Jazz Articles about Ethan Iverson

About Ethan Iverson

Album Review

Ethan Iverson & Umbria Jazz Orchestra: Bud Powell in the 21st Century

Read "Bud Powell in the 21st Century" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
April 1, 2021

Da quando ha lasciato The Bad Plus l'attività di Ethan Iverson s'è sviluppata in più direzioni, passando da lavori strumentali in duo (con Mark Turner: Temporary Kings ECM 2018) o in quartetto (Common Practice ECM 2019) ad opere estese come il concerto per pianoforte con l'American Composers Orchestra (Concerto to Scale). Tra le altre cose ha curato una celebrazione di Thelonious Monk alla Duke University e scritto la colonna sonora per Pepperland, l'opera sui Beatles del coreografo Mark Morris.

Live Review

L'integrale per pianoforte di Ligeti a Bologna

by Libero Farnè
March 6, 2019

Musica Insieme Contemporanea Oratorio di San Filippo Neri Bologna 28.2.2019 È seducente l'immagine del manifesto di MICO 2019: semplice, ma satura, allusiva, giocosa. Al centro di uno sfondo rosso è inquadrato un piccolo pianoforte-giocattolo altrettanto rosso, come quelli che fanno parte dell'armamentario di strumentini e oggetti accessori vari nelle solo performance di Fabrizio Puglisi o di altri pianisti improvvisatori. L'immagine rappresenta adeguatamente il tema e lo spirito della quattordicesima edizione della rassegna ...

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Live Review

Ethan Iverson/Larry Grenadier/Paul Motian at the Village Vanguard on March 3, 2011

by Warren Allen
March 23, 2011

Ethan Iverson / Larry Grenadier / Paul MotianThe Village VanguardNew York, NYMarch 3, 2011 The press that followed the rise of The Bad Plus rocked jazz's slightly dusty seismometer. And with it, pianist Ethan Iversion rose to the forefront of the jazz piano world for his heart-pounding work in the Plus' Prog-jazz aesthetic. Yet, at his core, Iverson is a powerful player who mixes cracks of atonality with a stately lyricism that draws broadly ...

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Live Review

Higher Standards: Ethan Iverson Trio at Smalls

by Eric Benson
April 2, 2009

Ethan Iverson Trio, with Ben Street and Albert “Tootie" HeathSmalls New York, NY March 23, 2009 In the final scene of the film Big Night, the manager of an Italian restaurant played by Stanley Tucci makes a plain three-egg omelette--no cheese, no onions or peppers, just a little olive oil and three brown eggs. The night before, Tucci's restaurant had hosted a feast of pasta towers, suckling pig, and mounds of risotto--pull-out-the-stops dishes ...

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Ethan Iverson: Roll Call

by AAJ Staff
September 3, 2005

By Ethan Iverson This is my tribute to musicians who are no longer with us but that I managed to see perform. Their names are in bold. I spent my first night in New York City at the Village Vanguard. It was August 1991, I was 18 years old and Ed Blackwell was in Joe Lovano's quintet with Tom Harrell, John Abercrombie and Rufus Reid. As good as all the records are, there is ...