December 25-27

The Bad Plus

7:00 & 9:30

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The Bad Plus reestablish their Midwestern roots with their annual appearance at the Dakota, where they first appeared under the name “Dave King Trio” in 2000. With their fiercely iconoclastic sound and brilliant original music, they have achieved a level of success that few jazz groups have ever elevated to.

“If the Coen Brothers put together a jazz trio, perhaps it would be like this, the comic and the dramatic rolled together.”
- The Guardian
“With the most distinctive sound of any three-piece outfit since Nirvana, The Bad Plus again demonstrate vitality few bands– rock, jazz, or whatever–can match.”
- Amplifer

atfmpls.com The Bad Plus stopped by the Electric Fetus in Minneapolis on Record Store Day [04.18.09] to play a short set of songs from their new album ‘For All I Care.’ Watch the band perform their cover of Nirvana’s ‘Lithium’ feat. vocals from Wendy Lewis

WHO: THE BAD PLUS  WITH WENDY LEWIS

WHAT: ‘FOR ALL I CARE’ (CD RELEASE)

WHEN: SATURDAY APRIL 25TH, 2009 @ 7:30 PM

WHERE: THE CEDAR CULTURAL CENTER (MINNEAPOLIS, MN)

WHY: TICKETS SELLING QUICKLY, BUY THEM SOON!

HOW: BIKE, WALK, LIGHT RAIL, BUS, & DRIVE

Reviews:

Rolling Stone  (“…It’s about as badass as highbrow gets”)

Boston Globe  (“Bringing in an unknown vocalist, Minneapolis alt-rocker Wendy Lewis, may sound like a risk, but it works exceedingly well”)

The Globe and Mail  (“Long Distance Runaround, a Yes tune that seems both windy and rambling in the original, comes across here as a deftly modulated meditation on love and trust, while the Bee Gees’ How Deep Is Your Love is a minor masterpiece, transforming the breezy romance of the original into heartbreaking melancholy, until the chorus hook takes on the emotional weight of a Mahler adagio”)

eMusic   (“…While I don’t think this collaboration with Lewis ultimately changes what the trio is all about, it could be seen as their “pop record.” If only more pop records were packed with this many ideas”)

The Hurst Review  (“…The great triumph here, as with all the past Bad Plus albums, is that, as much as this music gives the surface illusion of bucking jazz conventions, it actually does nothing if not capture the anarchic spirit of jazz at its best”)

Jazz.about.com  (“The trio makes this thorny Milton Babbitt piece [Semi-simple Variations] rock. The arrangement is a great example of how well the group combines influences of the 20th century. Its not clear if it should be classified as experimental classical, experimental rock, or experimental jazz”)

LiveDaily  (“…They’re as serious about Stravinsky as they are about Kurt Cobain. Therein lies their strength”)

The New York Times (“…the members of the band…justify what looks from a distance like a stunt: each of these songs is performed with force and order, and Ms. Lewis’s warm, plain-spoken voice against Mr. Iverson’s icily dissonant piano chords creates a memorable friction”)

Fred Kaplan  (“…This is their most ambitious, and most accomplished, album, the one that should persuade the final doubters that there’s serious—not brow-furrowed, in fact still quite playful, but in the best sense of the word serious—music going on here”)

NPR chooses “How Deep Is Your Love” as a Song for the Day

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Listen to “Lithium” @ Alarm Magazine.

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Longer articles about For All I Care:

NY Daily News

All About Jazz

RockOm

The Independent Ear

December 26 – 29 Dakota Jazz Club, Minneapolis
December 30 – Jan 4 The Village Vanguard, New York (including New Year’s Eve)

January 7 – 10 Jazz At the Bistro, St. Louis

Set-list preview below1st set, 1st night (December 26th, 2008)

Apollo (Stravinsky)
You Are (Reid Anderson)
Bill Hickman at Home (Ethan Iverson)
Iron Man (Black Sabbath)
Giant (Reid Anderson)
Metal (Ligeti?)
Old Money (Ethan Iverson)
1972 Bronze Medalist (David King)
Big Eater (David King)
Comfortably Numb w/ Wendy Lewis (Pink Floyd)
Barracuda w/ Wendy Lewis (Heart)