Monks Jazz Club's Upcoming Shows

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for 10 Years of Monks | Nicholas Payton w the Monks Jazz Orchestra! We’re celebrating a decade of Monks all week long this September with friends, family, artists, and everyone who has helped make this place what it is. Come raise a glass, hear some great music, and celebrate 10 years of Monks with us.

Nicholas Payton - guest artist

Michael Sailors - music director

Saxophones, Clarinets, Piccolo, Flute

Seth Carper

Matt Chavez

Joel Frahm

Ripley Swingle

Eric Hargett

Trombones, Tuba

Andre Hayward

Jacob Martinez

Judah Guerra

Demetrius Thornton

Trumpets, Flugelhorns

Matt Collins

Tito Carillo

Isaac Pittinger

Rachel Spencer

James Suter - bass

Ross Margitza - rhodes, piano

Daniel Dufour - drums

Nicholas Payton is a trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and cultural theorist from New Orleans, Louisiana. One of the most significant musical voices of his generation, Payton has released more than twenty albums as a leader and has performed and recorded with an extraordinary range of artists across genres and traditions. He is a Grammy Award winner and the originator of the #BAM (Black American Music) philosophy, through which he has spent over a decade challenging the mislabeling and misrepresentation of Black creative music. His work moves across swing, funk, blues, R&B, and electronic music with the conviction that these are all expressions of a single, continuous cultural language. Payton is a lifelong New Orleanian whose practice is inseparable from the city's musical inheritance and its ongoing role as the source of American sound.

Presented by The Jazz Purveyor, with support from The Live Music Society 501(c)3 and Haas Toyota.

Please Note: MONKS JAZZ IS NOW A FULL SERVICE BAR. As part of this transition, Monks Jazz is no longer a BYOB venue. We invite you to enjoy our thoughtfully curated beverage menu and roll with us through the changes! As always, this is a live-taping, so we'll be enforcing a whisper-policy! Free parking is available in the area.

First Show: Doors at 7:00pm, Show at 7:30pm.

Second Show: Doors at 9:00pm, Show at 9:30pm.

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for 10 Years of Monks | HAAM Day w Jon Deas!

Donating 25% of Total Revenue Tuesday Night to HAAM, we’re celebrating a decade of Monks all week long this September with friends, family, artists, and everyone who has helped make this place what it is. Come raise a glass, hear some great music, and celebrate 10 years of Monks with us.

Jon Deas – Piano

Joe Williams – Trumpet

Matt Muehling – Guitar

Taishawn Tyler – Bass

Daniel Watson – Drums

A native of Buffalo, New York, Jonathan E. Deas began his musical career as the drummer in his father’s traveling gospel group, but after attending the Buffalo Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts, he discovered his love for the piano. Quickly becoming an in-demand player on the Austin music scene upon his arrival in 2005, Deas has performed with legendary artists George Clinton, Jon B, and Michelle Williams, and also founded a record label, KeyzStreet, producing music for Jackie Venson, Alesia Lana, Jake Lloyd, and others. Since 2018, Deas has been touring with Grammy Award-winning artist Gary Clark Jr.

Please Note: MONKS JAZZ IS NOW A FULL SERVICE BAR. As part of this transition, Monks Jazz is no longer a BYOB venue. We invite you to enjoy our thoughtfully curated beverage menu and roll with us through the changes! As always, this is a live-taping, so we'll be enforcing a whisper-policy! Free parking is available in the area. Doors at 7:00 PM, Show at 7:30 PM.

Join us for a listening-room concert for 10 Years of Monks | Benny Green!

Benny Green – Piano

Benny Green was born in New York City in 1963 and grew up in Berkeley, California. His father, who played the tenor saxophone, introduced him to Jazz at an early age through his record collection that included Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Ray Charles and many founding voices of the music. He began piano lessons at the age of 7, and his first paid performance was at the age of 12. His major concert stage debut was in 1978, when he was 15, at the Monterey Jazz Festival as a member of the MJF High School All-Stars (now known as the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra).

Benny began performing on a regular basis with the vocalist Faye Carol at the age of 16, and began gigging frequently in the San Francisco Bay Area with NEA Jazz Master trumpeter Dr. Eddie Henderson at 17. Benny returned to NYC in 1982 when he was 19, was mentored during his first year in town by Walter Bishop Jr. and Walter Davis Jr. and played his first gigs in the city with Barry Altschul, Bobby Watson and Jo Jones Jr.

