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Thursday May 16 | Edmonton Journal

Edmonton jazz quartet celebrates CD release

New jazz bands always seem to be germinating new jazz music in Edmonton thanks to the city's busy student population.

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Related Topix: North America Travel, Canada Travel, Canada, Travel, Edmonton, Canada Travel, John Coltrane, Jazz, Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Foo Fighters

Fri May 10, 2013

The Guardian

Lana Del Rey, Mikal Cronin, The Bad Plus: this week's new live music

Rather than focus solely on her talents as a singer, today's Lana Del Rey concert aims to offer the full package: sumptuous music, evocative images, queenly deportment.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Europe, World News, United Kingdom, John Surman

Thu May 09, 2013

Eugene Weekly

Jazz to Baroque

On May 14, just days after The Bad Plus shook The Shedd, another youngish ensemble that's reinventing jazz for a new era, Refuge Trio , plays the University of Oregon's Beall Concert Hall - where the trio's pianist, former UO piano prof Gary Versace , once dazzled Eugeneans a decade ago.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Oregon, University of Oregon, Fashion, Versace, Designers, Eugene, OR, Classical, Music, Entertainment

Mon May 06, 2013

The Santa Barbara Independent

Brad Mehldau Trio and The Bad Plus at the Lobero Theatre

This meeting of the two greatest piano trios in 21st century jazz made for a blissful night of rhythmically complex yet groove-laden improvisations.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Brad Mehldau Trio, Brad Mehldau

Thu Apr 25, 2013

Eugene Weekly

Rejuvenating jazz

Jazz may be America's greatest gift to music, but since its late '50s heyday, the art form has too often become marginalized by the same process familiar to classical music fans: devolving into either endless recycling of the same old standards or an extreme avant-garde content to play shrieky, "out" sounds for a tiny in-group audience.

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Related Topix: Classical, Shedd, OR, Jazz, Eugene, OR, Portland, OR, Corvallis, OR, Music, Entertainment

Wed Apr 24, 2013

Star Tribune

Pianist Craig Taborn returns to Walker Art Center, his inspiration point

Growing up in Golden Valley, the pianist got his inspiration at Walker Art Center.

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Related Topix: Jazz, New York, Entertainment

OregonLive.com

Jazz trio 'The Bad Plus'

The Bad Plus has been slow to evolve -- which isn't a bad thing. The jazz trio from New York by way of Minnesota hit on a core sound that didn't need to be messed with.

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Related Topix: Jazz, The Aphex Twin, Electronic, Music, Entertainment

Tue Apr 23, 2013

Iron Tongue of Midnight

Cal Performances 2013-14

I'm sorry, I have to start out with a boring statement you've all heard from me before: once again, Cal Performances has a great season coming up, loaded with great performers, premieres, the rarely-seen-or-heard, the new, the old, the in-between. Okay, it doesn't have this past year's lineup of operas , but it does have the return of the Vienna ... (more)

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Related Topix: Vienna Philharmonic, Classical, Jazz

Mon Apr 22, 2013

The Guardian

Ethan Iverson - review

"The theme of the evening is playing tunes at least one of us knows," was Ethan Iverson's straightfaced explanation of this impromptu encounter with two local partners, rather than the American pianist's regular sidekicks in the Bad Plus .

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Related Topix: Jazz, Wayne Shorter