Released February 11, 2003 These Are The Vistas
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(2004) Release date 11 February 2003 Label Columbia Records | Length 52:28 Artist The Bad Plus Producer Tchad Blake Genre Jazz | |
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Recorded Real World Studios, September 30, 2002 - October 5, 2002 Similar The Bad Plus albums, Jazz albums | ||
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These Are the Vistas was the second studio album released by the jazz trio The Bad Plus, and the band's first album for a major label (Columbia Records). The album was the listening public's first widespread opportunity to hear the band, which Jim Fusilli of the Wall Street Journal called a "jazz power trio with a rock-and-roll heart." The album features several cover songs: Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Blondie's "Heart of Glass," and Aphex Twin's "Flim". In November 2009, NPR's All Songs Considered selected the album as one of the 50 "most important" recordings of the decade.
Contents
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Production
According to JazzTimes, producer-engineer Tchad Blake, "comes to [jazz] from the world of Los Lobos, Tom Waits and Pearl Jam" and "approaches These Are the Vistas with an ear for acoustic frictions. His firm but unobtrusive direction showcases the Bad Plus in a way that's somehow both huge-sounding and stripped-down."
Track listing
- "Big Eater" (Anderson) – 3:53
- "Keep The Bugs Off Your Glass And The Bears Off Your Ass" (King) – 5:49
- "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (Nirvana) – 5:57
- "Everywhere You Turn" (Anderson) – 4:56
- "1972 Bronze Medalist" (King) – 5:20
- "Guilty" (Iverson) – 5:35
- "Boo-Wah" (Iverson) – 3:55
- "Flim" (Richard D. James) – 4:05
- "Heart of Glass" (Deborah Harry, Chris Stein) – 4:47
- "Silence Is The Question" (Anderson) – 8:11
- "What Love Is This" (Iverson) (bonus track)
Personnel
Songs
1Big Eater3:54
2Keep the Bugs Off Your Glass and the Bears Off Your Ass5:49
3Smells Like Teen Spirit5:57