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The Quiet Noise @ Iveagh Gardens

  • 23-07-2006 12:32pm
    #1
    Boombox*
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    Did anyone have the opportunity to see The Bad Plus on Saturday afternoon in The Iveagh Gardens? I don't get out much... but was midly excited to the approach of this gig. I felt the set-up was not for the Bad Plus as to appreciate this band there simply is a huge need for amplification of which there was none evident. I'm going back to my retreat to sit cross legged and sip schloer just like a nineteen eighty world champion.


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  • #2
    shatners basoon
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    Saw them play the Radisson in Galway on Friday. Fantastic gig, really enjoyed it. hadn't heard them before, (the Brad Mehldau Trio and the jarrett, Johnette & Peacock trio are about as close as i've gotten to post modern jazz trios) This blew me away however. I loved the compexities of the progressions, Ivererson (piano0 hel together the trio far better than any other pianist i've seen performing with a trio, almost using his left hand to accompany Anderson's bass and his right to assist King's driving rythms.

    Wasn't too much need for amplification at the gig tho, maybe it was just the venue. Except possibly to assist us in hearing the musicians over King's ferocious playing!!!

    Did you enjoy it then besides the inadequacies of sound? Its a pity they should screw it up. I thought the McCoy gig in the NCH was a bit screwy in terms of sound, depended where you were sitting but still. If you consider the number of top tier jazz performers we get here in Ireland (very very very few) its a travesty really that we can't even hear them right when they do come!


  • #3
    Boombox*
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    The gig was enjoyable. I suppose the importance that I place on The Bad Plus is my own personal taste in music. I would have really liked to see the band in a small intimate venue thus reducing the need for amplification and would thoroughly enjoy to hear the band in all their splendour acoustically.

    King is amazing. An winning olympian by any world standard. His inventiveness and intuition is a true success to the listeners understanding of the band.

    I wish I'd been at the Radisson gig but hopefully I'll see them again in a more intimate venue.


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