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Sunday Night at the Triple Door Earshot Jazz presented  one of my favorite groups The Bad Plus. The were BAD. So intense and interesting to watch.
As badass as highbrow gets. A rollicking and thought-provoking good time with the acclaimed Reid Anderson (bass), Ethan Iverson (piano) and Dave King (drums), who always go a leap ahead of the conventional piano trio.

The Bad Plus has spent almost fifteen years redefining what a piano-bass-drums trio can be. They’ve reached audiences of all demographic stripes with an uncompromising body of original music (plus some ingenious, genre-jumping covers) and dedicated touring around the globe. On their eighth studio album, Made Possible, they take their distinctive musical MO to captivating new heights, proving once again that the rules of musical convention are made to be broken.

Throughout, The Bad Plus has held fast to a band ethos and belief in what the trio likes to call avantgarde populism (progressive, musically sophisticated ideas without the highbrow trappings). Made Possible is a vivid and convincing document of this passionate stance, loaded with genre-defying music that is at once complex, heartfelt and instantly engaging.

Here is a link to the Earshot Jazz Festival website  schedule for the rest of the Festival.

Here is a link to the Earshot Jazz Festival website  schedule for the rest of the Festival.