Ethan Iverson is a pianist, composer, and critic best known for his work in the avant-garde Jazz trio The Bad Plus with bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King.
At age 15 Ethan opened for Ray Charles. In 2019, Iverson and trumpeter Tom Harrell released the album Common Practice, recorded at the Village Vanguard, on ECM. Iverson also served as an artistic director of the 2019 Jazz te Gast festival in the Netherlands, at which his orchestral piece Solve for X premiered.
In 2021, Iverson’s album Bud Powell in the 21st Century, featuring Ingrid Jensen, Dayna Stephens, Ben Street, Lewis Nash, and the Umbria Jazz Orchestra, was released on Sunnyside Records.
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