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Musician

Born on June 8, 1970, King grew up in Golden Valley, Minnesota. He listened to a wide variety of music and musicians, including Buddy Holly, John Coltrane, Led Zeppelin and Hank Snow. He started playing piano at age four and switched to drums in the fifth grade. He attended Cooper High School and the MacPhail Center for Music for five years, playing rock and jazz. He moved to Los Angeles, where he worked as a studio musician. But it was in 1990 when King, pianist Ethan Iverson and guitarist Reid Anderson first started playing together. They formed The Bad Plus and in 2001. King��s other trio, Happy Apple, with bassist Erik Fratzke, and soprano-alto-tenor saxophonist/keyboardist Michael Lewis, was formed in 1996

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Victoria Kirilova, Anneleen Boehme, Kannaste4, Redshift Trio & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 3, 2025

Brandee Younger's feelgood new album opens a playlist with excellent debut albums, and old friends playing in new configurations.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Brandee Younger “Gadabout Season" Gadabout Season (Impulse!) 0:16 Host talks 5:03 Victoria Kirilova “Midnight Express" Roots & Skies (Da Vinci) ...

Article: Live Review

The Bad Plus at Jazz Alley

by Paul Rauch
May 16, 2025

The Bad Plus Jazz Alley Seattle, Washington May 13, 2025 The Bad Plus is a band, and a successful brand in the music world. They have a litany of successful recording and performance credits to their history, achieving amazing success while employing an approach to jazz that is perhaps odd and ...

Article: Live Review

The Bad Plus at Bop Stop

by John Chacona
February 14, 2025

The Bad PlusBOP STOP at the Music SettlementCleveland, OHFebruary 7, 2025 Teachers of jazz--the good ones, at least--emphasize the importance of finding an individual sound. That goes for ensembles, too, and at their Friday appearance at Cleveland's Bop Stop, The Bad Plus demonstrated how, even with a radical overhauling of personnel ...

Album

Auteur: Music Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson

By Amanda Gardier

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Coping with the Very Troubled Child; Let's Hope It's Got a Happy Ending; I Wonder if It Remembers Me; The Blue of Winter; The Incarcerated Artist and His Muse; Electroshock Therapy; The Cycling Reporter; Order for Yourself; Green Line.

Album

Complex Emotions

By Reid Anderson

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Grid/Ocean; French Horns; Casa Ben; Carrier; Cupcakes One; Tyrone��s Flamingo; Deep Water Sharks; Li Po.

Article: Album Review

Amanda Gardier: Auteur: Music Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson

Read "Auteur: Music Inspired by the Films of Wes Anderson" reviewed by Robert Middleton

by Robert Middleton
October 27, 2024

Amanda Gardier's Auteur is not just an album--it is a cinematic experience captured in sound, an exploration of one of America's most singular film directors, Wes Anderson, through the language of modern jazz. The album showcases Gardier's ability to translate visual storytelling into a sonic narrative that is vibrant, eclectic and highly expressive. With ...

Article: Live Review

Julian Lage at Club Hancher

by Joshua Weiner
September 20, 2024

Julian Lage TrioClub Hancher at Hancher Auditorium Iowa City, IA September 15, 2024 The gorgeous new Hancher Auditorium, rebuilt in 2016 following severe flood damage to the original building in 2008, is situated on the campus of The University of Iowa. While the large Hadley Stage auditorium seats 1,800 and ...

Article: Live Review

Detroit Jazz Festival 2024: The Year of Alice

by Paul Rauch
September 12, 2024

Detroit Jazz Festival 2024 Hart Plaza & Campus Martius Detroit, MI August 30-September 2, 2024 An annual pilgrimage to the Detroit Jazz Festival allows a jazz fan, or in this case, a jazz journalist, to reset to an internal default setting for what this music means to us on a very ...

Article: Interview

Charlie Ballantine and Amanda Gardier: Midwest Jazz Auteurs Move East

by Robert Middleton
July 25, 2024

Guitarist Charlie Ballantine and saxophonist Amanda Gardier are young, up-and-coming jazz musicians who are a rarity: they are married and perform together. Hailing from the heart of the Midwest in Indianapolis, they both began playing at a young age, influenced by both jazz and popular music. Together, they have recorded several exceptional albums. Since ...