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- Summary: The rock-influenced piano trio's fifth album mixes originals with covers of songs by David Bowie ("Life On Mars"), Tears For Fears ("Everybody Wants To Rule The World") and Rush ("Tom Sawyer").
- Record Label: Heads Up
- Genre(s): Jazz
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Positive: 7 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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PROG, like all their recordings, is another collection of professionally played and well-produced tunes that present themselves to a potential mass audience with hectic grace, sober whimsy, fluent navigation of chaos and without the slightest shred of pomposity.
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BillboardEasily the most likable and listenable jazz album of 2007. [12 May 2007]
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The Bad Plus has yet to release a truly flawless LP, but each new record shows that time and touring has only made the trio tighter and better.
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Anyone who has already decided that jazz is dead, that the great innovators have come and gone, needs to listen to the Bad Plus to be proven dead wrong.
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Under The RadarYou'll come for the playful covers... and stay for the inventive originals. [#17, p.98]
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The New York TimesThis album confirms established Bad Plus ideals: directness, cohesiveness and a headlong approach to everything, including delicate emotional candor. [7 May 2007]
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It's not likely this music will age spectacularly well, but so what?
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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DarkoK.Jul 9, 2007
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