event The New Standards
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Travis Anderson
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Wed Dec 30
7 pm,
9:30 pm
The New Standards at Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant
The New Standards' approach to covering pop tunes with jazz instrumentation isn't as whacked-out as that of fellow Minnesotans The Bad Plus, but in a way it does a lot more justice to the songs themselves. Setting "London Calling" and "Dark End Of The Street"—the band has a pretty cool, broad idea of what the last 50 years' "standards" are—amid the interplay of piano, bass, and vibraphone is risky, but singer-pianist Chan Poling and band adapt dynamically and affectionately from song to song, consistently setting the right moods and then stretching out boldly.
Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant 1010 Nicollet Ave. S., Twin Cities, MN
The New Standards' approach to covering pop tunes with jazz instrumentation isn't as whacked-out as that of fellow Minnesotans The Bad Plus, but in a way it does a lot more justice to the songs themselves. Setting "London Calling" and "Dark End Of The Street"—the band has a pretty cool, broad idea of what the last 50 years' "standards" are—amid the interplay of piano, bass, and vibraphone is risky, but singer-pianist Chan Poling and band adapt dynamically and affectionately from song to song, consistently setting the right moods and then stretching out boldly.
Updated 12/17/2009
