Niels toured all summer with Modern Standard Supergroup

Photo by Kannan Palanisamy

THE MODERN STANDARDS SUPERGROUP EUROPEAN SUMMER TOUR 2022 COME TO AN END

This Summer 2022, the MODERN STANDARDS SUPERGROUP toured most of Europe from June 28th to July 23rd. The tour covered Austria, Denmark, Latvia, Spain, Germany, Italy, and France. The supergroup features some of the greatest jazz legends of all time: Billy Cobham, Randy Brecker, and Bill Evans, in addition to the bass virtuoso Linley Marthe, and the knighted Danish jazz pianist Niels Lan Doky. We’ve collected some of the best photos from the tour. Relive some of the great moments below.

THE EUROPEAN TOUR 2022:

  • June 28: Cinema Paradiso, Austria

  • June 29: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark

  • June 30: Rīgas Ritmi Festival, Latvia

  • July 1: Vijazz Vilafranca, Spain

  • July 8: Rivertone, Germany

  • July 9: Jazztime Ravensburg, Germany

  • July 10: JazzOpen Stuttgart, Germany

  • July 11: Casa Del Jazz, Italy

  • July 12: New Morning, France

  • July 13: Valladolid Festival, Spain

  • July 16: Jazz Fest Wiesen, Austria

  • July 23: Jazz Panorama Torrent, Spain

ABOUT THE CONCEPT:

The MODERN STANDARDS project was initiated by Niels Lan Doky who for most of his career has been a strong advocate for renewal of the jazz standard repertoire. Throughout his vast discography, he has experimented extensively with interpretations of contemporary pop songs, and arguably more so than any other jazz artist since the original jazz standards were conceived. The repertoire commonly referred to as “Jazz Standards” consists mainly of pop songs from the 1930s and 40s reworked by jazz musicians at the time, to offer the general public a radically different perspective on widely popular songs. The jazz renditions eventually outlived the original versions and jazz musicians continued to play and record these same songs over and over and eventually began creating renditions of each other’s renditions, instead of embracing brand new songs. Ultimately everyone forgot about the original versions and decades later the songs became permanently identified as the classic repertoire of jazz. The MODERN STANDARDS SUPERGROUP will revive this old tradition and take on the biggest pop hits of today and approach them as modern jazz standards.

Jonas HolmarkLouisiana Museum of Modern Art