Give (The Bad Plus album)

Give
Studio album by The Bad Plus
Released	March 9, 2004 (2004-03-09)
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)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	75/100 [1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Pitchfork	(5.6/10) [3]
Rolling Stone	[4]
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

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
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 track

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
12.	"Knowing Me, Knowing You"	Benny Andersson, Stig Anderson, Björn Ulvaeus	4:23

Japanese bonus track

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
12.	"Every Breath You Take"	Sting	6:33

Personnel

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

References

1. "GIVE by The Bad Plus". Metacritic . metacritic.com. Retrieved March 14, 2017.
2. Matt, Collar. "Review: Give". Allmusic . Retrieved September 29, 2009.
3. Ubl, Sam (March 24, 2004). "The Bad Plus: Give". Pitchfork . Retrieved September 29, 2009.
4. David, Fricke (March 18, 2004). "The Bad Plus: Give". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on October 1, 2007. 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.