Category: TCJF

© Andrea Canter “Electrifyingly new and strangely familiar at the same time…with his mix of modern sounds and old-fashioned feeling, Raymond is steering jazz in the right direction.”––Downbeat Magazine Even as a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, trumpeter John Raymond exuded an unusual degree of commitment to his craft, apparent in his playing […]

© Andrea Canter “The Bad Plus have always been a band in the truest sense – a group of passionate collaborators with no single “leader”. That spirit will continue in full-force…” The Bad Plus After 18 years of collaboration, global touring, acclaimed recordings, even controversy as to their relationship to “real jazz,” The Bad Plus […]