外文名：The Bad Plus 国籍：美国 成立时间：2000 年 活跃年代：2000 年至今 风格：爵士乐，前卫爵士乐 简介：The Bad Plus 是一支来自美国明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯的美国爵士乐队，成立于 2000 年。他们最初是一个钢琴三重奏，但在 2021 年成为四重奏：创始成员 Reid Anderson 担任贝斯手和 David King 担任鼓手，以及吉他手 Ben Monder 和男高音萨克斯手 Chris Speed。 小简介： Are the Bad Plus a pop- and rock-influenced jazz trio? Or are they a power trio who like to play jazz? It's really a bit of both. But in the brave new world of postmodern jazz, identity crises are encouraged. Reid Anderson (bass) and David King (drums) grew up in Minnesota, while pianist Ethan Iverson spent his formative years in Wisconsin. Eventually, after crossing paths in such unlikely places as high school rock showcases and tentative free jazz performances inside upper-Midwestern diners, the three first performed as the Bad Plus in 1990; but they would spend the '90s embracing separate influences, each musician developing a unique musical language that would gestate into the Bad Plus' iconoclastic jazz template. Anderson released three albums on the Spanish indie Fresh Sound; Iverson was music director of New York City's prestigious Mark Morris Dance Group; and King worked with his Happy Apple combo, as well as 12 Rods. In August of 2001, the trio put aside their other projects and released The Bad Plus through Fresh Sound. It established them as a group unafraid to stray from the confines of jazz, but confident enough in their forays to make them stimulating, and not simply novelties. The debut was a critical success, garnering best-of honors from the New York Times and Chicago Reader, among others. An "official" bootleg followed in 2002, eventually going out of print. It was a particularly memorable performance at New York's Village Vanguard that led Columbia Records to sign the Bad Plus; in February of 2003, the label released These Are the Vistas which was produced by stranger-to-jazz and ex-Latin Playboy Tchad Blake. The album presented original compositions from each musician, as well as a few ringers from the musical world outside the borders of jazz. Their re-imaginations of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (which Iverson had reportedly never heard before), Blondie's "Heart of Glass," and Aphex Twin's "Flim" caused tails to wag, but it was the trio's powerful mixture of personality and performance that really defined them. The Bad Plus toured throughout spring and summer 2003 in support of their major-label debut. The band's second album, Give followed in spring 2004. For 2005's Suspicious Activity?, the band produced with album with Tchad Blake at RealWorld Studios in England. PROG followed in 2007. 从艺历程：Ethan Iverson、Reid Anderson 和 David King 于 1989 年首次合作，但在 2000 年成立了 The Bad Plus。乐队录制了他们的第一张专辑，这是一张在 Fresh Sound 上发行的同名专辑，只一起演出了三场。 哥伦比亚唱片公司的代表伊夫·博韦 （Yves Beauvais） 听到了 Village Vanguard 的现场表演，乐队于 2002 年与哥伦比亚签约。他们的主要唱片公司首张专辑《These Are the Vistas》于 2003 年发行。紧随其后的是 2004 年的 Give 和 2005 年的 Suspicious Activity？。 与哥伦比亚分道扬镳后，该乐队签约了 Heads Up Records（Telarc 的一个部门），并于 2007 年发行了专辑 Prog。2008 年初春，他们完成了下一张录音室专辑《For All I Care》的录制，该专辑由主唱 Wendy Lewis 主唱。它于 2008 年秋季在欧洲发布，并于 2009 年春季在美国发布。他们的专辑 Never Stop 于 2010 年 9 月发行。 三人组于 2010 年和 2011 年在杜克大学担任驻校艺术家。2011 年 3 月 24 日，他们在杜克雷诺兹剧院首演了伊戈尔·斯特拉文斯基的《春之祭》。 2014 年，在纽约 Village Vanguard 举行的一场音乐会被录制成视频并在 YouTube 上发布。 2017 年 4 月 10 日，乐队发表声明称，伊桑·艾弗森将于 2017 年底与乐队分道扬镳，奥林·埃文斯将从 2018 年 1 月 1 日起接替他担任钢琴。 2021 年 3 月 13 日，乐队在社交媒体上发布消息称，Orrin Evans 将离开乐队，“以自己的名义追求音乐，并将在 The Bad Plus 结束他的篇章”。他们指出，乐队将不再是“钢琴三重奏（至少目前）”，并且“他们期待着扩大合奏团，因为他们正在努力为下一张唱片创作音乐”。 2021 年 8 月，乐队公布了由吉他手 Ben Monder 和男高音萨克斯管演奏家 Chris Speed 组成的新阵容。他们于 2022 年 9 月 30 日发行了一张新专辑，简称为 The Bad Plus。