Gig Alert: The Bad Plus at Rough Trade Records

Gig Alerts | Nov 21, 2016

Gig Alert: The Bad Plus at Rough Trade Records
Tickets: $25, Show at 8PM

The trio known as The Bad Plus has spent the past 16 years upending our idea of what a jazz piano trio can be. Or maybe, since they started in 2000, they’ve just been creating a jazz piano trio for the 21^st century. Their own music is groove-based and has always been augmented by carefully chosen covers, from Black Sabbath to Ornette Coleman. Their latest album, It’s Hard, is all covers, and includes a prismatic take on Prince, and his song “The Beautiful Ones.”

The Bad Plus plays tonight at Rough Trade.

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