Ethan Iverson has been writing about jazz for 15 years, mostly on his blog Do the Math. While he was the founding pianist of the Bad Plus, these days Iverson performs in a duo with Mark Turner and in Billy Hart’s quartet, has a longstanding relationship with Mark Morris, and teaches at the New England Conservatory of Music.
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Nobody embodied the jazz tradition quite like Mary Lou Williams. She was born in 1910 and helped define stride piano, big-band, and boogie-woogie when those … Read More “Chronology: Mary Lou Williams and the Spirits of ’76″
Although the Enja label had more room for hard-swinging jazz of the old school than ECM did, producers Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber were undoubtedly … Read More “Chronology: Three Munich Nights with John Scofield”
James Newton is still best-known for a remarkable series of jazz albums recorded in the 1970s and 1980s, when the flutist was aligned with fearlessly … Read More “Chronology: James Newton’s Lonely Path”
They still call New York the Big Apple, but it’s less crunchy and tart than it used to be. Going to the Village Vanguard in … Read More “Ethan Iverson Remembers Lorraine Gordon”
The Bad Plus’ pianist examines the classical-jazz paradox
