BadBadNotGood

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BadBadNotGood
BadBadNotGood at the Haldern Pop Festival 2017
BadBadNotGood at the Haldern Pop Festival 2017
General information
origin Toronto , Canada
Genre (s) Jazz fusion , hip hop , jazz funk , post bop , electronica
founding 2010
Website badbadnotgood.com
Current occupation
Chester Hansen
Alexander Sowinski
Leland Whitty (since 2016)
former members
Matthew A. Tavares (until 2019)
Live and session members
James Hill (since 2016)

BadBadNotGood is a Canadian instrumental - band , the genres hip hop and jazz is attributed. The band, founded in 2010, consists of bassist Chester Hansen, saxophonist Leland Whitty and drummer Alexander Sowinski. The pianist and keyboardist Matthew A. Tavares left in 2019.

history

Badbadnotgood in 2012

Matthew Tavares, Alexander Sowinski and Chester Hansen met while studying jazz at Humber College in Toronto and discovered their love for hip-hop. Her influences include rap groups such as The Roots , Three 6 Mafia and Mos Def as well as jazz classics such as Bill Evans , John Coltrane and Scott LaFaro . After it was founded, the BadBadNotGood trio began recording instrumental jazz versions of hip-hop pieces, using musicians such as J Dilla , Nas and Kanye West in the catalog .

With these cover versions they recorded their debut album BBNG in 2011 , which was released via download. The band's music initially spread widely on the Internet, including praise from Tyler, the Creator , who shortly thereafter recorded a session with BadBadNotGood himself. The follow-up album BBNG2 from 2012 already consisted to a large extent of own compositions; but there were also new interpretations of pieces by Joy Division , James Blake and My Bloody Valentine , among others .

In 2014 published BadBadNotGood on the label Innovative Leisure with III their first album, which consisted entirely of original compositions. The work was consistently received positively by the critics. The follow-up album Sour Soul was created in 2015 in collaboration with Ghostface Killah .

At the beginning of 2016, multi-instrumentalist Leland Whitty (including flute , clarinet , saxophone , vibraphone , violin ) joined the band. In July of the same year, the release of the studio album IV took place. Guest musicians include Mick Jenkins , Kaytranada and Colin Stetson .

reception

BadBadNotGood occasionally attracted attention in critical circles with critical comments on the training of young jazz musicians. Pianist Matthew A. Tavares accused the college scene of an exaggerated focus on tradition and technical skills and a lack of individualism and familiarity with current musical developments. He also attacked the pianist Robert Glasper , who also works in the border area between jazz and hip-hop, with similar allegations.

The statements provoked clear contradictions, for example from Peter Hum in the Ottawa Citizen and from Alex Rodriguez, who accused the band of not being aware of the racist implications of these statements. Peter Margasak denounced the musical quality of BadBadNotGood in the Chicago Reader and described her music as a jazz substitute for hip-hop fans and jazz for people who would never have heard real jazz. Anthony Dean-Harris defended BadBadNotGood on nextbop.com against these allegations and described them as good musicians from a new generation who are simply no longer so familiar with the subject of racism , but who appeal to a large audience and also musically could develop further.

Discography

Studio albums

  • BBNG (2011)
  • BBNG2 (2012)
  • III (2014)
  • Sour Soul (with Ghostface Killah ; 2015)
  • IV (2016)

Live albums

  • BBNGLive (2011)
  • BBNGLive 2 (2012)

Extended plays

  • The Odd Future Sessions (2011)
  • The Odd Future Sessions Part 2 (2011)

Compilations

  • Late Night Tales: BadBadNotGood (2017)

Singles

  • Fall in Love (2011)
  • BBNG Single (2011)
  • Flashing Lights / UWM (2013)
  • Six Degrees (with Ghostface Killah; 2014)
  • Can't Leave the Night / Sustain (2014)
  • Velvet / Boogie No. 69 (2015)
  • Here & Now / Timewave Zero (2016)
  • Tried (with Little Dragon; 2017)
  • Key to Love (Is Understanding) (2020)

Web links

Commons : BadBadNotGood  - collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Jerell Tongson: Rotten Decay: BADBADNOTGOOD Is Re-Defining the Genre , Huffington Post April 13, 2012, viewed April 23, 2015
  2. ↑ Anupa Mistry: Odd Jazz Covers , Now Toronto on September 15, 2011, viewed on April 23, 2015
  3. ↑ a b Anupa Mistry: BADBADNOTGOOD , Now Toronto on March 22, 2012, viewed on April 23, 2015
  4. ^ Paul Lester: Jazz - New Band of the Week: BADBADNOTGOOD , The Guardian , April 18, 2012, viewed April 23, 2015
  5. ↑ Metacritic : BadBadNotGood, III , seen on April 23, 2015
  6. ↑ Patrick Jarenwattananon: Around The Jazz Internet: April 6, 2012 , National Public Radio on April 6, 2012, viewed April 23, 2015
  7. ↑ Chris Barton: The Odd Future-endorsed sound of BadBadNotGood comes to the Mint , Los Angeles Times on April 17, 2012, seen on April 23, 2015
  8. ↑ Peter Margasak: BadBadNotGood: Odd Future collaborations do not equal groundbreaking jazz , Chicago Reader 5 August 2012, seen on April 23, 2015
  9. ↑ Anthony Dean-Harris: How Do We Solve a Problem Like BBNG? nextbop.com, as seen on April 23, 2015