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Ethan Iverson

Ethan Iverson

Awards and Recognition

DownBeat 62nd Annual Critics Poll: Best Jazz Group, #2 The Bad Plus

DownBeat 62nd Annual Critics Poll: Top 10 Record of the Year, The Bad Plus—The Rite of Spring

Ethan Iverson

Division: College

Department: Faculty, Jazz Studies

Instrument: Piano

Pianist Ethan Iverson joined New England Conservatory's jazz studio faculty in 2016.

Ethan Iverson is best known as one-third of The Bad Plus, a game-changing collective with Reid Anderson and David King. The New York Times called TBP “…Better than anyone at melding the sensibilities of post-’60s jazz and indie rock.” TBP has performed in venues as diverse as the Village Vanguard, Carnegie Hall, and Bonnaroo; and created a faithful arrangement of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and a radical reinvention of Ornette Coleman’s Science Fiction (the latter with Tim Berne, Ron Miles, and Sam Newsome).

In addition to TBP, Iverson participates in the critically-acclaimed Billy Hart quartet with Mark Turner and Ben Street, and occasionally performs with an elder statesman like Albert “Tootie” Heath or Ron Carter. For a decade Iverson’s blog Do the Math has been a repository of musician-to-musician interviews and analysis, which is surely one reason Time Out New York selected Iverson as one of 25 essential New York jazz icons: “Perhaps NYC’s most thoughtful and passionate student of jazz tradition—the most admirable sort of artist-scholar.”

Curriculum Vitae

  • DownBeat 62nd Annual Critics Poll: Best Jazz Group, #2 The Bad Plus
  • DownBeat 62nd Annual Critics Poll: Top 10 Record of the Year, The Bad Plus—The Rite of Spring

Affiliated Departments and Programs

Jazz Studies