The New Standards

Posted By admin on February 11, 2010

General Admission, $25

The New Standards are a unique jazz trio that is making a splash around the world with their personality-laden brand of heartfelt engaging performance and extraordinary musicality. Each member, coming from a distinguished background in pop, rock and jazz, brings something fresh to the project. John Munson on stand-up bass, a founding member of legendary and chart-topping bands Trip Shakespeare and Semisonic, brings his mellifluous boy-choir vocals and melodious rock-steady chops, Chan Poling, the lead songwriter and vocalist of the seminal Twin Cities pop-punk band The Suburbs, is the crooner and rock-shouter, but surprises with his pianistic firepower, Steve Roehm, the band’s Secret Weapon, with his sly looks under horn-rimmed glasses, started in the punk-rock Billygoat and recently ended a stint in the avant-jazz Electropolis. Steve climbs breathtaking jazzy and minimal-chiming colorful heights on his vibraphone.

The New Standards are regulars at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater in New York City and have been featured in The New York Times and been pick-of-the-week in Time Out/New York, they’ve played Europe and China, and in their hometown Minneapolis/St. Paul regularly sell out their Dakota Jazz Club multiple show stands as well as the 1000+ seat Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul with their Annual New Standards Christmas Show. Don’t miss what the Minneapolis Star Tribune calls “one of the most fun bands out there now” when they come to the Ritz!

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