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Live Review

Atlanta Jazz Festival 2018

Read "Atlanta Jazz Festival 2018" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan

Atlanta Jazz Festival Atlanta, GA May 26-27, 2018 The Atlanta Jazz Festival prides itself on being one of the largest free jazz festivals in the United States. The 41st edition took place under a forbidding forecast of heavy rainstorms: the event announcements made a big point of stating that the festival was a “rain or shine" event. In the end the weather largely held--with the exception of a couple of brief showers on Saturday afternoon--and if ...

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Album Review

The Bad Plus: Never Stop II

Read "Never Stop II" reviewed by Samuel Stroup

by Samuel Stroup

Armed with a new pianist and eight solid original tunes (plus two original bonus tracks), The Bad Plus prove that being a working, cohesive band is what's most important to them. Their 13th album, Never Stop II, sees a triumphant return of the seasoned piano trio, after the relatively graceful departure of their long-time pianist Ethan Iverson and their less graceful previous album, It's Hard (Okeh/Sony Masterworks, 2016), of all cover songs. On the Never Stop II, The ...

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Album Review

The Bad Plus: It's Hard

Read "It's Hard" reviewed by Luca Canini

by Luca Canini

Bellino. Con un paio di cose decisamente riuscite. Ma che pochissimo aggiunge (e nulla toglie) a quel che i Bad Plus hanno detto, confermato e ribadito nel corso di quindici anni di più che onorata carriera. Fine della recensione. Nel senso che quel che leggerete da qui in poi potrebbe esservi utile nel caso in cui siate curiosi di dare una forma più compiuta a quanto sopra esposto o, nella malaugurata eventualità che non vi sia mai capitato di imbattervi ...

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The Bad Plus & Joshua Redman at the Michigan Theater

Read "The Bad Plus & Joshua Redman at the Michigan Theater" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan

by C. Andrew Hovan

The Bad Plus & Joshua Redman The Michigan Theater Ann Arbor, Michigan April 23, 2016 Over the course of some twenty years, The Bad Plus has honed its own brand of music making, tapping into a plethora of styles and grooves to develop their own musical hybrid. Pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson, and drummer Dave King know how to push the envelope with their repertoire of original material and crafty alterations of material ranging ...

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Live Review

50° Jazzaldia

Read "50° Jazzaldia" reviewed by Luca Vitali

by Luca Vitali

"Oltre 124.000 spettatori e più di cento spettacoli in programma a fronte di un eccellente livello artistico," sottolinea il comunicato stampa di chiusura di questa cinquantesima edizione di Jazzaldia -Heineken Jazz Festival. Come dargli torto. Uno dei grandi festival europei mantiene caratteristiche da festival “municipale," sempre attento al grande pubblico ma al tempo stesso capace di osare, senza troppi timori. L'ultima volta che c'ero stato, nel 2012, avevo avuto la fortuna di assistere a concerti imperdibili come ...

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Album Review

The Bad Plus: The Rite of Spring

Read "The Rite of Spring" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Dall'anno della sua tumultuosa prima parigina è passato un secolo e un anno. Da allora la Sagra della primavera di Igor Stravinsky ha attraversato i decenni continuando a dialogare con le musiche che l'hanno seguita. Il rapporto di questo capolavoro con il jazz--musica che, si sa, riveste una particolare importanza nella vita di Stravinsky, sebbene a partire da data posteriore a quella di composizione della Sagra --passa attraverso curiosi abbinamenti e riletture, cui si aggiunge ultimamente ...

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Extended Analysis

The Bad Plus: The Rite Of Spring

Read "The Bad Plus: The Rite Of Spring" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Calculation and risk, bombast and glory, a complete shunning of expectations, and a penchant for the provocative, percussive and dramatic. It's hard to know if that description is meant to be applied to Igor Stravinsky's most heralded work or the collectively-operated trio known as The Bad Plus; it's hard to make that distinction because it rings true for both. One hundred years separate the premiere of The Rite Of Spring, which caused a riot, and the recording ...

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