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David King (drummer)
David King (born June 8, 1970) is an American drummer from Minneapolis. He is known for being a founding member of the jazz groups The Bad Plus (with Reid Anderson and Ethan Iverson) and Happy Apple (with Michael Lewis and Erik Fratzke) although he is active in many other projects including free jazz collective Buffalo Collision with NYC "downtown" musicians Tim Berne and Hank Roberts and the electronic art/pop group Halloween, Alaska, as well as the noise/prog band The Gang Font with former Hüsker Dü bassist Greg Norton, and jazz quintet Dave King Trucking Company. Career King has recorded or performed with Bill Frisell, Joshua Redman, Joe Lovano, Dewey Redman, Chris Speed, Ursus Minor (with Tony Hymas, Jef Lee Johnson, François Corneloup, Jeff Beck, Julian Lage, Boots Riley and Dead Prez), Joe 'Guido' Welsh, Viktor Krauss, Matt Maneri, Bill Carrothers, Anthony Cox, Atmosphere, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Benoît Delbecq, Django Bates, Meat Beat Manifesto, Craig Taborn's Junk Magic, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moers Festival
The Moers Festival is an annual international music festival in Moers, Germany. The festival has changed from concentrating on free jazz to including world and pop music, though it still invites many avant-garde jazz musicians. Performers at Moers include Lester Bowie, Fred Frith, Jan Garbarek, Herbie Hancock, Abdullah Ibrahim, David Murray, Sun Ra, Archie Shepp, and Cecil Taylor. The festival is officially named "mœrs festival" with lowercase letters. History left, In 1978 the International New Jazz Festival Moers took place outdoors. (picture David Friedman) On stage Ned Rothenberg Double Band, 2004 The festival was founded in 1971 by Burkhard Hennen. Three years later, he formed Moers Music to sell performances recorded at the festival. In the early years the festival took place in the paved yard of the castle. In 1975 it was moved to a nearby park because of increased attendance. After a few years outdoors, it moved to a large venue. African Dance Night was added in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is an annual non-fiction film festival held in Missoula, Montana each February. The event showcases documentary films from around the world. The festival first began in 2003 as a seven-day event. It is now a ten-day event. The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is the largest cinema event in Montana. The festival presents an average of 150 non-fiction films annually at the historic Wilma Theater, The Top Hat, The Roxy Theater, and Crystal Theater in downtown Missoula. BSDFF hosts DocShop an industry-focused feature of the festival that offers documentary filmmakers opportunities for networking, discussion, and professional development. The schedule includes workshops, Work-In-Progress presentations, panels, and the annual Big Sky Pitch session. DocShop's participants have included: HBO Documentary Films, Participant Media, BBC Storyville, CNN Films, ITVS, POV, PBS, Tribeca Film Institute, Sundance Doc Fund, Chicken & Egg Pictures, The Fledgling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rite Of Spring (The Bad Plus Album)
''The Rite of Spring'' is a 2014 studio album by American jazz trio The Bad Plus. It is the group's ninth studio album. It is an interpretation of the Igor Stravinsky orchestral composition. The trio first performed the music live in 2011. Reception Will Layman of ''PopMatters'' wrote, "This version is not the usual "jazz version" of a classical composition. Usually, the jazz/classical combination means that melodies and harmonies from classical work are used as the written "song" for a standard jazz performance, with the lead instruments improvising new choruses over the "song structure" of the classical piece... Still, this is in every respect a jazz record." Chris Barton of ''Los Angeles Times'' mentioned, "The Bad Plus mostly set aside improvisation in an effort to capture Stravinsky’s modernist vision, but in some ways it’s never sounded freer." Jason Greene of ''Pitchfork'' wrote, "The feat is still impressive, in an athletic way. The trio have been mapping out this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Made Possible
''Made Possible'' is a 2012 studio album by American jazz trio The Bad Plus released by E1 Music. It is the group's eighth studio album. ''Made Possible'' is the first album by The Bad Plus to feature electronic instruments. Reception In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek stated, "Made Possible finds the Bad Plus openly wrestling with the complex interrelationship between rhythm, harmony, and improvisation (individual and collective). It offers a more inviting aural view of the group confronting these questions, and the historic weight and imposing boundaries associated with "the piano trio" in jazz. Rather than try to simply find answers, the Bad Plus engage the listener in the process of asking more questions about music itself." ''The Guardians John Fordham wrote, "Made Possible is at once vintage Bad Plus in its striking themes, nonchalant time-bends and full-on collective improv, and proof of this awesome ensemble's continuing evolution. All the tracks are originals, apart f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Never Stop (The Bad Plus Album)
''Never Stop'' is the seventh studio album by American jazz trio The Bad Plus, released on September 14, 2010 by E1 Music label. This album is the first by the band to consist entirely of original compositions. The album consists of 10 original tracks written by bandmembers. A follow-up originals-only album, ''Never Stop II'', was released in 2018. Reception Nilan Perera of ''Exclaim!'' stated, "These guys are omnivorous, to say the least. ''Never Stop'', however, is an album of originals that, not surprisingly reflects this nature quite admirably and, in some cases, quite humorously... But, all things considered, this release is predominantly an imaginative, confident offering of jazz piano trio laced with strength, tightness of sound and execution that reflects the past decade of constant recording and performance." In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek wrote, "The Bad Plus' originals have always been provocative, but being parceled between covers, their impact was unduly blunt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For All I Care
''For All I Care'' is a studio album by American jazz trio The Bad Plus with Wendy Lewis on vocals. The album was released in Europe on October 20, 2008, by EmArcy and in the U.S. on February 3, 2009, by Heads Up. This is the first Bad Plus album to include a vocalist, as well as the first to feature no original songs. Although the Bad Plus are known for playing cover versions of rock songs, this is their first album with nothing but cover songs, including a few 20th-century classical pieces. David King explained to ''Star Tribune'' that the main inspiration for the record was the seminal 1963 album ''John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman''. As he mentioned, "The band still played like it was the John Coltrane Quartet, with or without Hartman. That's what we really aimed for." Reception At Metacritic Metacritic is a website that review aggregator, aggregates reviews of films, TV shows, music albums, video games and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prog (album)
''Prog'' is the fifth studio album recorded by American jazz trio The Bad Plus. Like previous Bad Plus recordings, ''Prog'' features several covers including "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears, " Life on Mars?" by David Bowie, and "Tom Sawyer" by Rush. It was released on 8 May 2007 by Heads Up label to positive critical reception. Reception At Metacritic, that assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 80, based on eight critical reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim". Amar Patel in his review for BBC stated, "Rather than pondering motives for choosing such covers – “is it irony… is it sincerity or is it a mid-life crisis?” – let’s accept Prog for what it is: a free-spirited and fun excursion into the dynamic of the trio format by a twenty-year-old highly literate band of ‘gypsies’... By no means glamorous or gimmicky, but certainly invested with the cinematic scope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suspicious Activity?
