Since hearing it on KWMU Sunday night, I haven't been able to get Daniel Bennett Group's instrumental, "Loose Fitting Spare Tire," out of my mind. The tune has a whimsical yet robotic feel, which could work as theme music for a sitcom set in an office. If the right part of the song was used for a sitcom's opening credits, I could imagine a clown walking into the office for no apparent reason and setting a loaf of French bread on the copy machine. I don't usually hear the guitar and saxophone used this way in jazz, so kudos to this duo for its imagination.
In fact, now, my imagination has run wild--maybe not so wild, actually; I was going to write, "I wonder what the tune would sound like if an accordion duo played it," but it's not that hard to imagine.
