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Lana Del Rey, Mikal Cronin, The Bad Plus: this week's new live music
Mixing classical music, improv, jagged funk, famous pop songs and affectionately non-ironic bursts of old-school swing, The Bad Plus have become one of the most popular piano trios in contemporary music over the past decade. On this UK tour, they're likely from Guardian Unlimited Read more »
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Review: Brad Mehldau, the Bad Plus push jazz further ahead at UCLA
with an acrobatic barrage of fireworks behind him, goading Redman to push further ahead or be overtaken. From there, the Bad Plus (plus one) roared as if a quartet were always lying just beneath its surface. Although the trio was considered a controversial from Los Angeles Times Read more »
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Stream The Jamie Breiwick Quartet's Neo-Bop Album, "Spirits"
since The Bad Plus attracted way more attention than most of their contemporaries could ever dream of over a decade ago with their cover of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," the unexpected cover has been the surest way for a jazz act to garner buzz outside from Express Milwaukee Read more »
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Critic's Pick: The Bad Plus and Brad Mehldau to meet at UCLA
There was also his recent run of shows with the Punch Brothers' mandolinist, Chris Thile. In the other? the members of the Bad Plus, who also raised eyebrows early in their careers with a vigorously broad taste in covers, including songs by Blondie, the Pixies from Los Angeles Times Read more »
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Ethan Iverson – review
and prefacing the return of the theme with a threatening low-note rumble. The temperature rose further with a roaring Bad Plus-like account of You Go to My Head, a lurching, rhythm-warped Tea for Two (with a fine improvisation from Lasserson, sharply alert from The Guardian Music Read more »
