Give (The Bad Plus album)

2004 studio album by The Bad Plus

Give

Studio album by

The Bad Plus

Released| March 09, 2004
Recorded| Fall 2003 at Real World Studios, Box, Wiltshire, England
Genre| Jazz
Length| 52:23
Label| Sony
Producer| Tchad Blake, The Bad Plus
The Bad Plus chronology
| These Are the Vistas
(2003)  | Give
(2004)  | Suspicious Activity?
(2005)

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Professional ratingsAggregate scores

Source| Rating
Metacritic| 75/100[1]
Review scores
Source| Rating
AllMusic| [2]
Pitchfork Media| (5.6/10)[4]
Rolling Stone| [3]
The Village Voice| A−[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings| [6]

Give is the third studio album released by The Bad Plus. It contains covers of Ornette Coleman's "Street Woman," The Pixies' "Velouria," and Black Sabbath's "Iron Man." The recording of "Knowing Me, Knowing You" on the European release is not the same as the one that appeared on The Bad Plus album.

## Track listing

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1.| "1979 Semi-Finalist"| David King| 5:18
2.| "Cheney Piñata"| Ethan Iverson| 4:49
3.| "Street Woman"| Ornette Coleman| 3:58
4.| "And Here We Test Our Powers of Observation"| Reid Anderson| 4:22
5.| "Frog and Toad"| King| 3:37
6.| "Velouria"| Charles Thompson| 5:37
7.| "Layin' a Strip For the Higher-Self State Line"| King| 4:17
8.| "Do Your Sums/Die Like a Dog/Play For Home"| Iverson| 5:05
9.| "Dirty Blonde"| Anderson| 3:42
10.| "Neptune (The Planet)"| Anderson| 5:30
11.| "Iron Man"| Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Bill Ward| 6:02

European bonus trackNo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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12.| "Knowing Me, Knowing You"| Benny Andersson, Stig Anderson, Björn Ulvaeus| 4:23

Japanese bonus trackNo.| Title| Writer(s)| Length

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12.| "Every Breath You Take"| Sting| 6:33

## Personnel

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* Ethan Iverson – piano
* Reid Anderson – double bass
* David King – drums
* Tchad Blake – producer

## References

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1. ^ "GIVE by The Bad Plus". Metacritic. metacritic.com. Retrieved March 14, 2017.
2. ^ Matt, Collar. "Review: Give". Allmusic. Retrieved September 29, 2009.
3. ^ David, Fricke (March 18, 2004). "The Bad Plus: Give". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on October 1, 2007. Retrieved September 29, 2009.
4. ^ Ubl, Sam (March 24, 2004). "The Bad Plus: Give". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved September 29, 2009.
5. ^ Hull, Tom (July 1, 2004). "Jazz Consumer Guide (1): All True, More or Less". The Village Voice. Retrieved June 22, 2020 - via tomhull.com.
6. ^ Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 56\. ISBN 978-0-14-103401-0.

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The Bad Plus

* Reid Anderson
* David King
* Ben Monder
* Chris Speed

* Ethan Iverson
* Orrin Evans

Albums|

* The Bad Plus (2001)
* These Are the Vistas (2003)
* Give (2004)
* Suspicious Activity? (2005)
* Prog (2007)
* For All I Care (2008)
* Never Stop (2010)
* Made Possible (2012)
* The Rite of Spring (2014)
* Inevitable Western (2014)
* The Bad Plus Joshua Redman (2015)
* It's Hard (2016)
* Never Stop II (2018)
* Activate Infinity (2019)

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