JazzMatters: The Best New Jazz of Autumn 2022
PopMatters jazz critic Will Layman rounds up the best new jazz albums of recent vintage, including some thoughts about the US festival season and the undersung virtuoso Warren Wolf.
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The Bad Plus Are Exceptional As a Quartet on Their New Album
The Bad Plus makes a convincing case for the new lineup and puts the quartet’s vitality on full display and injects modern jazz with that same Bad Plus edge.
Mostly Other People Do the Killing Remain “Disastrously” Wonderful
Jazz pranksters Mostly Other People Do the Killing return as an acoustic piano trio with electronics, peddling tuneful tales of destruction on Disasters Vol. 1.
Jazz Today: L.A. Keys-Wiz Kait Dunton on Making Jazz Sound Easy
Once a member of Snarky Puppy, Kait Dunton talk with PopMatters about making it from the other coast and learning to go electric.
The Bad Plus: It’s Hard
For the Bad Plus, unpredictable covers have become the most predictable part of their career.
Music with a Capital “M”: An Interview With Ethan Iverson of the Bad Plus
The Bad Plus may be known for their revisionist covers of pop songs, but pianist Ethan Iverson proudly reflects on jazz’s past and shares his hopes and fears about its future.
Dave King Trucking Company: Surrounded by the Night
Dave King hitches seven new melodies to his Trucking Company, a modern jazz supergroup that likes to play it cool to a fault.
The Best Jazz of 2014
The skeptics who claim jazz is weaker than before simply aren't listening. As these 16 albums reveal, jazz remains on the cutting edge.
The Bad Plus: Inevitable Western
The gloriously varied piano trio returns to a program of all-original music, still mixing jazz, rock, classical, avant-garde, and you-name-it styles in a way that defies convention.
Evocation of the Ancestors: An Interview with the Bad Plus
In tackling Stravinsky, the Bad Plus tell PopMatters how they've met their most interesting challenge yet.