These Are the Vistas

These Are the Vistas
Studio album by The Bad Plus
Released	February 11, 2003
Recorded	Real World Studios, September 30, 2002 - October 5, 2002
Genre	Jazz
Length	52:28
Label	Columbia
Producer	Tchad Blake, The Bad Plus
The Bad Plus chronology
The Bad Plus (2001) These Are the Vistas (2003) Give (2004)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	81/100 [1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Entertainment Weekly	A− [3]
Pitchfork Media	(7.0/10) [4]
Rolling Stone	[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[6]

These Are the Vistas is the second studio album 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." ^[7] The album features three cover songs: Nirvana 's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," Blondie 's "Heart of Glass," and Aphex Twin 's "Flim". In November 2009, NPR's All Songs Considered selected the album as one of the 50 "most important" recordings of the decade. ^[8]

Production

According to JazzTimes , producer-engineer Tchad Blake, "comes to [jazz] from the world of Los Lobos, Tom Waits and Pearl Jam" and "approaches These Are the Vistas with an ear for acoustic frictions. His firm but unobtrusive direction showcases the Bad Plus in a way that's somehow both huge-sounding and stripped-down." ^[9]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Big Eater"	Reid Anderson	3:53
2.	"Keep the Bugs Off Your Glass and the Bears Off Your Ass"	David King	5:49
3.	"Smells Like Teen Spirit"	Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic	5:57
4.	"Everywhere You Turn"	Anderson	4:56
5.	"1972 Bronze Medalist"	King	5:20
6.	"Guilty"	Ethan Iverson	5:35
7.	"Boo-Wah"	Iverson	3:55
8.	"Flim"	Richard D. James	4:05
9.	"Heart of Glass"	Deborah Harry, Chris Stein	4:47
10.	"Silence Is the Question"	Anderson	8:11

European and Japanese bonus track

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
11.	"What Love Is This"	Iverson	4:07

Personnel

• Ethan Iverson – piano
• Reid Anderson – acoustic bass
• David King – drums
• Tchad Blake – producer

References

1. "THESE ARE THE VISTAS by The Bad Plus". Metacritic . metacritic.com. Retrieved March 14, 2017.
2. Jarnow, Jesse. "Review: These Are the Vistas". Allmusic . Retrieved September 30, 2009.
3. Willman, Chris (May 2, 2003). "Music Review: These Are the Vistas (2003) by The Bad Plus". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved November 18, 2009.
4. Leone, Dominique (September 14, 2003). "The Bad Plus: These Are the Vistas". Pitchfork Media . Retrieved September 30, 2009.
5. Fricke, David (March 20, 2003). "The Bad Plus: These Are the Vistas". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007. Retrieved September 30, 2009.
6. Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 56. ISBN   978-0-14-103401-0.
7. Fusilli, Jim (February 21, 2003). "Music Review: 'These Are the Vistas' from The Bad Plus". All Things Considered . NPR Music . Retrieved November 18, 2009.
8. "The 50 Most Important Recordings: A-C". All Songs Considered . NPR Music . Retrieved November 18, 2009.
9. Chinen, Nate (March 2003). "Bad Plus: These Are the Vistas (Columbia Jazz)". JazzTimes . Retrieved November 18, 2009.