"By any standard, jazz or otherwise, it is moving, mighty music...bad to the bone, hot players with hard-rock hearts."
- Rolling Stone
"...After three years of steady work, that shit is deep. If the stars align, they will mow you down."
- The Village Voice
"If the Coen Brothers put together a jazz trio, perhaps it would be like this, the comic and the dramatic rolled together."
- The Guardian
"Better than anyone at mixing the sensibilities of post-60's jazz and indie rock....."
- The New York Times
"Audacious, rule-breaking jazz trio crunches and at times pulverizes swing to let improvisational freedom shine...Dynamics play a huge roll in the act's music, as does humor, an element sorely lacking in most of contemporary jazz. But beauty is also key... jazz purists tremble while the vanguard flocks."
- Billboard
"Bigger and more audacious...somewhere between refreshing and downright awe-inspiring."
- CMJ Monthly
"The Bad Plus is a tradition and a genre unto itself."
- New York Sun
"...high art, not pop gimmickry...The Bad Plus embrace sonic adventure without selfish avant-gardism...seething with funky new-millennium rhythms and succulent harmonic flights."
- Entertainment Weekly
"So, if this piano trio wants to play as loud as a rock band...well, let 'em rip....these bad boys have the musicianship to back up their attitude."
- The New Yorker
"The Bad Plus are an acoustic jazz trio for the future."
- Blender
"The band conveys moods rather than showing off, and the resultis an enthralling celebration of chaos. Like the best jazz, the music here never sounds quite the same on repeat listening...With the most distinctive sound of any three-piece outfit since Nirvana, The Bad Plus again demonstrate vitality few bands--rock, jazz, or whatever--can match."
- Amplifer
"The Bad Plus are a reminder that American jazz hasn't gone to sleep. Play any of their albums and their collective sound leaps out of your speaker, steps all over your furniture and scares the bejesus out of the cat."
- Observer Music Monthly
"The Bad Plus arrives like a bolt out of the blue---galvanic, improbable, discrete, unforeseen."
- JazzTimes
"Can one album single handedly make jazz relevant again? Should you care? One listen to The Bad Plus's 'These Are The Vistas' will damn sure make you care."
- Esquire
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