The Bad Plus
Atwood Music Hall 1925 Winnebago St., Madison, Wisconsin 53704
$35 ($30 adv.).
media release: The Bad Plus have unveiled an additional slate of international live dates to their ongoing 2026 Farewell Tour. Newly announced highlights include a three-night stand at Tokyo, Japan’s Blue Note Tokyo (October 17-19), a series of eagerly awaited shows in Australia marking the current lineup’s Down Under debut, and a very special final Big Apple performance in the round at New York City’s Le Poisson Rouge (November 12). The Bad Plus will officially call it a career by returning to the city where the band was founded for a five-night, 10-show Farewell Tour finale at Minneapolis, MN’s Dakota on December 23, 25-28. All tickets are on sale now. For complete details and ticket availability, please visit www.thebadplus.com/tour.
The Bad Plus – which currently sees founding bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King joined by Ben Monder (guitars) and Chris Speed (saxophones) – has spent much of the past year saying goodbye to fans around the world with dates across North America, Europe, and the United Kingdom. Upcoming highlights include sure-to-be-memorable festival performances at Newport, RI’s venerable Newport Jazz Festival (August 2) and Monterey, CA’s Monterey Jazz Festival (September 27).
The Bad Plus have spent their groundbreaking lifespan reimagining music in their own boldly original style, always challenging convention while propelling jazz in boundary-breaking new directions. Now, after more than a quarter-century and three distinct iterations, founding bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King have decided to call an end to the critically acclaimed, world-renowned group’s one-of-a-kind career.
“The Bad Plus has been a band for 26 years,” say Reid Anderson and Dave King. “That’s quite a long time! As we enter into year 27 – after a great deal of soul searching and consideration – we have decided to bring this chapter to a close. 2026 will be the final year of The Bad Plus. We share this news with heavy hearts, but also with great pride in what we have accomplished. It has been a privilege to share our music with the world and we leave behind a body of work that we could not be more proud of.
“We look forward to performing our final shows throughout the coming year and hope to see as many of you as possible. This band changed our lives. Thank you all for being a part of that.”
