus: Human Behavior (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music September 21, 09

The Bad Plus’s arrangement of “Human Behavior,” recorded during the same 2005 sessions that yielded the group’s Suspi...

The Bad Plus: This Guy's In Love With You (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music December 21, 07

Cocktail lounge music from hell? No, it's just The Bad Plus playing games with a song that is best kept locked insid...

Jelly Roll Morton: Grandpa's Spells (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 12, 09

This was recorded after “Keep Off the Grass,” but it was reportedly composed a decade earlier. (At any rate, Morton ...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ETHAN IVERSON ON STRIDE PIANO

Editor's Note: Music fans, jazz-oriented or otherwise, may know Ethan Iverson solely as the pianist in The Bad Plus—t...

Iverson, Ethan (Andrew) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Iverson, Ethan (Andrew), piano; b. Menomonie, WI, 11 February 1973. He won a Young Talent award from the IAJE in 1990...

Who Cares About Old Jazz? posted in The Jazz.com Blog June 03, 09

Ethan Iverson has spurred an interesting web debate on how well younger musicians know the jazz tradition. He rece...

THE DOZENS posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 01, 07

In African-American tradition, "the dozens" is an informal exchange filled with ribaldry, taunting and clever put dow...

In Conversation with Fred Hersch posted in Features and Interviews May 19, 09

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Reid Anderson: Prehensile Dream (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music March 11, 09

It's easy to overlook Reid Anderson in The Bad Plus. Ethan Iverson is most often the lead voice, both with his piano ...

The Bad Plus in Washington, DC posted in The Jazz.com Blog March 29, 09

David Tenenholtz recently reported here on a Duke Ellington tribute concert and Benny Golson’s 80 birthday gala. ...

James P.'s Last Rent Party posted in The Jazz.com Blog October 06, 09

I can't remember the last time pre-WW2 jazz created such a buzz. But the Last Rent Party is the talk of the town. A...

Williams, Jeff (Jeffrey Lawrence) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Williams, Jeff (Jeffrey Lawrence), drummer, composer, b. Mount Vernon, OH, 6 July 1950.  His mother is Ann Willi...

In Conversation with The Bad Plus posted in Features and Interviews October 28, 08

By Stuart Nicholson When The Bad Plus’s major label debut These are the Vistas was released in 2003, it stirr...

The Best of the Dozens posted in The Jazz.com Blog March 26, 09

Today jazz.com publishes the latest installment of its regular feature The Dozens. This article, written by S. Victo...

Breaking Jazz News & Interesting Links: April 2009 posted in Miscellaneous Pages May 01, 09

New Yorkers ride 1939-era A Train to celebrate Ellington's birthday But were the fares set at 1939 price...

Berne, Tim (Bruce Timothy) posted in Encyclopedia June 17, 09

Alto and baritone saxophonist Tim Berne combines influences from avant-garde jazz, modern classical music, rhythm 'n'...

Breaking Jazz News & Opinion: June 2009 posted in Miscellaneous Pages July 03, 09

Anat Cohen plays Benny Goodman Josh Jackson reports from A Blog Supreme. 50,000 show ...

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