Adam Benjamin’s It’s a Standard, Standard, Standard, Standard World is a sly, affectionate deconstruction of the jazz canon, where familiar tunes are stretched, reharmonized, and reimagined with his trademark blend of wit, restraint, and harmonic curiosity; instead of treating standards as sacred artifacts, Benjamin treats them as living material—bending time, teasing out unexpected colors, and letting his keyboard lines wander into dreamy detours before snapping back into crisp, deliberate clarity—resulting in an album that feels both warmly nostalgic and quietly subversive, a playful meditation on what “standard” really means in modern jazz.