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Groups like the Bad Plus have made jazz covers cool again — maybe because one senses a true love for rock, not just its crossover potential. On their sixth CD, the inventive Minneapolis trio court disaster by adding a vocalist. Thankfully, she's Wendy Lewis, an indie-rock vet who floats Kurt...

2009 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

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Biography

Look solely at the instrumentation of the Bad Plus -- acoustic piano, upright bass, drums, no vocals -- and you'd think they were a jazz trio. While that assumption's not wrong, it doesn't do them justice. These quirky Midwesterners have jazz chops and jazz panache, but they apply those traits with the muscle of a rock band. Oh yeah, they play rock songs, too: Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" a...

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