Betty Carter hired Benny in 1983, and he toured internationally with her for four years, and played on her Grammy Award winning Verve album “Look What I Got” before joining Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers for 2 1/2 years from 1987-’89, recording a few albums under Art Blakey’s leadership. He joined the Freddie Hubbard Quintet in 1989 and recorded the album “Live At Fat Tuesday’s” with Mr. Hubbard in 1992. That same year, Benny joined the Ray Brown Trio, which became his longest tenure as a sideman, remaining with Mr. Brown for 4 1/2 years.

As a leader, Benny recorded two albums for the Dutch Criss Cross label in the late 1980s before being signed to Blue Note Records in 1990 and remained with the label for 10 years, receding seven albums as a leader for the label, as well as two albums for its Japanese subsidiary, Toshiba-EMI. Oscar Peterson named Benny as his protégé in 1992, and chose Benny as the recipient of the Glenn Gould Award for excellence in Music and Communication. He recorded many albums as a sideman throughout the 1980s and ’90s, including a duet with Diana Krall on her Grammy Award winning album, “All For You.” He recorded two albums as a leader for the Telarc label in the early 1990s, as well as two duo albums for the label with Russell Malone. In 1998 Oscar Peterson invited Benny to record a two-piano album with him, entitled “Oscar and Benny.”

Benny continued leading his trio and began recording for the Sunnyside label in 2014, and has released five albums for the label to date, with plans to release his sixth later this year.

Please Note: MONKS JAZZ IS NOW A FULL SERVICE BAR. As part of this transition, Monks Jazz is no longer a BYOB venue. We invite you to enjoy our thoughtfully curated beverage menu and roll with us through the changes! As always, this is a live-taping, so we'll be enforcing a whisper-policy! Free parking is available in the area.

First Show: Doors at 7:00pm, Show at 7:30pm.

Second Show: Doors at 9:00pm, Show at 9:30pm.

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for 10 Years of Monks | Mike Sailors & Elena Diaz! We’re celebrating a decade of Monks all week long this September with friends, family, artists, and everyone who has helped make this place what it is. Come raise a glass, hear some great music, and celebrate 10 years of Monks with us.

7:00 PM Early Show with Mike Sailors

9:30 PM Late Show with Elena Diaz

About Mike Sailors:

Mike Sailors has performed around the world in venues such as the Blue Note (New York, Tokyo, and Sapporo locations), Ronnie Scott’s, Porgy and Bess, Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola, The Jazz Standard, Smalls Jazz Club, Carnegie Hall, and Lincoln Center; and has appeared at the Montreal, Detroit, EFG London, and Tokyo Blue Note Jazz Festivals. He has also been an active musician in Broadway orchestras, most notably as the Music Director of Sleep No More. In addition to leading the Mike Sailors Nonet, once dubbed "an all-star outfit" by the New York Times, he has performed as a sideman with the Birdland Big Band, the Hot Sardines, the Gerald Wilson Orchestra, and The Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra.

An active composer and arranger, Mike has written for such luminaries as Dewey Redman, Dick Oatts, Sean Jones, Jimmy Cobb, and Peter Bernstein. He has composed and recorded music for numerous commercial campaigns, as well as for TV and Film – most recently for the Netflix original series, Cannon Busters. Sailors is also a performing artist/educator with Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Let Freedom Swing educational program, is a copyist and editor for the Essentially Ellington jazz program, and currently serves as the Professor of Jazz Trumpet at University of Texas at Austin.

About Elena Diaz:

Elena Diaz is an Austin-based jazz vocalist, multilingual performer, curator and creator of the Global Songbook concert series. Drawing from Brazilian jazz, Afro-Cuban music, French chanson, and contemporary repertoire, her performances explore how music travels across language and culture. Diaz has performed in both the U.S. and France, including residencies on the French Riviera, and currently performs throughout Austin at venues including Monks Jazz, the Elephant Room, and Hotel Van Zandt.

Please Note: MONKS JAZZ IS NOW A FULL SERVICE BAR. As part of this transition, Monks Jazz is no longer a BYOB venue. We invite you to enjoy our thoughtfully curated beverage menu and roll with us through the changes! As always, this is a live-taping, so we'll be enforcing a whisper-policy! Free parking is available in the area.

First Show: Doors at 6:30pm, Show at 7:00pm.

Second Show: Doors at 9:00pm, Show at 9:30pm.