The Bad Plus

Ethan Iverson: The Purity of the Turf review – like a time-travelling Monk trio

John Fordham

01, Dec, 2016 @6:00 PM

Glasper/the Bad Plus review – funky street swerves and sparky pop covers

Pianist Robert Glasper’s heavily electronic, hip-hop infused jazz segued into R&B while the Bad Plus turned Cyndi Lauper into Thelonious Monk

John Fordham

16, Nov, 2016 @12:37 PM

The Bad Plus review – great soloists, shame they can’t write a tune

The Minneapolis trio’s strength was doing cover versions. The Minneapolis trio’s strength was doing cover versions. An evening of their own aimless songs didn’t give them enough to chew on, writes John Lewis

John Lewis

18, Nov, 2014 @5:14 PM

Seamus Blake/Chris Cheek: Reeds Ramble review – 'Quirky and mesmerising'

Thanks to the presence of the Bad Plus's Ethan Iverson on piano, this session keeps taking unpredictable turns, writes John Fordham

John Fordham

13, Mar, 2014 @10:15 PM

Ethan Iverson – review

The Bad Plus pianist played the daylights out of a programme of jazz standards, writes John Fordham

John Fordham

22, Apr, 2013 @5:07 PM

Take Five: John Fordham's month in jazz – April

From Kurt Elling at Ronnie Scott's to the first London jazz festival tickets, John Fordham picks out the month's musical highlights

John Fordham

19, Apr, 2013 @9:33 AM

The Bad Plus: Made Possible – review

An album of mostly originals that is at once vintage Bad Plus and proof of this awesome ensemble's continuing evolution, writes John Fordham

John Fordham

18, Oct, 2012 @9:29 PM

Kekko Fornarelli – review

Fornarelli's trio took time to assert its own voice, but this dazzling gig ultimately went off with a bang, writes John Fordham

John Fordham

05, Sep, 2012 @1:58 PM

This week's new live music

Andrew Clements, John Fordham & John Robinson

20, Jul, 2012 @11:05 PM

Sonny Rollins/The Bad Plus

As if heartened by arrival at his 80th birthday, Rollins swept imperiously through a two-hour single set without a blink, writes John Fordham

John Fordham

21, Nov, 2010 @10:30 PM

CD: The Bad Plus, For All I Care

The Bad Plus

John Fordham

07, Nov, 2008 @12:01 AM

The Bad Plus, Jazz Cafe, London

Jazz Cafe, London

John Fordham

04, Jul, 2008 @12:06 AM

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