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Dave King: We do music, so we know music
by Ben Scholz
Ever the emphatic artist, drummer Dave King is most famous as a founding member of the contemporary trio The Bad Plus. Rooted in jazz, The Bad Plus has taken creative music to a new abstract height, examining reinterpretations of works by artists as diverse as Stravinsky, Nirvana and Tears for Fears. However, his re-definition of a ...
Dave King Trucking Company: Good Old Light
by Troy Collins
Branching out from his duties in The Bad Plus and Happy Apple, drummer Dave King formed the Dave King Trucking Company to explore a highly personalized take on Americana that he describes as “if the great Nashville bands of the '60s and '70s could improvise and were Coltrane fanatics." Building on this idea, King and company ...
Undead Jazz Festival: Day 1, June 23, 2011
by Daniel Lehner
Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 Undead Jazz FestivalNew York, New YorkJune 23-26, 2011 If 2010's Undead Jazz Festival were the first installment in a series of zombie films, then the first day of the 2011 season was a sequel picking up where ...
Undead Jazz Festival: Kenny's Castaways Edition
by Daniel Lehner
Every zombie film fan knows that being bitten by a creature of the night is a fate worse than death. The only cure is to have a member of your party load up a shotgun and take you out before you turn into a limping, brain-hungry shell of a person. So giving an event a header ...
Happy Apple Back on Top
By Happy Apple
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: The New Bison; Very Small Rock; 1996 A.D.; Rise! Marc Anthony; Calgon For Hetfield; Lefse Los Cubanos; He's O.K.; Brown Lights; Hence the Turtleneck; Most Popular to Succeed; Density in Dan's Fan City.
Happy Apple: Happy Apple Back on Top
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
Before becoming synonymous with self-indulgent excess--or worse, smoothed-out pap--fusion offered the excitement of joining jazz improvisation and harmonic sophistication with rock energy and driving rhythms. Though they may not self-identify with fusion, a growing number of musicians raised on both rock and jazz feel no compunction in drawing influences from and blending both. One such group ...
The Peace Between Our Companies
By Happy Apple
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: 1. Starchild cranium 2. Freelance robotics 3. Paulie's quick temper has gotten him into a few jams 4. Let's not reflect 5. Dojo fantastique 6. See sun spot run 7. Ella by nightlight 8. Go base 13
Happy Apple: The Peace Between Our Companies
by James Taylor
Minneapolis-based Happy Apple is big in the Midwestern United States and Europe--the rest of the world, particularly other parts of America, is sadly still sleeping on the powerful jazz/rock/improv group. Featuring bassist Erik Fratzke, David King (who also handles percussion duties in Happy Apple cohorts and Columbia Records recording artists The Bad Plus) and Michael Lewis ...
Youth Oriented
By Happy Apple
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Youth Oriented
2. Green Grass Stains on Wrangler Jeans
3. The Landfill Planetarium
4. Salmon Jump Suit
5. Drama Section
6. The Treetops of a Bad Neighborhood
7. It Will Be
8. Creme de Menthe Quasar
9. Youth Oriented
Happy Apple: Youth Oriented
by Paul Abella
Jazz needs albums like this. Youth Oriented eschews everything that we usually associate with the jazz couture and replaces it with pop culture motifs. The cover art reminds one of the angst ridden, whiny boy images favored by Korn or Limp Bizkit. The song titles seem like Frank Zappa cast-offs. The first sound you hear on ...
