NIELS LAN DOKY
Genres: Post Bop, Post-Fusion Contemporary, Hard Bop, Pop, Art Song, Folk, Third Stream, World Fusion, Jazz Related Improv, Composition, Classic Fusion • Denmark

For Montmartre Trio / Niels Lan Doky Jazz Trio search under Montmartre Trio. Niels Lan Doky (born Oct. 3rd, 1963) was born and raised in Copenhagen to a Danish mother and a Vietnamese father.  He is the first Danish jazz musician since bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen to gain wide international renown and critical acclaim.  He first emerged on the jazz scene in 1979 as the 15 year old protégé of American jazz legends Thad Jones and Ernie Wilkins. He moved to the USA in 1981 where he quickly came to prominence playing and recording with such jazz icons as Joe Henderson, Clark Terry, Charlie Haden, Ray Brown, David Sanborn, Woody Shaw, Jack DeJohnette, Al Jarreau, John Scofield, Gino Vannelli, the Brecker Brothers, Pat Metheny and many others. His extensive recording career, which began in 1986, includes 33 albums as a leader and countless albums as a producer or sideman read more...