Enjoy a little jazz, a little classical, a little lounge, a little punk, a little rock, and a whole lot of cool with The New Standards.

Tickets range from $18 to $22. Please visit the Pricing and Seating section of our website for further information.

About The New Standards

The New Standards are an odd minimalist trio (piano, stand-up bass, and vibraphone) that play their favorite pop songs with a jazz-flavored, bare-boned soul. John Munson, bass/vocals, was an original member of Trip Shakespeare and went double-platinum with his next group, Semisonic. Chan Poling, piano/vocals, founded the punk-pop outfit The Suburbs and writing music for the theater, television and films. Steve Roehm, vibes, began his career in the wild Texas punk group Billygoat and also played in the avant-jazz-funk-fusion group Electropolis.

Reviews

“On its self-titled debut, jazz trio The New Standards takes pop and rock tunes, such as All the Young Dudes, Only Love Can Break Your Heart and The New Pollution, then strips them down and juices them back up with vocals, piano, bass and totally cool vibes. It’s a bit quirky, but it works.” – The New York Post

“To those who came of age in the 70s or later, a standard isn’t necessarily a perfumed and ribboned love song by Jerome Kern. It might be Beck’s The New Pollution, Roxy Music’s Oh Yeah or Mott the Hoople’s All the Young Dudes. These are some of the chestnuts that warm the brooding hearts of The New Standards, a year-old chamber-punk trio that has fast become one of its native Minnesotas favorite lounge acts. The group takes songs you may have been too stoned to fully appreciate in the past and lays their poetry bare; the raucousness of the originals is replaced by a stark acoustic setting of piano, vibes and drums.” – Time Out New York