Ethan Iverson Trio - Technically Acceptable

Technically Acceptable

On his new album 'Technically Acceptable' Ethan Iverson does everything you can expect from a jazz pianist: there are blues, there are rhythmic shifts, dynamic improvisations, a variation on a pop hit and a standard by Thelonious Monk. Yet Iverson wouldn't be himself if he didn't put a quirky twist on all this. For example, he presents a real piano sonata in addition to a '60s variant of the ballad 'Killing Me Softly' and a version of 'Round Midnight' in which the theremin provides the melody.

Legendary jazz label

'Technically Acceptable' is Iverson's 2nd album on the legendary jazz label Blue Note and was released more than thirty years after his debut album as a solo artist, School Work. In the meantime, he celebrated great success with The Bad Plus. This piano trio caused a stir with idiosyncratic music arrangements outside the genre, from Nirvana via Aphex Twin to Ligeti and Stravinsky. Since he departed from that group, Iverson has presented the live project 'Bud Powell in the 21st Century' and albums with Mark Turner and Tom Harrell on ECM Records.