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The Bad Plus: Prog

Read "Prog" reviewed by Troy Collins


Free from the confines of major label machinery, The Bad Plus returns to its independent roots fully rejuvenated with Prog, its fifth studio album and first on its own Do The Math imprint (distributed by Heads Up). Although a three-album tenure on Columbia Records brought The Bad Plus far greater recognition than its self-titled 2001 debut ...

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Big Eater

Featuring the music of The Bad Plus
Duration: 5:28

The Bad Plus performs "Big Eater" at the Knitting Factory. June 4th, 2005.
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The Bad Plus: Suspicious Activity?

Read "Suspicious Activity?" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Jazz o non jazz, i Bad Plus sono un trio che suona il jazz come se suonasse il rock. Un bassista che spara bordate come se stesse al fronte, un batterista che spacca in due il ritmo, un pianista virtuoso ed elegante che cita prima Satie e l'avanguardia per poi mettere tutto in discussione con un ...

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Suspicious Activity?

Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Prehensile Dream; Anthem for the Earnest; Let Our Garden Grow; The Empire Strikes Backwards; Knows the Difference; Lost of Love; Rhinoceros Is My Profession; O.G. (Original Gentleman); (Theme from) Chariots of Fire; Forces.

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Blunt Object: Live in Tokyo

Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: We Are The Champions (Queen), And Here We Test Our Powers of Observation, Guilty, Do Your Sums-Die Like A Dog-Play for Home, Heart of Glass, Flim, Silence is the Question, My Funny Valentine.

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The Bad Plus: Suspicious Activity?

Read "Suspicious Activity?" reviewed by Brian P. Lonergan


The Bad Plus is nothing if not confounding. The trio exalts in ambiguity and delights in dodging definition. Its music at once conveys affected irony and honest intelligence, melodrama and real poignancy. It resists interpretation. But one thing is for certain: the Bad Plus has created one of the most original and unmistakable sounds in contemporary ...

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Article: Live Review

Suspicious Activity Indeed: The Bad Plus Live

Read "Suspicious Activity Indeed: The Bad Plus Live" reviewed by Doug Collette


Irreverent and eccentric, The Bad Plus are a bundle of nervous energy when they play. Yet as this ever-so-intimate venue in the Green Mountains of Vermont, the trio entranced rather than repel by dint of their humor and imagination, not to mention just enough conventionalism to make their quirks that much more effective. The early ...

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The Bad Plus: Blunt Object: Live in Tokyo

Read "Blunt Object: Live in Tokyo" reviewed by Matt Merewitz


A turbulent foray into experimental terrain recorded live at the Blue Note in Tokyo, bassist Reid Anderson, pianist Ethan Iverson, and drummer David King, who together make up the The Bad Plus, explore a plethora of styles on their third Columbia release Blunt Object: Live In Tokyo. It is most certainly their most inventive, risk-taking session ...

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The Bad Plus

Label: Fresh Sound New Talent
Released: 2004
Track listing: Knowing Me Knowing You; Blue Moon; 1972 Bronze Medalist; The Breakout; Smells Like Teen Spirit; Labyrinth; Scurry; Love Is The Answer.

Album

Give

Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1979 Semi-Finalist; Cheney Piata; Street Woman; And Here We Test Our Powers Of Observation; Frog And Toad; Velouria; Layin A Strip For the Higher-Self State Line; Do Your Sums-die Like a Dog Play For Home; Dirty blonde; Neptune (The Planet); Iron Man.


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