Owners of jazz’s most horribly cumbersome acronym, MOPDTK return in typically disruptive fashion with their second piano trio date. Previous releases have seen the New York band sharpening their pitchforks for smooth jazz and re-recording Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue note-by-note. They’re virtuosos with a trenchant belief in upsetting the applecart.

That principle applies to Disasters Vol. 1: each track is the name of a small town in Pennsylvania (a running gag that began on 2008 album This Is Our Moosic) with its own disaster story to tell, but it’s not just the jazz tradition that’s in the firing line here. Status Quo’s blues rock is a regular point of departure, the best in a series of pastiches that MOPDTK nail. With a thinned line up, opportunities for the band’s trademark non-sequiturs shrink, and drummer Kevin Shea ends up being the principal disruptive force, adding an Andrew Cyrille-like élan. But the appearance of bumbling electronics keeps those humorous moments fresh and outlandish, even as the band approaches their twenty-year anniversary. Leonardo Featherweight’s daft liner notes are a delight, too.