the Bad Plus at Hawk's Well Theatre

Having blown away the audience at the Hawk's Well Theatre on their Rite of Spring Tour two years ago, US jazz renegades the Bad Plus open this year's Sligo Jazz Festival with a bang. The Bad Plus — bassist Reid Anderson, pianist Ethan Iverson, and drummer David King — have a well-earned reputation for pushing the limits on what is expected of a piano-bass-drums trio. The past 14 years have seen the genre-smashing band creating a distinctive repertoire of inventive original music, along with a series of iconoclastic covers of such divergent artists as Nirvana and Neil Young, Aphex Twin and Ornette Coleman...

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Having blown away the audience at the Hawk's Well Theatre on their Rite of Spring Tour two years ago, US jazz renegades the Bad Plus open this year's Sligo Jazz Festival with a bang. The Bad Plus — bassist Reid Anderson, pianist Ethan Iverson, and drummer David King — have a well-earned reputation for pushing the limits on what is expected of a piano-bass-drums trio. The past 14 years have seen the genre-smashing band creating a distinctive repertoire of inventive original music, along with a series of iconoclastic covers of such divergent artists as Nirvana and Neil Young, Aphex Twin and Ornette Coleman.

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