Ethan Iverson is a pianist, composer and critic: an authentic intellectual of music. Iverson has become famous in the jazz world for being a member of The Bad Plus. The trio had the merit to renovate – Iverson’s contribution was fundamental – the language of the classic piano-double bass-drums formula. Iverson has performed multiple times at Umbria Jazz, in piano solo at the Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria and with Joshua Redman. He has also played with the quartet of cult musician Billy Hart. For Umbria Jazz, Iverson has created interesting projects with the Festival orchestra, such as the one on Bud Powell and “Ritornello, Sinfonias & Cadenzas”, a reinterpretation of classical structures with the jazz language. He then arranged Burt Bacharach’s famous songs for Dianne Reeves, always with the Umbria Jazz Orchestra. This new project, “Simply Cinematic”, consists of a reinterpretation of film music. Iverson performs in this project with his trio, including Thomas Morgan on double bass and Kush Abadey on drums.
