90.3 WCPN ideastream®: Playfully Mangling Standards in the Basement
Playfully Mangling Standards in the Basement
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Topics: Arts
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Saxophonist Pat Breiner describes the trio Basement Magic’s approach to jazz as “playfully mangling standards.” The group which also includes bass player Jeff Ratner and drummer Max Goldman do more than play classics by Rogers and Hart, as well as jazz standards by Hank Mobley, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker, they take them apart, reshape their insides and put them back together again. Prior to the band’s recent visit to Northeast Ohio, Breiner talked with ideastream’s evening jazz host Dan Polletta about the trio’s music.
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