The Bad Plus

Arden's first entry in the DuPont Clifford Brown Jazz Festival - year-round concert series. The Bad Plus will be at Gild Hall on Saturday March 31, 2012. After rocking Delaware in 2009, this will be their first headlining show in out newly rebuilt rustic acoustically amazing barn!
NEVER Stop is the first album by The Bad Plus to consist entirely of originals. Recorded in Minnesota with a live, stripped-down sound, Never Stop showcases the band's range as well as its three distinct personalities. From gentle and melodic to fierce and abstract, from swing to 80's techno, Never Stop is tied together by a group sound that embraces diversity as strength. Ten years in, The Bad Plus is here to stay.
BRIEF HISTORY
For the past 10 years The Bad Plus have created an uncompromising body of work by shattering musical convention. Rolling Stone called their amalgam of jazz, pop, rock and avant garde "about as badass as highbrow gets," while The New York Times said the band is "better than anyone at mixing the sensibilities of post-'60s jazz and indie rock." Few jazz groups in recent memory have amassed such acclaim, and few have generated as much controversy while audaciously bucking musical trends.
While the bulk of their output has been originals, they have famously deconstructed covers in the pop, rock, electronic and classical idioms. Their belief in a band ethos and "avant-garde populism" has placed them at the forefront of a new instrumental music movement, resulting in ever-growing audiences throughout the world.
The threesome has been exchanging musical ideas since their teenage years. In the late '80s, Anderson and King were two Minnesota high schoolers playing in fledgling rock bands and digging records by Coltrane and The Police. Anderson met Iverson in 1989. All three played together on one occasion a year later before going their separate ways for ten years.
This show presented with funding from Mid Altlantic Arts Foundation Special Presenter's Initiative and the Delaware Division of the Arts.