The New Standards with special guest Kip Jones

Saturday, June 26, 2010
7:30pm
$12/at door

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 80’s pop-punk band The Suburbs, is the crooner and rock-shouter, but surprises with his pianistic firepower, Steve Roehm, the bandâs 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’ “Rock and Roll” follows up their eponymous debut. Focusing more on favorite rock tracks this time, the trio gives the new set a workout that is by turns fiery, soulful, stark and dark. The group lays bare the lovely bones of songs like “Maps” by The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and “Such Great Heights” by The Postal Service while swinging through modern punky classics like The Replacements “Androgynous,” The Velvet Underground’s “Rock and Roll” and The Clash’s “London Calling”. Fans of the band will be happy to finally hear recordings of their arrangements of “Hey Ya” by Outkast and Britney Spear’s “Toxic.”

Don’t miss what the Minneapolis Star Tribune calls “one of the most fun bands out there ” when they come to Sacred Heart!

Opening the show will be Kip Jones

http://kipjones.net/index.html

Kip Jones describes his music as “traditional fiction” or “experimental folk”; that is, traditional music from regions or people that don’t exist. Having dragged his violin across the Americas from Cape Breton to Tierra del Fuego, and across Asia from Kanyakumari to Jeollanamdo, years of travel have shaped his music into something both structurally foreign and profoundly American.

Listeners can expect a high-energy solo performance from Kip, who fiddles, stomps and sings, handing off the responsibility of melody from his voice to his violin. This innovative (but traditional!) style pervades nearly all of his original material, which comfortably fills a two-hour concert, to say nothing of reinterpretations of the Foo Fighters, Björk, or Mississippi John Hurt, among others.

A violinist’s son, Kip grew up in Duluth, Minnesota, and received his degree in Violin Performance from Boston’s Berklee College of Music, where he studied jazz with Matt Glaser. After a nine-month motorcycle trip that spanned the North American continent, he continued his study of improvisation with renowned Hindustani violinist Kala Ramnath, in Mumbai, India. He met his wife, Noelle, in Minnesota, and the two soon moved to rural South Korea, where Kip’s songs began to take shape. Then, together, the pair embarked on a year-long odyssey through South America, where he captured the sound he had long been seeking.

He has performed at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Minneapolis’ Orchestra Hall, Aerostitch’s Very Boring Motorcycle Rally, Ecuador’s Ministry of Employment, School Day in Gokseong, South Korea, and on subway platforms across the United States. He has also performed scores of house concerts, from a failed hamburger restaurant in Veracruz to the roof of Tirana’s Jordan Nisja School of Music; from a veranda packed with Bangladeshi migrant laborers in Kolkata to a 4-a.m. impromptu between a late pub crawl and an early bus ride in Ushuaia, Argentina. He looks forward to embracing his future here, in Minnesota, where he is proud to have grown up, and happy to be back.

“Very interesting compositions and playing.”
- Jean-Luc Ponty

“Columbus-minded music”
- Listener on CD Baby

“A humor genius”
- Matt Glaser

”...going to be very busy.”
- Kala Ramnath

http://www.thenewstandards.com/index.html
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