Since forming in 2000, the Bad Plus have grown from upstart into institution, one of the few contemporary jazz acts to show up on the mainstream radar in the years before the To Pimp a Butterfly watershed. The trio's early buzz centered on their sometimes radically reworked covers of rock and pop standards (from "Smells Like Teen Spirit" to "Heart of Glass" and "Iron Man"), but from the
This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Review: Jazz Standouts the Bad Plus Weather a Lineup Change With Grace on ‘Never Stop II’