The Bad Plus: Artfully drawn characters
Geoffrey Himes, Downbeat, January 2013
The Bad Plus is often described as a jazz-rock trio, but their recent studio album, Made Possible (eOne), is the first to use electric instruments. And even on this disc, the electric elements are so spare — a brief burst of electronic drums here, a splash of synth there — that they amount to little more than subtle flavoring of what is still an acoustic piano-trio record. So what explains the band's jazz-rock reputation?
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