Jazz Articles about Rick Simpson
About Rick Simpson
Instrument: Piano
Article Coverage | Calendar | Albums | Photos | Similar ArtistsRick Simpson: Everything All Of The Time: Kid A Revisited

by Ian Patterson
It is one thing to cover a rock song, after all, jazz musicians have been doing that since The Beatles, but few have tackled an entire album by a rock band. The target of UK pianist/composer Rick Simpson's admiration is Radiohead's Kid A (Parlophone, 2000), an album that provoked wildly divergent critical response in its day. Some lambasted the electronic-influenced follow-up to the hugely successful, hook-laden OK Computer (Parlophone, 1997) as pretentious, incoherent and alienating. Others saw it as bold, ...
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