The Bad Plus
has been widely heralded for their innovative re-workings of rock, indierock, electronica, and modernist classical music. The group recently tackled
Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring in the multi-media production On Sacred Ground (cocommissioned by Duke Performances and Lincoln Center), and in the wake of fruitful collaborations with Joshua Redman, Bill Frisell, and Mark Morris, The Bad Plus now turn to a jazz classic with Science Fiction to honor the great master of jazz avantgarde. No strangers to the music of Ornette Coleman, the band had the opportunity to perform selections from Science Fiction at the Walker Arts Center with Coleman himself in the audience. Coleman praised their ability to interpret his own music and artistic philosophy with the signature Bad Plus style, calling it “The performance I enjoyed most…they all sounded like individuals in the way they expressed it for themselves.”
