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The Bad Plus: Drama, Joy, Humor, But Not Irony

by Paul Olson
September 17, 2007

If you had the remotest interest in contemporary jazz music in 2003, the chances were very, very high that you had heard of The Bad Plus. The odds were just as good that you had an opinion, positive or negative, about the merits of the collective trio of bassist Reid Anderson, drummer David King and pianist Ethan Iverson.The band was everywhere that year. Here was an acoustic instrumental trio with a heavily promoted recording on Columbia Records, no ...