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'Famously disrespectful pop covers with atmospheric originals, and fascinating improv dissections of classical music.'

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'Honk some tonk with The Bad Plus. Ostensibly a 'jazz' trio, though genre-labelling doesn't come close to précising this US piano / bass / drums-combo, about as likely to drop a mooching, slinky lounge cover of Nirvana's 'Lithium' as they are to rattle off a thundering, out-yer-seats tempest of muscular, freewheeling, smile-drawing improvisation. Go see.'

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Sounds like no other jazz: bizarro-world indie-rock-jazz of ferocious energy and undeniable genius.

'[With] the most distinctive sound of any three-piece outfit since Nirvana, The Bad Plus demonstrate vitality few bands - rock, jazz, or whatever - can match.'
AMPLIFIER MAGAZINE

An audacious, irreverent and rule-breaking piano/bass/drums three-piece reinvented as a rock power trio, The Bad Plus is downright awe-inspiring, ripping into provocative covers (Blondie, Bowie, Black Sabbath) and muscular, ambitious originals alike with a combination of Swiss-watch precision, ensemble dexterity and reckless abandon.

Hinging on the time-bending feats of agility by maniacal drummer Dave King, and Reid Anderson's dark, propulsive acoustic bass line, The Bad Plus is the loudest, most hard rocking acoustic trio in the music's history, its songs building to a dynamic, sometimes thunderous, climax that lift King and pianist Ethan Iverson out of their seats to follow where inspiration lead.

Pushing the sonic envelope all over the map, and with a collective sound that leaps off the stage, steps all over the furniture, and scares the bejesus out of your brain, this is not your granddaddy's jazz.

'By any standard, jazz or otherwise, it is mighty music … bad to the bone, hot players with hard-rock hearts. About as badass as highbrow gets.' ROLLING STONE

'If the Coen Brothers put together a jazz trio, perhaps it would be like this, the comic and the dramatic rolled together.' THE GUARDIAN