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Josh Grossman, Artistic Director
Toronto Downtown Jazz

What's so good about The Bad Plus?

Submitted by Josh Grossman on Mon Apr 30 4:26pm
Artist: 
Bad Plus

I've been lucky enough to see The Bad Plus perform live a couple of times, and I have this to say: when a band is truly operating as a unit, it's as if the music is being made by some magical force. The musicians don't seem to be communicating; there are no obvious visual or aural cues being passed back and forth. Everything just kind of...happens. The Bad Plus is such a unit.

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