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Originally broadcast live from NPR's studio
4-A, this special edition of All Songs Considered features a performance by jazz trio The Bad Plus. Critics say the band's latest CD, These Are The Vistas is "one of the freshest sounding albums of the year... ...single handedly making jazz relevant again."

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The Bad Plus perform Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and explain how they went about reinventing the song. Drummer Dave King shows his water phone.

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The band talks about its beginnings and performs an original tune by pianist Ethan Iverson called "Cheney Pinata."

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The band talks about some of the artists who've influenced their own work, including Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus.

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Two final cuts from the band: "Dirty Blonde" by bassist Reid Anderson and "Layin' A Strip for the Higher Self State Line" by drummer Dave King.

The Bad Plus

CD: These Are the Vistas
Label: Columbia

Visit the official Bad Plus Web site.

See the original All Songs Considered feature slideshow on The Bad Plus from February 2003.

Hear the All Things Considered interview with The Bad Plus.

The Bad Plus

CD: Motel
Label: Fresh Sound

This is the band's debut release from 2001.

Charles Mingus

CD: Ah Um
Song: Self Portrait in Three Colors
Label: Sony

Duke Ellington/Charles Mingus/Max Roach

CD: Money Jungle
Song: Fleurette Africaine
Label: Blue Note

Prince

CD: Purple Rain
Song: The Beautiful Ones
Label: Warner Brothers

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