Artist.......: The Bad Plus
Album........: San Sebastian JazzAldia
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Jazz
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2010-09-05
Str.date.....: 2009-07-26
Quality......: 157kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.thebadplus.com/
track title time
1. San Sebastian JazzAldia 52:11
* Apollo (Stravinsky)
* You Are (Anderson)
* Lithium (Nirvana)
* How Deep Is Your Love (Bee Gees)
* New Year's Day (U2)
* Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd)
* Heart Of Gold (Neil Young)
Runtime 52:11
Size 58.79
Release Notes:
Are the Bad Plus a pop- and rock-influenced jazz trio? Or
are they a power trio who like to play jazz? It's really a
bit of both. But in the brave new world of postmodern
jazz, identity crises are encouraged. Reid Anderson (bass)
and David King (drums) grew up in Minnesota, while pianist
Ethan Iverson spent his formative years in Wisconsin.
Eventually, after crossing paths in such unlikely places
as high school rock showcases and tentative free jazz
performances inside upper-Midwestern diners, the three
first performed as the Bad Plus in 1990; but they would
spend the '90s embracing separate influences, each
musician developing a unique musical language that would
gestate into the Bad Plus' iconoclastic jazz template.
Anderson released three albums on the Spanish indie Fresh
Sound; Iverson was music director of New York City's
prestigious Mark Morris Dance Group; and King worked with
his Happy Apple combo, as well as 12 Rods.
In August of 2001, the trio put aside their other projects
and released The Bad Plus through Fresh Sound. It
established them as a group unafraid to stray from the
confines of jazz, but confident enough in their forays to
make them stimulating, and not simply novelties. The debut
was a critical success, garnering best-of honors from the
New York Times and Chicago Reader, among others. An
"official" bootleg followed in 2002, eventually going out
of print. It was a particularly memorable performance at
New York's Village Vanguard that led Columbia Records to
sign the Bad Plus; in February of 2003, the label released
These Are the Vistas which was produced by
stranger-to-jazz and ex-Latin Playboy Tchad Blake. The
album presented original compositions from each musician,
as well as a few ringers from the musical world outside
the borders of jazz. Their re-imaginations of "Smells Like
Teen Spirit" (which Iverson had reportedly never heard
before), Blondie's "Heart of Glass," and Aphex Twin's
"Flim" caused tails to wag, but it was the trio's powerful
mixture of personality and performance that really defined
them. The Bad Plus toured throughout spring and summer
2003 in support of their major-label debut. The band's
second album, Give followed in spring 2004. For 2005's
Suspicious Activity?, the band produced with album with
Tchad Blake at RealWorld Studios in England. PROG followed
in 2007. In 2009 the trio teamed up with vocalist Wendy
Lewis, adding a new dimension to the sound of their sixth
album, For All I Care. The following year the band
continued to shake things up, releasing Never Stop, their
first album of all original material.