Reid Anderson

APPEARING: MANHATTAN MARATHON @ NUBLU

FRIDAY, January 13, 2023

Reid Anderson - electronics, Gregg BelisleChi - guitar, Tina Priceman - violin

Reid Anderson is a composer and bass player best known for his work in the genre-defying instrumental group The Bad Plus. Since its inception in 2001, the band has amassed widespread acclaim and created an uncompromising body of work that spans 15 studio albums and countless live performances. The Bad Plus are widely considered to be one of the most significant groups of their time and Anderson’s prolific work as a composer has defined their sound throughout the years.

Born in Minneapolis in 1970, Anderson began playing the acoustic bass at the age of 18. He was accepted into Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music one year after picking up the instrument and graduated in 1993. He moved to New York to pursue a career in jazz and has since performed and recorded with some of the most prominent musicians of his generation, including: Joshua Redman, Bill Frisell, Mark Turner, and Kurt Rosenwinkel. Anderson began to focus heavily on composition in New York and released three critically acclaimed albums of original music for the Spanish label, Fresh Sound New Talent, between 1997 and 2000. Two of these albums were on the New York Times’ Top 10 List for their respective years.

Anderson’s career has a number of standout moments, including a 2011 commission from Duke University and Lincoln Center for The Bad Plus to arrange and perform Stravinski’s, "The Rite of Spring." They have also composed for dance - writing and performing “Violet Cavern” for the Mark Morris Dance Group. In 2013 Anderson premiered his first evening length composition, "The Rough Mixes." This work for 2 violins, cello, drum set, electronics, and video was performed as part of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra's Liquid Music series. In 2020 he composed the music for the New York Times Podcast, “Nice White Parents.”

Along with his work in The Bad Plus, Anderson is a member of the ensemble Broken Shadows - which explores the music of Ornette Coleman, Julius Hemphill, Dewey Redman, and Charlie Haden - and the instrumental synth band, Golden Valley Is Now. Both of these groups released albums in 2019.

Reid Anderson will spend the remainder of 2022 touring with The Bad Plus in support of their fifteenth studio release and focusing on a new electronic music group with Gregg Belisle-Chi on guitar and Tina Priceman on violin.