Ethan Iverson

Ethan Iverson - Bud Powell In The 21st Century (2021) {Sunnyside SSC 1619}
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Jazz / Contemporary Jazz / Modern Big Band / Piano

Given that he was one of the primary architects of bebop—revered by Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Don Cherry, and so many others—it’s surprising to note that the piano giant Bud Powell only led one session with horns. On August 9, 1949, he, trumpeter Fats Navarro, tenor saxophonist Rollins, bassist Tommy Potter, and drummer Roy Haynes cut four tunes at WOR Studios in New York: Thelonious Monk’s “52nd Street Theme,” and Powell’s originals “Bouncing with Bud,” “Dance of the Infidels,” and “Wail.” Decades later, this session caught the ears of pianist, scholar, and JazzTimes columnist Ethan Iverson.

The Ethan Iverson Trio - The Minor Passions (1999) {Fresh Sound New Talent FSNT064CD}
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© 1999 Fresh Sound New Talent | FSNT 064CD
Jazz / Contemporary Jazz / Post Bop / Jazz Piano Trio

This album beautifully captures Iverson's prodigious intelligence, musicality, passion, and jazzy chutzpah. There's a wonderful translucence in many of the cuts on this album; melodic, harmonic and rhythmic layers are so clearly revealed on one surface, only to be mesmerizingly obfuscated on the next. You think you know where you are until you're suddenly swirling in unfamiliar though wonderously dark terrain. In "Lullaby", for example, Billy Hart's low rumbles, Reid Anderson's vicious, subtle plucks, and Iverson's piano lines weave in and out of one another, both independent and wholly cohesive, light and dark in texture, compositionally terse on the surface, but resonant with enormous structural and emotional depth. It's just stunning.

Ethan Iverson Trio (The Bad Plus) - Deconstruction Zone (Standards) (1998) {Fresh Sound New Talent FSNT 047 CD}
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© 1998, 2004 Fresh Sound New Talent | FSNT 047 CD
Jazz / Post Bop / Piano Trio

Life before 'The Bad Plus', when he had hair, playing 'standards' but not as you know them! Iverson´s first recordings for Fresh Sound are showcases for his working trio with Reid Anderson and Jorge Rossy. The originals are theatrical and the standards are treated with love and disrespect, Iverson´s trio´s performances are of concert hall proportions (Howard Mandel, Downbeat). Deconstruction Zone (Standards) was chosen as one of the best recordings of 1998 by Peter Watrous in the New York Times.

Costumes Are Mandatory is very collegially advertised as a collaborative album featuring Ethan Iverson, Lee Konitz, Larry Grenadier, and Jorge Rossy. And while the music may indeed be collaborative, even multi-improvisational at times, it's Iverson's date and he's very clearly the leader.

Tenorist Mark Turner and pianist Ethan Iverson, two resplendent titans of the current jazz scene, join forces for an intimate outing. Temporary Kings aggregates nine compositions - six by Iverson, two by Turner and one by Warne Marsh - that, besides bristling with competence, allow for space, reflection, and expansion…