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Bad Plus originally developed as a trio with pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson, and drummer Dave King. That band recorded 14 albums and became popular with avant garde sensibility alongside covers of tunes by Nirvana, Johnny Cash, and Igor Stravinsky. Iverson quit the band and was replaced by pianist Orrin Evans, who recorded another two albums with them before departing to pursue his own music. At that point, The Bad Plus dropped the “piano trio,” descriptor and added two new members: guitarist Ben Monder and saxophone/clarinet specialist Chris Speed.