Ethan Iverson

Composer and pianist Ethan Iverson has proven to be quite an omnivore of jazz throughout his career. His appetite stretches further outside of jazz, prompting him to regularly create distinct hybrids with classical music, pop, and rock. As a founding member of The Bad Plus, he spent a good amount of time exploring avant-garde jazz as well as producing bold adaptations of popular songs by the likes of Nirvana or The Pixies, until his departure in 2017. His solo career often finds him trying different styles and sounds, engaging in collaborations that take him from chamber style duets to bebop tributes and moving fluidly between hard bop, post bop, and classical music crossovers. A constant that remains in his music across all these stylistic shifts has been the centrality of melody to his music, along with his deliberate approach and expressive use of the piano.