Jazz Trio produced by Tchad Blake (Soul Coughing, Peter Gabriel, Elvis Costello, Paul McCartney) releases debut on Columbia Records.
This record is awesome! The Bad Plus are a jazz trio that utilizes piano, upright bass and drums. I've been trying to expand my tastes a bit by getting into some jazz and this is some pretty cool stuff. The Bad Plus have even recorded an interesting cover of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" which is arresting. The band also offers up Blondie and Aphex Twin covers. This disc is almost worth the 11 bucks I paid for it for the Nirvana and Blondie covers alone. The original material recorded by this trio is equally compelling. The production on These Are The Vistas is of course gorgeous given who produced it. This sounds sonically like I would expect a great jazz record to sound like. Not being an accomplished jazz connoisseur I can't do this much justice but I know I really like what I hear. Get this now!
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Other coverage for this album
The Phantom Tollbooth 2004Reviewed by Jeff CebulskiWhat used to be The Ethan Iverson Trio was turned into this version as the other two musicians--bassist Reid Anderson and drummer David King--were produced as equal parts in the mix. The result is a 21st century kind of Bill Evans Trio, where each player gets one channel of the mix as the group finds a way to amalgamate three distinct approaches, tied together by a common theme. For the most…Similar sounding releases
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