{"id":1815,"date":"2008-08-22T10:56:40","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T15:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2008\/08\/22\/friday-tunes-the-bad-plus\/"},"modified":"2008-08-22T10:56:40","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T15:56:40","slug":"friday-tunes-the-bad-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/22\/friday-tunes-the-bad-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Tunes:  The Bad Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The addition of <a href=\"http:\/\/thebadplus.typepad.com\/\">The Bad Plus<\/a> to our blogroll got a positive review.  Here they are, recorded by some guy in the back of the room with a hand-held camera, playing Nirvana&#8217;s &#8220;Smells Like Teen Spirit.&#8221;  (Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kPQR-OsH0RQ\">the original<\/a>, and here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TsS811o21-k\">Paul Anka<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Usually I like my jazz a little less adulterated &#8212; and the Bad Plus have stirred up considerable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/05\/04\/AR2007050402288.html\">controversy<\/a>  by mixing in frequent pop covers along with their straight-ahead tunes.  But these guys are playful, intelligent, and infectious, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/talk\/2007\/12\/24\/071224ta_talk_remnick\">accomplished musicians<\/a>.  The blog is worth reading, too &#8212; here&#8217;s a thoughtful commentary on <a href=\"http:\/\/thebadplus.typepad.com\/dothemath\/2008\/05\/lennie-tristano.html\">Barack Obama and discrimination in jazz<\/a>.  Besides, it&#8217;s named &#8220;Do the Math&#8221;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The addition of The Bad Plus to our blogroll got a positive review. Here they are, recorded by some guy in the back of the room with a hand-held camera, playing Nirvana&#8217;s &#8220;Smells Like Teen Spirit.&#8221; (Here is the original, and here is Paul Anka.) Usually I like my jazz a little less adulterated &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}