For All I Care
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…
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).