"[5] Chris Barton of Los Angeles Times mentioned, "The Bad Plus mostly set aside improvisation in an effort to capture Stravinsky’s modernist vision, but in some ways it’s never sounded freer.

The trio have been mapping out this version in concert for years, and you could never accuse them of scaling this mountain without planning ahead of time.

But the Rite should elicit gasps, not cock eyebrows—the latter of which is the most extreme reaction the Bad Plus manage to provoke.

It's ironic that after tackling (and matching) Black Sabbath and Nirvana, it would be Stravinsky that would finally make the Bad Plus sound positively tame.

"[4] Zachary Woolfe wrote in The New York Times, "a suavely hallucinatory Coltrane/Coleman flavor ... confident playing that makes for fun listening ... for sheer strangeness and shock, Stravinsky’s original keeps outdoing its descendants.