''Suspicious Activity?'' is the fourth studio album by the American jazz band The Bad Plus. The band had previously garnered attention for covering well-known rock songs in an "acoustic power trio" style, but ''Suspicious Activity?'' includes only one cover version: the theme to the 1981 movie ''Chariots of Fire''. Instead, the album focuses on the band's original music, including the track "O.G. (Original Gentleman)," which is a tribute to the legendary jazz drummer Elvin Jones. This would be The Bad Plus' final album for Columbia Records, as the band and the label parted ways in 2006. Outtakes Several cover versions from the ''Suspicious Activity?'' recording sessions are available on iTunes and other major online services, including Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song," Queen's "We Are the Champions," and Björk's "Human Behaviour." Extended copy protection In November 2005, it was revealed that Sony was distributing albums with Extended Copy Protection, a controversial feature th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Give (The Bad Plus Album)
''Give'' is the third studio album released by The Bad Plus. It contains covers of Ornette Coleman's "Street Woman," The Pixies' "Velouria," and Black Sabbath's "Iron Man." Track listing Depending on the pressing, one or both of the following tracks may appear as bonus tracks. The recording of "Knowing Me, Knowing You" is not the same as the one that appeared on ''The Bad Plus'' album. Personnel *Ethan Iverson – piano *Reid Anderson – double bass * David King – drums *Tchad Blake Tchad Blake (born 1955) is an American record producer, audio engineer, mixer and musician. A native of Baytown, Texas, he has worked with numerous artists and musicians, including Al Green, American Music Club, Ani DiFranco, Apartment 26, Arct ... – producer References 2004 albums The Bad Plus albums Albums produced by Tchad Blake {{2000s-jazz-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
These Are The Vistas
''These Are the Vistas'' was the second studio album released by the jazz trio The Bad Plus, and the band's first album for a major label (Columbia Records). The album was the listening public's first widespread opportunity to hear the band, which Jim Fusilli of the ''Wall Street Journal'' called a "jazz power trio with a rock-and-roll heart." The album features several cover songs: Nirvanas "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Blondies " Heart of Glass," and Aphex Twins "Flim". In November 2009, NPR's ''All Songs Considered'' selected the album as one of the 50 "most important" recordings of the decade. Production According to ''JazzTimes'', producer-engineer Tchad Blake, "comes to azzfrom the world of Los Lobos, Tom Waits and Pearl Jam" and "approaches ''These Are the Vistas'' with an ear for acoustic frictions. His firm but unobtrusive direction showcases the Bad Plus in a way that's somehow both huge-sounding and stripped-down." Track listing Personnel *Ethan Iverson – pian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bad Plus (album)
''The Bad Plus'' (also known as ''Motel'') is the eponymous first album released by The Bad Plus. Background It contains covers of ABBA's "Knowing Me, Knowing You," Rodgers and Hart's 1934 classic "Blue Moon," and Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." It was recorded on December 28, 2000, and released in 2001 on the Fresh Sound New Talent label. Track listing # "Knowing Me, Knowing You" (ABBA) – 5:45 # "Blue Moon" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:01 # "1972 Bronze Medalist" ( David King) – 5:06 # "The Breakout" (Reid Anderson) – 5:22 # "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic) – 6:32 # "Labyrinth" (Ethan Iverson) – 5:13 # "Scurry" ( Iverson) – 5:22 # "Love Is the Answer" (Anderson) – 8:22 Personnel * Ethan Iverson – piano * Reid Anderson – acoustic bass * David King – drums * Jordi Pujol – executive producer Executive producer (EP) is one of the top positions in the making of a commercial entertainment product. Dependin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Peterson
Billy Peterson (born as Willard Peterson, in Minnesota) is an American bass player, songwriter, composer, session musician and producer. Growing up in a family of professional musicians, Peterson started with music at a very young age. Billy is brother of Paul Peterson (bass guitarist/singer/songwriter/keyboardist) and Ricky Peterson (keyboardist/singer/song writer/producer). Career Early career In 1967, he joined The Righteous Brothers on a summer tour. While going to school, Peterson played bass and drums in local orchestras, big bands, R&B bands and toured with the Lawrence Welk Show All Stars. After high-school, he started playing bass with trumpet-legend Clifford Brown's pianist Billy Wallace until 1973. In the mid 1970s, he was the bassist on three albums of folk guitarist Leo Kottke and also the electric and upright bassist on Bob Dylan's multi-platinum album ''Blood On The Tracks'' for Columbia Records. In 1976, he joined the Gibson guitar staff giving him the opportunity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
