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The Bad Plus Farewell Tour at the Cleveland Museum of Art

by C. Andrew Hovan
October 26, 2026

The Bad Plus Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH October 7, 2026 After a 26-year run, The Bad Plus are calling it quits, going out with a series of musical fireworks. Having been on the road since the spring, the group still has more than 30 shows to go, with a four-night stand at Minneapolis' Dakota over the Christmas holiday marking the finale. Gabe Pollack, director of performing arts at the ...

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The Bad Plus Brings Its Farewell Tour to New York's Sony Hall

by Andrew Schinder
July 2, 2026

The Bad Plus Farewell Tour Sony Hall New York, NY June 19, 2026 The Bad Plus has spent the better part of the 21st century as one of jazz's most successful crossover acts. The band, formed in Minnesota, broke through in 2003 with These are the Vistas (Columbia Records), featuring founding members Reid Anderson (bass), Dave King (drums), and Ethan Iverson (piano). Both the jazz and overall music communities bestowed quite a bit of attention to the album, ...

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The Bad Plus, James Falzone, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith And Many Others

by Lawrence Peryer
May 14, 2026

This hour moves through four decades of creative music, 1979 to 2026, with a Pacific Northwest thread running quietly underneath. The Bad Plus reimagine Nirvana, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith summons majestic Mt Baker, and James Falzone brings his mystical clarinet all alongside downtown New York no-wave (Material, Curlew, Laurie Anderson), a rare Palle Mikkelborg suite, and ECM Records elegance from Muthspiel, Colley, and Blade.Playlist Lawrence Peryer [mic break] 00:00 Emily Wittbrodt “Prelude" from Wearing Words (Futura Resistenza) 00:45 Palle ...

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Improvising the Russian Classical Composers: Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev

by Larry Slater
February 13, 2026

In the 19th century, Russian composers created timeless melodic works ripe for jazz interpretation. The 20th century in Russia ushered in decades of experimentation and revolutionary musical ideas.Prokofiev's output ranged from lyrical compositions to experimental avant-garde works. In this hour, you'll hear jazz interpretations of Prokofiev from Jo-Yu Chen, Peter Beets and Oliver Nelson. Rachmaninoff wrote music in the romantic tradition with jazz interpretations from Eddie Higgins and Freddie Hubbard. Igor Stravinsky revolutionized 20th-century music and is widely ...

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The Bad Plus at The Hamilton Live

by Robert Bellafiore
November 12, 2025

The Bad Plus The Hamilton Live Washington, DC November 9, 2025 The ancient paradox known as the Ship of Theseus poses a philosophical riddle: if every piece of a ship is gradually replaced until no original components remain, is it still the same ship, or has it transformed into something else entirely? Is a thing defined by its collective parts, or by some deeper essence? This is the question raised by The Bad ...

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The Bad Plus at Jazz Alley

by Paul Rauch
May 16, 2025

The Bad Plus Jazz Alley Seattle, Washington May 13, 2025 The Bad Plus is a band, and a successful brand in the music world. They have a litany of successful recording and performance credits to their history, achieving amazing success while employing an approach to jazz that is perhaps odd and certainly uncompromising. Beginning in 2000 as a piano trio, bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King teamed with pianist Ethan Iverson, largely ...

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The Bad Plus at Bop Stop

by John Chacona
February 14, 2025

The Bad PlusBOP STOP at the Music SettlementCleveland, OHFebruary 7, 2025 Teachers of jazz--the good ones, at least--emphasize the importance of finding an individual sound. That goes for ensembles, too, and at their Friday appearance at Cleveland's Bop Stop, The Bad Plus demonstrated how, even with a radical overhauling of personnel and instrumentation, it can be done. For two decades, The Bad Plus brandished what might have been the most distinctive piano trio ...