In 2019, Matthew Tavares left BadBadNotGood, the progressive jazz fusion group he helped found 11 years ago. At the time, he painted his departure from BBNG as a positive, mutual decision.
But in a Saturday Instagram post comprising nine slides of Notes app screenshots, he detailed a contentious split and two years of bad blood between himself and the band. "I needed get out, I couldn't take it anymore," Tavares wrote, describing a negative environment in which he was made to feel expendable by co-founder and drummer Alexander Sowinski, especially after he went on hiatus from touring with the group.
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