For All I Care

AlbumJul 07 / 200912 songs, 49m 26s
Jazz Vocal Jazz
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Jazz cognoscenti knock The Bad Plus—pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson, and drummer Dave King—for lacking sincerity, thanks to the group's frequent, irreverent recasting of classic-rock warhorses such as Blondie's "Heart Of Glass" and Black Sabbath's "Iron Man." But if anything, the group's sixth studio disc…

6.6 / 10

It’s a “your peanut butter’s in my chocolate” musical conundrum...

That the Bad Plus have recorded pop covers since their inception as a piano/bass/drums trio is a given in their M.O. The Minnesota-based trio has consistently added tunes by Blondie, Queen, Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Ornette Coleman, and Burt Bacharach to their albums -- in addition to their own compositions -- as they've gone about reinventing the piano trio sound and dynamic in jazz (they have become the loudest, most hard rocking acoustic trio in the music's history).

4 / 10

There really hasn't been a deal-breaker like this in a long, long time.