MARK STRYKER: Bad Plus links acoustic jazz with pop culture

The Bad Plus, an alt-acoustic piano trio, has won a wide following by maintaining a running dialogue with popular culture through canny covers of material by Black Sabbath, Nirvana and others. The band --pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson and drummer David King -- takes its familiar concept in a couple of intriguing directions on its latest record, "For All I Care" (Do the Math/Heads Up). On the one hand, vocalist Wendy Lewis joins the trio, upping the pop quotient for a set list incl...

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