NIELS LAN DOKY with ALVIN QUEEN - and introducing TOBIAS DALL at The Standard

NEW LEGACY CONCERT

NIELS LAN DOKY (piano), ALVIN QUEEN (drums) - and introducing the young talent TOBIAS DALL (bass)

Denmark has a long standing tradition for great bassists, arguably initiated by Oscar Pettiford who lived the last 2 years of his life in Denmark 1958-1960, and although Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen is the most prominent Danish bassist to date, the list of great world class Danish bassists is long and also includes Mads Vinding, Chris Minh Doky, Jesper Lundgaard and others. The latest addition to the bunch appears to be the 28 year old young Danish bassist TOBIAS DALL, who first appeared at The Standard as part of the Brickman Dall Trio and quickly revealed an exceptional and rare talent in addition to a great sound and unique style and approach. With a well balanced mix between American and Scandinavian influences he combines a warm organic sound with melodic lyricism and rhythmic drive. Earlier this year The Standard Jazz Club’s music director Niels Lan Doky and his dear friend and legendary drummer Alvin Queen auditioned Tobias Dall. They were both extremely impressed and became determined to offer this young man the experience and challenge he needs to reach his full artistic potential. So we are very excited to be working with Tobias Dall on his new journey towards higher musical horizons....

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NEW LEGACY CONCERT

NIELS LAN DOKY (piano), ALVIN QUEEN (drums) - and introducing the young talent TOBIAS DALL (bass)

Denmark has a long standing tradition for great bassists, arguably initiated by Oscar Pettiford who lived the last 2 years of his life in Denmark 1958-1960, and although Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen is the most prominent Danish bassist to date, the list of great world class Danish bassists is long and also includes Mads Vinding, Chris Minh Doky, Jesper Lundgaard and others. The latest addition to the bunch appears to be the 28 year old young Danish bassist TOBIAS DALL, who first appeared at The Standard as part of the Brickman Dall Trio and quickly revealed an exceptional and rare talent in addition to a great sound and unique style and approach. With a well balanced mix between American and Scandinavian influences he combines a warm organic sound with melodic lyricism and rhythmic drive. Earlier this year The Standard Jazz Club’s music director Niels Lan Doky and his dear friend and legendary drummer Alvin Queen auditioned Tobias Dall. They were both extremely impressed and became determined to offer this young man the experience and challenge he needs to reach his full artistic potential. So we are very excited to be working with Tobias Dall on his new journey towards higher musical horizons.

Jazz pianist and composer NIELS LAN DOKY has had one of the most extensive and unusual careers that the Danish music scene has ever seen. His professional career started already at age 13, and he was only 15 when began playing with American jazz legends Thad Jones and Ernie Wilkins. Today at the age of 52, he has released 38 albums and releases under his own name and has collaborated with the greatest artists in jazz and won countless awards and accolades around the world. He was Knighted by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark on her birthday in 2010 and has appeared on bestseller lists in Europe and Asia. And he has also occasionally devoted time to parallel careers as a film director, producer, author and speaker (he recently gave a TED talk). After three decades of absence where he has lived respectively in Boston, New York, Paris and London, he is now back in Denmark where he has opened not less than two jazz clubs in the capital of Copenhagen, the reopened Jazzhus Montmartre, which he launched in 2010 and The Standard, which he opened in 2013 with Claus Meyer and others. Truly a global cosmopolitan, he has performed for many prominent world figures including Pope Jean Paul II, actor Roger Moore, French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, , a.o.

“That rare thing in the jazz of our time, an original voice in the great tradition.”
– Dan Morgenstern (institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, New Jersey).

“Niels is not gloating about being at the top. He just belongs there.”
– Mike Zwerin (International Herald Tribune)

“Niels Lan Doky is the best pianist of his generation. I am stunned by the freshness of his music.”
– Sugita Hiroki (Swing Journal, Japan)

Veteran drummer ALVIN QUEEN and Niels Lan Doky go way back: Alvin Queen played on NLD’s debut album in 1986 “Here or There” which also featured Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen and was also the drummer on NLD’s first tour of Japan in 1988 and many other projects. They are today both members of the Oscar Peterson Legacy Quartet with guitarist Ulf Wakenius and bassist Dave Young. Originally from New York, Alvin Queen built a name for himself as the drummer of the Horace Silver Quintet (alongside other exciting sidemen contemporaries such as Mike Brecker, Randy Brecker, Tom Harrell and Bob Berg) and he has has performed with a who’s-who in jazz, including George Benson, Nina Simone, Ray Brown, Dizzy Gillespie and numerous others. And for many years he was the drummer in the final edition of the Oscar Peterson Quartet before the leader’s passing.

Very special gratitude to Wilhelm Hansen Fonden for making the June 1-July 10, 2016 New Legacy Concerts possible

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