BWW Reviews: THE BAD PLUS JOSHUA REDMAN Answers at The Vogue

It's that awake-and-thinking style of jazz that has become the peerless sonic pulse in the brainwaves of audiophiles around the globe. Unmistakable by name, The Bad Plus has galvanized the musical horizon, armed with nothing more than honest-to-goodness originality. Joshua Redman is the cherry on top.

Fresh, like a sound you can bite into and feel nourished. Nothing of the canned tack and carcinogen-laced aspartame maraschino, Redman's tenor is a coruscating scintillation on the theme of f yes.

As from a lofty peak, listeners can still hear the sweet spirituality of the tenor gods long ascended. If Coltrane had only come down from his ecstatic high of overtone harmonies and bellowing abstraction, his sound may have found a home reincarnated alongside Redman.

After tasteful jazz remixes that run the gamut of known music, from electronica to classical, punk to progressive, The Bad Plus is digging deep into the eternal questions of jazz. Pianist Ethan Iverson plays like the mind. Drummer David King is like the body, and bassist Reid Anderson like the heart. Redman is the soul.

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