These Are The Vistas - The Bad Plus
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  • Summary: This is not your ordinary jazz trio. For their major-label debut, The Bad Plus work with alt-rock producer Tchad Blake, and include covers of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Blondie's "Heart of Glass," and Aphex Twin's "Flim" among their seven original tracks.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 16
  2. Negative: 0 out of 16
  1. With equal measures of beauty, terror, and comedy in their own stuff, there's plenty going on besides stunt covers. [2 May 2003, p.71]
  2. Amidst all the fun is a dynamic record that holds your attention.
  3. Far from essential, but... a good jazz starting point for the unitiated. [Mar 2003, p.90]

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 3
  3. Negative: 0 out of 3

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