Give (The Bad Plus album)

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."

Give
Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 09, 2004
RecordedFall 2003 at Real World Studios, Box, Wiltshire, England
GenreJazz
Length52:23
LabelSony
ProducerTchad Blake, The Bad Plus
The Bad Plus chronology
These Are the Vistas
(2003)
Give
(2004)
Suspicious Activity?
(2005)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic75/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Pitchfork Media(5.6/10)[3]
Rolling Stone[4]
The Village VoiceA–[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[6]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."1979 Semi-Finalist"David King5:18
2."Cheney Piñata"Ethan Iverson4:49
3."Street Woman"Ornette Coleman3:58
4."And Here We Test Our Powers of Observation"Reid Anderson4:22
5."Frog and Toad"King3.37
6."Velouria"Charles Thompson5:37
7."Layin' a Strip For the Higher-Self State Line"King4:17
8."Do Your Sums/Die Like a Dog/Play For Home"Iverson5:05
9."Dirty Blonde"Anderson3:42
10."Neptune (The Planet)"Anderson5:30
11."Iron Man"Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi, Ozzy Osbourne, Bill Ward6:02

Depending on the pressing, one or both of the following tracks may appear as bonus tracks. The recording of "Knowing Me, Knowing You" is not the same as the one that appeared on The Bad Plus album.

Bonus track(s)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
12."Knowing Me, Knowing You"Benny Andersson, Stig Anderson, Björn Ulvaeus4:23
13."Every Breath You Take"Sting6:33

Personnel

References

  1. "GIVE by The Bad Plus". Metacritic. metacritic.com. Retrieved 14 March 2017.
  2. Matt, Collar. "Review: Give". Allmusic. Retrieved 29 September 2009.
  3. Ubl, Sam (24 March 2004). "The Bad Plus: Give". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 29 September 2009.
  4. David, Fricke (18 March 2004). "The Bad Plus: Give". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 29 September 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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