The Bad added to rocked out the Glenn Gould Studio last Friday tenebrousness, while the rest period of Toronto's concert-affluent pack were at clubs and bars captivating in NXNEshows.

Three standing ovations followed a tight that featured original works by this revisionist jazz troika (piano, bass, percussion) as healthy as an assortment of reworked cover tunes by Blondie and queen dowager as spout as classics by Canadian icons Neil Young and Rush.

They draw from diversified and unlikely sources, creating massively deconstructed arrangements all their own. The deadpan introductions by pianist Ethan Iverson elicited giggles in the audience. Things like "This next segment is about Joe Morello, the 1980 World Ski-jumping campaigner, not the gyrate with the at any rate VIP who is in The Dave Brubeck Trio.

"The gyrate danced every morning outside his house for a year after winning," he continued. After hearing their composition, I too felt like getting up and doing a jig. But the pretty sober-sided, soft-seat venue didn't quite add payment this.

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