I saw The Bad Plus this week (home, Wikipedia, MySpace, blog). They are, for lack of a better term, a jazz trio that plays…well, at the show I saw they played Stravinsky, Ligeti, Milton Babbitt, some originals, and then a string of covers with the vocalist Wendy Lewis, including the Bee Gees (“How Deep is Your Love”), Wilco (“Radio Cure”), Pink Floyd (“Comfortably Numb”), U2 (“New Year’s Day”), Neil Young (“Heart of Gold”), Heart (“Barracuda”), and Nirvana (“Lithium”). A 2008 performance of Stravinsky is above. They are highly recommended.
