The Bad Plus — Activate Infinity

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With 2018’s <i>Never Stop II</i>, this long-lived jazz power trio signalled a major change: Pianist and founding member Ethan Iverson was yielding the bench to Orrin Evans, acclaimed as a leader in his own right. The direct reference to 2010’s <i>Never Stop</i> conveyed a sense of uninterrupted progress, and indeed <i>Never Stop II</i> and its successor, <i>Activate Infinity</i>, have found the spirit and mission of the band intact. Once again the program is fully original, and there’s even a bit of catalogue-rummaging with a revisit of drummer Dave King’s “Thrift Store Jewelry” (from <i>Prog</i>) and bassist Reid Anderson’s “Love Is the Answer” (from the very first album, <i>Motel</i>), allowing Evans to put his own stamp on older material. Anderson’s “Avail”, “Slow Reactors” and “Undersea Reflection” are full of dynamism and a certain romantic-harmony-meets-rock ethos. Evans’ “The Red Door” and “Looking in Your Eyes”, respectively, have an infectious groove and a pristine, flowing, gradually unfolding melodicism. King’s “Dovetail Nicely”, fast and funky with an intricate metrical design, gets at one of the band’s most distinctive qualities, and certainly one of King’s as a drummer: the ability to play heavily intense music at moderate volume, animated by a necessary restraint.

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The Bad Plus

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  1. Avail 3:15
  2. Slow Reactors 5:51
  3. Thrift Store Jewelry 4:47
  4. The Red Door 4:02
  5. Looking in Your Eyes 3:58
  6. Dovetail Nicely 5:07
  7. Undersea Reflection 3:00
  8. Love is the Answer 7:34