DAVE KING

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The Bad Plus’s Dave King Releases Humor-Filled “Rational Funk??? Video Series

Dave King, composer and drummer with accomplished jazz and rock groups including the Bad Plus, Dave King Trucking Co., and Halloween, Alaska has launched a new video series that challenges the conventions of music tutorials on YouTube. Created by King…

Modern Drummer
Jan 19, 2015

Dave King of the Bad Plus: Web-Exclusive Interview

by Michael Parillo   To read the Dave King cover story from the October 2012 issue of Modern Drummer, pick up a back issue or order a copy from the App Store.   “I’ve always been attracted to the mystery…

Modern Drummer
Dec 4, 2012

The October 2012 Issue of Modern Drummer featuring The Bad Plus' Dave King

(available on newsstands September 6, 2012) Dave King of The Bad Plus Featuring Dennis Wilson  Setting Sights: Nate Smith Update Adler's Steven Adler The Figgs' Pete Hayes Influences Bernard Purdie What Do You Know About...? Sweet's Mick Tucker Spotlight Drum Channel Education Concepts—Maximize…

Modern Drummer
Aug 27, 2012

South Florida Jazz Concludes Its 2011-12 Concert Series with The Bad Plus on June 9th

South Florida's premier modern jazz organization has been privileged to present some of the most creative musicians in modern jazz this year and fittingly concludes the season with The Bad Plus, a genre-busting piano bass and drums trio of highly…

Modern Drummer
May 23, 2012

Web Update News

  John Tempesta is in the studio working on a new Cult record. For more on John go to moderndrummer-com.go-vip.net/2010/11/john-tempesta-2/. 311 have a new studio album out, Universal Pulse, produced by Bob Rock (Aerosmith, Metallica) and mixed by drummer Chad…

Modern Drummer
Sep 1, 2011
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Now, what's on the MD editors' musical minds this month...

Associate Editor Michael Parillo I'm going to focus on live music this time, because I was lucky enough to see two wonderful bands and two amazing drummers in NYC last month. First up was BRIAN BLADE and the Fellowship at…

Modern Drummer
Oct 10, 2010

Dave King of The Bad Plus

Great musicians, regardless of style, should electrify and challenge. The Bad Plus’s Dave King achieves both goals on the trio’s fourth album, PROG. They create intricate improvisations from material as diverse as David Bowie’s “Life On Mars” and Rush’s “Tom…

Modern Drummer
Sep 5, 2007
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