The Bad Plus & Wendy Lewis - For All I Care

(Heads Up) CD & 2LP
This behemoth of a jazz trio decides to again make a drastic break-screeching turnaround – on For All I Care they add vocalist Wendy Lewis. Continuing on their path of unmatched virtuosity, the playing here is insanely on point. The covers are still here — “Lithium” by Nirvana & Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” are, well, demolished in horrifically awesome ways — and so are the proggy intricacies (“Semi-Simple Variation”). As always, no overdubs or edits here, these dudes still cling to that seemingly vanishing vestige: they can play the shit out of their instruments.

Playing Alix Goolden Hall in March!!!