About this Event
Pianist, composer, and writer Ethan Iverson was a founding member of The Bad Plus, a game-changing collective with Reid Anderson and David King. The New York Times called TBP “Better than anyone at melding the sensibilities of post-60’s jazz and indie rock.” During his 17-year tenure, TBP performed in venues as diverse as the Village Vanguard, Carnegie Hall, and Bonnaroo; collaborated with Joshua Redman, Bill Frisell, and the Mark Morris Dance Group; and created a faithful arrangement of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and a radical reinvention of Ornette Coleman’s Science Fiction.
Since leaving TBP, Iverson has kept busy. 2017: Co-curated a major centennial celebration of Thelonious Monk at Duke University and premiered the evening-length Pepperland with the Mark Morris Dance Group. 2018: premiered an original piano concerto with the American Composers Orchestra and released a duo album of new compositions with Mark Turner on ECM. 2019: Common Practice with Tom Harrell (ECM), standards tracked live at the Village Vanguard. 2021: Bud Powell in the 21st Century, a vigorous reconsideration of the bebop master, is featured on the March cover of DownBeat. 2022: The current release is Every Note is True on Blue Note records, an album of original work in trio with Larry Grenadier and Jack DeJohnette.
Iverson also has been in the critically-acclaimed Billy Hart quartet for well over a decade and occasionally performs with elder statesmen like Albert “Tootie” Heath or Ron Carter or collaborates with noted classical musicians like Miranda Cuckson and Mark Padmore. For almost 20 years, Iverson’s website Do the Math has been a repository of musician-to-musician interviews and analysis. Time Out New York selected Iverson as one of 25 essential New York jazz icons: “Perhaps NYC’s most thoughtful and passionate student of jazz tradition—the most admirable sort of artist-scholar.” Iverson has also published articles about music in the New Yorker, NPR, The Nation, and JazzTimes. Iverson resides in Park Slope with his wife Sarah Deming.
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MARTA SANCHEZ I
Of Sanchez's other originals, "If You Could
Alex LoRe is a major asset, often sounding quite Create It' is relatively playful yet purposeful, relaxed and laid-back even while improvising
Filiú and bassist Rashaan Carter star on a som-
over the most dissonant backgrounds.
The opener, "The Unconquered Vulnerable
ber "The Hard Balance," "December 11th" has a tango feel and a sparkling piano solo, and the
Areas," has a soothing theme before it builds in
closer "When Dreaming Is The Only" is high-
suspense and tension. LoRe shows that he can hit high notes with ease while Filiú has a stormy
lighted by the interplay of the saxophonists.
It is a bit surprising that Sanchez's music
and stirring tradeoff with Sanchez.
has not been featured with a big band, for her
"Dear Worthiness" is a thoughtful and dark
complex yet often surprisingly accessible com-
piece about self-doubt that includes a fluent alto
positions would benefit from all of the poten-
SAAM (SPANISH AMERICAN ART MUSEUM)
solo and some pretty expressive playing by the tial tone colors. leader.
Marta Sanchez
SAAM (Spanish American
Art Museum)
"SAAM" is filled with dissonance and the
For now, SAAM serves as an excellent
assertive drums of Allan Mednard, while the
introduction to her writing.
—Scott Yanow
harmonized horns on the ballad "The
was written as a message to
A fine pianist who is a particularly inventive
Sanchez's mother, whom she was not able to
Personnel: Marta Sanchez, piano;
arranger-composer, Marta Sanchez has led a visit in Spain during her last days because of the pandemic. Marta returns to Palo Alto after appearances with Earthwise at The Mitch as a duo and Lytton Plaza as a quartet in previous years.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Mitchell Park Community Center, 3700 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, United States
USD 4.25 to USD 18.00
