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The Bad Plus Berklee Performance Center, Boston, MA | April 3, 2009 -

At first glance, The Bad Plus might appear to be a jazz trio covering modern classics, especially since their latest release, 2009's For All I Care shocked many an audiophile when the needle dropped� it is comprised entirely of covers. But therein lies the magic of The Bad...

The Bad Plus Cover Wilco, The Flaming Lips -

The Bad Plus will switch things up on its new record, For All I Care. For the first time, the instrumentaltrio has added a singer Wendy Lewis the mix, augmenting the core trio of ReidAnderson (bass), Ethan Iverson (piano) and David King (drums). The groupequates the addition to when The...

Modern Creative - Modern Creative is a genre of jazz music that combines older jazz genres like fusion, bop, and free with more contemporary musical styles such as funk, pop, and rock. All Music Guide has the following definition: "Continuing the tradition of the '50s to '60s free-jazz mode, Modern Creative musicians may...

Post-bop - Post-bop is a term for a form of small-combo jazz music that evolved in the early-to-mid sixties. The genre's origins lie in seminal work by John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Charles Mingus and especially Herbie Hancock. Generally, the term post-bop is taken to mean jazz from the mid-sixties onward...

Brad Mehldau - Live in Marciac -

As a jazz pianist, Brad Mehldau has always been at his best in two formats: the classic piano-bass-drums trio and as a solo player. Later in 2011, Nonesuch plans to re-issue his great The Art of the Trio recordings as a six-disc box set. Meanwhile, on Live in Marciac, Mehldau...

U2 Talk Quick Album Turnaround -

Bono compares it to John Coltrane...Word around the mainstream rock campfire this morning is that U2 are aiming to follow up their new album ‘No Line On The Horizon’ â€" out this week, and certainly number one on Sunday â€" with a swiftly delivered successor.‘Songs Of Ascent’, to give said...

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