The perfect Imperfection: A Tribute to BADBADNOTGOOD
If there is one band who deserves writing a tribute article for, it is BADBADNOTGOOD (BBNG), the Canadian jazz band. Photo: swimfinfan , licensed under CC BY 2.0 . Wait a minute… jazz band? BBNG’s music cannot be simply defined as jazz, since it includes influences and elements of soul, hip-hop, even drum & bass. The original band members — Alex Sowinsky (drums) , Chester Hansen (bass) and Matthew Tavares (keyboards) — met each other in a jazz college in Toronto. Not all of their professors were not so fond of their music — so the story goes — because of the use of hip-hop and other genres not considered as traditional jazz music. “Very bad, not good,” some professors described the freshly formed band’s music, so it became an inside joke amongst the members: “Maybe our music is so bad that it’s good,” the young artists said, and so they coined their name: BADBADNOTGOOD . At least that is how the anecdote goes. We like the tale, so we left the fact-checking beh...
