These Are the Vistas (2003)

The Bad Plus, three Midwesterners working out of New York, shattered polite jazz-club decorum on their major-label debut. Ethan Iverson's jagged chords, Reid Anderson's booming bass riffs and Dave King's rock-loud drumming collide as equals, and their reworking of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit is the easiest way to hear how they share a tune between them.