All About Jazz — If you are The Bad Plus, and you’ve spent your acclaimed and wacky career dismantling pop and jazz tunes down to their barely recognizable components—spreading those components around like bike pieces on a garage floor and building them back together into a state that bears only occasional resemblances to its source material—it is not the easiest thing in the world to advertise for helpers.
But when the band found itself looking to employ a singer for the first time, the hiring process was surprisingly speedy. “We felt like it was time for something different, (but) we didn’t want to get a jazz singer,” says bassist Reid Anderson. “We wanted someone with a direct approach, because that’s really what we do as well.”
The Extended Review, over at All About Jazz.
• The Bad Plus (joined by Wendy Lewis) — Lithium (Nirvana cover).mp3
• The Bad Plus (joined by Wendy Lewis) — Feeling Yourself Disintegrate (Flaming Lips cover).mp3
Jeff Vrabel is a humor columnist for the GateHouse news service, editor-in-chief of Hilton Head Monthly magazine and a music writer whose work has appeared in Paste, RollingStone.com, Billboard, Playboy, All About Jazz, No Depression, the Chicago Sun-Times, Backstreets, brucespringsteen.net and several furious Neil Diamond fan message boards. 
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