Is your Monday as bleary as mine? A tonic: go here to watch The Bad Plus rip through Babbitt’s “Semi-Simple Variations.” With dancing girls. Though I suspect the Broadway-connoisseur Babbitt would have liked a kick-line finale.
Is your Monday as bleary as mine? A tonic: go here to watch The Bad Plus rip through Babbitt’s “Semi-Simple Variations.” With dancing girls. Though I suspect the Broadway-connoisseur Babbitt would have liked a kick-line finale.
I knew Babbitt 15 years ago as a regular customer in my store (Princeton Record Exchange — I used to set aside first pressing DG LPs for him), and as a fellow member of the NJ Composers’ Guild. One time we got on a long discussion of Rita Hayworth movies, partly because Charles Amirkhanian was talking about George Anthiel’s doings with Hedy Lamarr.<><>So … no, this video ain’t out of place at all.
Bad Plus is playing at Berklee on April 3rd, and I’ve already got tickets.