Date: 14 March
Time: First show: Doors 6:30 PM / Music 7:00 PM. Second show: Doors 9pm / Music 9.30pm
Venue: The Cooler at The Complex, 12 Mary's Abbey, Dublin 7
Tickets: Due to phenomenal demand – a second show for Ethan Iverson this March 14th at The Cooler has been added. Tickets for the early show are now sold out, and tickets for the late show are on sale here.
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.
In this intimate show at The Cooler, Ethan presents a solo program: “Into the Dark.” Iverson has long been interested in film noir, mystery, science fiction and other dark genres. “Many of these compositions were created back then as ‘soundtracks’ for short stories,” Iverson says of the basis for the new program. For this program, he weaves a fascinating web of his own compositions and interpretations of well-known “dark” themes from film and television, including “Twin Peaks,” “Laura,” “Vertigo,” “Chinatown” and others.
Since leaving TBP, Iverson has kept busy. He co-curated a major centennial celebration of Thelonious Monk at Duke University, premiered the evening-length Pepperland with the Mark Morris Dance Group, premiered an original piano concerto with the American Composers Orchestra and released a duo album of new compositions with Mark Turner on ECM, amongst many other thing. His most recent release in trio 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.