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Wednesday Sep 3 | Miami New Times

Bendy Pastorius Group Plays Van Dyke Caf

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.

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Related Topix: Jaco Pastorius, Jazz, Deerfield Beach, FL, Miami-Beach, FL, Music, Entertainment

Fri Aug 22, 2008

Cosmic Variance

Friday Tunes: The Bad Plus

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 ...

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Related Topix: Jazz, Nirvana, Grunge

Sun Aug 17, 2008

All About Jazz

Various Artists / Future of Music: Rock The Net

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

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Related Topix: Brad Mehldau, Jazz, Black Entertainment, John Coltrane

Fri Aug 15, 2008

San Diego Magazine

Front Pages

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

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Related Topix: Jazz, San Diego, CA, San Diego Metro, Ocean Beach (San Diego, CA)

Wed Aug 13, 2008

STLtoday

Tickets to Jazz at the Bistro season on sale Friday

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

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Related Topix: Nnenna Freelon, Jazz

Sat Aug 09, 2008

The Boston Globe

A legend, and some interesting combos on tap for Newport Jazz

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 ...

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Related Topix: Charlie Haden, Jazz, Bill Frisell, Dave Holland, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Chris Potter, Music, Entertainment

Sun Jun 29, 2008

All About Jazz

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Bad Plus Trio Goes Quartet at JVC

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

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Related Topix: Jazz

Thu Jun 26, 2008

The Santa Barbara Independent

Colter Frazier's Experiments in New Music

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.

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Related Topix: John Coltrane, Jazz, Black Entertainment, Ornette Coleman, Derek Bailey, Cecil Taylor

Tue Jun 24, 2008

Brooklynvegan

JVC Nyc Jazz Festival has 5 more days to go

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

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Related Topix: Medeski Martin and Wood, Jazz

Sat Jun 21, 2008

BlogTO

The Bad Plus Rocked the Glenn Gould Studio

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 .

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Related Topix: Jazz, Bill Hickman, Children TV, The Muppet Show, Entertainment, Television, Music

Tue Jun 17, 2008

The Toronto Star

What's On: Night & Day Weekend

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

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Related Topix: Jazz, Canada,

Fri Jun 13, 2008

GAM

Music as pure movement - and then some

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

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Related Topix: Arts, Dance, Jazz

Wed Jun 11, 2008

The Toronto Star

Mark Morris Dance Group offers strength in numbers

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

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Related Topix: Arts, Dance, Jazz

Mon Jun 02, 2008

All About Jazz

FESTIVAL: JVC Jazz Festival New York Debuts at the Concert Hall at...

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 ...

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Related Topix: Jazz, George Cables, Cecil Taylor, Kurt Rosenwinkel

Sat May 31, 2008

Live Music Blog

Dosh @ Subterranean, Chicago

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

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Buck 65, Hip-Hop, Jazz

Wed May 21, 2008

Live Music Blog

The Bad Plus @ Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, San Francisco

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.

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Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, Jazz

Sat May 17, 2008

Lahonton Valley News

The Bad Plus and the Twinemen

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

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Related Topix: Nirvana, Grunge, Ornette Coleman, Jazz, Fallon, NV, Morphine, Pop/Rock

Thu May 15, 2008

Bay Guardian

Our weekly picks

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

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, California, Jazz

Tue May 13, 2008

San Diego Union-Tribune

Ocean Beach jazz fest to be 'high-energy show'

“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

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Related Topix: Kevin Mahogany, Jazz, San Diego Metro, Ocean Beach (San Diego, CA), San Diego, CA

Sun May 11, 2008

Columbus Dispatch

Even rock can't escape pizazz of jazz trio

“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

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Related Topix: Jazz

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