These Are the Vistas [SEP] record label
These Are the Vistas
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: Nirvanas "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Blondies "Heart of Glass,
signed to Columbia in 2002. Their major label debut album, "These Are the Vistas", was released in 2003. This was followed by "Give" in 2004 and "Suspicious Activity?" in 2005. After parting ways with Columbia, the group signed to Heads Up Records (a division of Telarc), and released the album "Prog" in 2007. In early Spring of 2008 they finished recording their next studio album, "For All I Care", which features vocalist Wendy Lewis. It was