Ethan Iverson

Ethan Iverson: Technically Acceptable

by Mike Jurkovic
January 3, 2024

The funhouse genius of pianist Ethan Iverson hits full nor'easter with Technically Accepted, an album so loaded with invention and cool it rises instantly to the pack of hands-down favorites for the still unformed year of 2024. Unbounded, Iverson's many quirks and instigations hurl madly around the house, the studio, the bodega down the street and it is up to the rest of us to keep up. That includes his two simpatico rhythm sections: bassist Thomas Morgan and ...

Ethan Iverson: Every Note Is True

by Neri Pollastri
March 10, 2022

Oltre vent'anni dopo la cofondazione dei The Bad Plus e a quattro dalla sua fuoriuscita dalla fortunata formazione, Ethan Iverson ha approfittato della sosta imposta dalla pandemia per portare in studio due musicisti di assoluto spicco quali Larry Grenadier e Jack DeJohnette per registrare con un nuovo trio un album che andasse oltre quanto maturato nel lungo lavoro svolto con la sua precedente formazione. Ne è venuto fuori questo singolare Every Note Is True, primo disco del pianista per la ...

Chet Doxas: You Can't Take It With You

by Jerome Wilson
December 12, 2021

Tenor saxophonist Chet Doxas has been getting attention in recent years by collaborating with prominent musicians such as Dave Douglas and Carla Bley. On this album he explores his own compositions in a trio with two sympathetic partners, pianist Ethan Iverson and bassist Thomas Morgan. Doxas' music here falls into one of two general styles, slippery blues-inflected pieces reminiscent of Jimmy Giuffre's trios with Jim Hall or more abstract work where the three musicians take on roles complementary to each ...

Bud's Got Buddies

by Patrick Burnette
June 10, 2021

We bring the old-ish and the brand-new this week, with two catalog items courtesy of Mike and two 2021 Bud Powell tributes courtesy of Kismet, I guess. One oldie is a middle of the road Blue Note basic, while the other is a third stream effort that is glancingly echoed in the more orchestrated of the two Bud tributes. And that's all you're getting out of me—you'll have to listen to the episode to find out more. Playlist ...

Ethan Iverson & Umbria Jazz Orchestra: Bud Powell in the 21st Century

by Angelo Leonardi
April 1, 2021

Da quando ha lasciato The Bad Plus l'attività di Ethan Iverson s'è sviluppata in più direzioni, passando da lavori strumentali in duo (con Mark Turner: Temporary Kings ECM 2018) o in quartetto (Common Practice ECM 2019) ad opere estese come il concerto per pianoforte con l'American Composers Orchestra (Concerto to Scale). Tra le altre cose ha curato una celebrazione di Thelonious Monk alla Duke University e scritto la colonna sonora per Pepperland, l'opera sui Beatles del coreografo Mark Morris.

L'integrale per pianoforte di Ligeti a Bologna

by Libero Farnè
March 6, 2019

Musica Insieme Contemporanea Oratorio di San Filippo Neri Bologna 28.2.2019 È seducente l'immagine del manifesto di MICO 2019: semplice, ma satura, allusiva, giocosa. Al centro di uno sfondo rosso è inquadrato un piccolo pianoforte-giocattolo altrettanto rosso, come quelli che fanno parte dell'armamentario di strumentini e oggetti accessori vari nelle solo performance di Fabrizio Puglisi o di altri pianisti improvvisatori. L'immagine rappresenta adeguatamente il tema e lo spirito della quattordicesima edizione della rassegna ...

Ethan Iverson/Larry Grenadier/Paul Motian at the Village Vanguard on March 3, 2011

by Warren Allen
March 23, 2011

Ethan Iverson / Larry Grenadier / Paul MotianThe Village VanguardNew York, NYMarch 3, 2011 The press that followed the rise of The Bad Plus rocked jazz's slightly dusty seismometer. And with it, pianist Ethan Iversion rose to the forefront of the jazz piano world for his heart-pounding work in the Plus' Prog-jazz aesthetic. Yet, at his core, Iverson is a powerful player who mixes cracks of atonality with a stately lyricism that draws broadly ...

