After the Bad Plus tackled an interpretation of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” on their last album, the avant-jazz trio was happy not to have any specific direction in mind for their latest, “Inevitable Western.” The Minneapolis group premieres the album today on Speakeasy.

“After putting in all that work and thought and energy into doing the Stravinsky, it was just a sense of relief and fun to get back to our own world and not have to be concerned with that level of mathematics and so forth,” bassist Reid Anderson tells Speakeasy.

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