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Fusion. Within music, it's practically a dirty word. Though the term is intended to suggest the magic of endless possibilities, it has an unmistakably loaded ring to it.

The addition of The Bad Plus to our blogroll got a positive review. Here they are, recorded by some guy in the back of the room with a hand-held camera, playing Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Usually I ...

Thirsty Ear Recordings Lately jazz artists have admitted to listening to the music of their own time.

LUXURY TAKES TO THE HIGH SEAS for YachtFest 2008, the West Coast's premier boutique yacht show, September 11-14 on Shelter Island.

Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 15, for Jazz at the Bistro's 2008-2009 season.

Charlie Haden/Ethan Iverson/Bill Frisell . Lately, pianist Iverson, of the irreverent yet sharply intellectual jazz-rock trio the Bad Plus, and bassist Haden, a master of supreme lyricism whose five-decade ...

Since officially declaring bandhood around the turn of the millennium, the Bad Plus has convincingly modeled a closed society.

The explosion of interest in so-called alternative music that began in the early '90s has largely neglected perhaps the most alternative of all musical genres; experimental or "new" music.

Medeski Martin & Wood in Prospect Park - Jun 19th Mos Def , Al Green and the rest of the schedule is right here .

The Bad Plus rocked out the Glenn Gould Studio last Friday night, while the rest of Toronto's concert-going crowd were at clubs and bars taking in NXNE shows .

The Bad Plus , the musical collective with bassist Reid Anderson, pianist Ethan Iverson and drummer David King performs Fri.

The second Mark Morris Dance Group program at the Luminato Festival is a quintessential example of how important music is to Morris's movement.

Mark Morris Dance Group members are by definition the best you'll find in contemporary dance.

The 2008 JVC Jazz Festival New York, produced by The Festival Network, LLC , presents a "festival within the festival" at the Concert Hall at the New York Society for Ethical Culture , 2 West 64th Street at ...

Photographs by Haley Van Dyke Dear readers of the LMB, Martin Dosh is a marvel of a musician and an even greater gentleman.

One band that I've really been taking a liking to over the past year or so would be The Bad Plus , the jazz trio that has officially crossed-over into territory that few piano jazz trios could ever hope for.

"Prog" is the latest, and fifth, release by The Bad Plus who will be performing here in Fallon tomorrow night.

In perhaps the most wildly anticipated theatrical collaboration of the season, the Shotgun Players and experimentalist ensemble Banana Bag and Bodice present the classically volatile Viking tale of Beowulf , ... via Bay Guardian

“But the general feeling of the festival committee is to keep it as a small, contained, high-end festival. There may come a time when we expand it. But for now, we want to maintain its intimacy.”

After seeing attendance jump from about 450 in 2005 to 1,100 last year, San Diego radio station KSDS-FM is confident its fourth annual Jazz 88 Ocean Beach Jazz Festival will be the most successful yet. via San Diego Union-Tribune

“Now there's a piano solo; now there's a bass solo; now here's a little drum solo”

The Bad Plus, from left: Reid Anderson, David King and Ethan Iverson The unusual jazz trio Bad Plus is known for muscular originals and quirky rock covers. via Columbus Dispatch