Just Released: "Clockworks" (Songlines Recordings) Featuring Patrick Zimmerli Quartet with Ethan Iverson, Chris Tordini, John Hollenbeck

Source: AMT Public Relations
April 3, 2018

Completing a 25-year compositional arc, saxophonist-composer Patrick Zimmerli releases his new jazz suite Clockworks (Songlines) following the release in 2016 of his first quartet’s 1992 recording Shores Against Silence (with Kevin Hays, Larry Grenadier and Tom Rainey). Both records feature rhythmically and melodically advanced composition largely inspired by Zimmerli’s love of serial composers such as Babbitt, Carter, Stockhausen and Boulez, though still grounded in a jazz ethos. Both explore a different third stream direction in jazz that Zimmerli made his ...
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Donna Lewis With UK Release Of "Brand New Day" Featuring Ethan Iverson, Reid Anderson and Dave King - Produced By David Torn - Out June 17, 2016 + UK Tour

Source: Emma Perry Publicity
May 6, 2016

Brand New Day is available for Pre-Order. “I Love You Always Forever" was such a huge hit for the multi-platinum artist Donna Lewis; a #1 chart hit / dance-pop classic for which people around the globe still have boundless affection—the 1996 song will always be the one for which many fans know her. But the Welsh native is an artist of many dimensions, as she has demonstrated with efforts ranging from “At the Beginning," her charming duet with Richard Marx ...
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Saxophonist Sam Newsome and Pianist Ethan Iverson Perform in the Sound It out Series at Greenwich House Music School, September 15, 2012.

Source: Two for the Show Media
September 5, 2012

Sam Newsome will play an intro set of incantatory solo soprano saxophone - including famous Coltrane and Ellington pieces - before being joined by Iverson, pianist of The Bad Plus, for a full duo performance. The Sound It Out series presents saxophonist Sam Newsome and pianist Ethan Iverson in performance at the Greenwich House Music School in New York City's West Village at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 15, 2012. Newsome is renowned for his incantatory solo soprano saxophone performances, ...
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Fred Hersch and Ethan Iverson Rework Stephen Sondheim for Pianist Anthony de Mare

Source: AMT Public Relations
December 14, 2011

Pianist Anthony de Mare Salutes Stephen Sondheim in LIAISONS: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano A Nationwide Tour of 36 Premiere Interpretations by Today's Most Revered Composers 2012 Concert Tour:

Jan 21 :: Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY Feb 4 :: Cliburn Concerts, Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX Mar 12 :: Music at Meyer, San Francisco, CA Apr 21 :: Symphony Space, New York, NY May 1-2 :: Gilmore Keyboard Festival, Kalamazoo, MI

Fred Hersch/No One Is Alone—"No ...
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Ethan Iverson Revisits

Source: Music and More by Tim Niland
November 12, 2010

Ethan Iverson has updated his original post that listed his favorite jazz albums from the years 1973-1990. When his first list came out in 2006, it ignited an excellent conversation about albums in that period that have been overlooked by fans and scholars. His update expands this idea further, focusing on post-bop jazz from the 1970's and 80's. There are some really interesting choices here, definitely food for thought in re-assessing an era that is often overlooked in jazz history. ...
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Ethan Iverson Interviews Gerald Early

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
May 8, 2010

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Grammy Award Winner Steve Reich, Ethan Iverson, and Others to Discuss the Life and Career of Composer Hall Overton in the Free Program Hall Overton: Out of the Shadows at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts on April 14

Source: Michael Ricci
April 7, 2010

In collaboration with The Jazz Loft Project exhibit, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts welcomes Steve Reich, Joel Sachs, Carman Moore, Ethan Iverson, and Sam Stephenson to discuss famed composer Hall Overton in Hall Overton: Out of the Shadows on Wednesday, April 14 at 6:00 p.m. in the Bruno Walter Auditorium at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. Admission is free. The New York Public Library for the ...
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The Respect Sextet Returns to le Poisson Rouge in NYC on Tues, January 12, 2010 at 10:00PM with Ethan Iverson (of the Bad Plus) Opening on Solo Piano

Source: Michael Ricci
January 6, 2010

After nearly a decade together, the members of The Respect Sextet have created an environment of trust and musical courage that allows them to explore the many facets of improvised music. They displayed this fearlessness--and a playful love of experimentation--to a standing-room-only crowd at Le Poisson Rouge. So said All About Jazz columnist Jason Crane about The Respect Sextet's previous performance at Le Poission Rouge in late May, when the band celebrated the release of their newest recording, on Mode ...
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2007 World Premiere of the Complete Visual Jazz Composition " Buffalo Collision" with Ethan Iverson, David King, Tim Berne and Matt Maneri by T.E. Priemon

Source: All About Jazz
July 13, 2007

"Buffalo Collision" explores the non-standard use of the jazz composition. This work was composed using the medium of Photonality, which basically is a visual music composition. The camera acts as an additional instrument within the performance. This visual music composition was from the April 2007 performance of Buffalo Collision at the University of Pennsylvania Rose Hall. Etahn Iverson and David King are both from “The Bad Plus" and were joined by legendary Tim Berne and Matt Maneri to form this ...
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Ethan Iverson, Solo Piano

Source: All About Jazz
January 26, 2005

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