Monks Jazz Club's Upcoming Shows

GRAND OPENING WEEK | Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for the Collin Shook Quintet!

Collin Shook – Piano

Seth Carper – Saxophones

Bruce Saunders – Guitar

James Suter – Double Bass

Adam Jackson – Drums

Collin Shook, native to Dallas, Texas, is a jazz pianist, composer, and founder of Monks Jazz. During high school, he studied instruments from all around the bandstand, moved to Austin in 2007, performed and recorded in Tucson from 2009 to 2013, and finally returned to Austin in 2014. In September 2016, Collin collaborated with the art co-op Topology in East Austin to create Monks Jazz Club, a pop-up listening room concept.

Having hosted nearly 100 pop-up concerts in over a dozen venues from 2016-2020, Monks transitioned to a live-streaming format in response to the pandemic, and in 2021 landed a permanent brick and mortar space in the heart of East Austin, where Collin has produced over 600 Monks live-taping concerts. His two albums as a leader (Derivatives 2012 & The Desert 2016) can be found at collinshook.bandcamp.com

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.

GRAND OPENING WEEK | Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for the Paul Deemer Quintet!

Paul Deemer – Trombone, Flugelhorn

Dan Thomas – Tenor Saxophone

Matt Berger – Guitar

James Suter – Bass

Dave Sierra – Drums

Born and raised in El Paso, TX, Paul went on to earn his B.M. in Trombone Performance at the University of Arizona and M.M. from the Frost School of Music. Since moving to Austin in 2010, he’s become a first-call musician playing trombone, trumpet, flugelhorn, baritone, percussion, and keyboard. In 2015, Paul was hired onto the faculty at Texas State University as professor and lecturer of Jazz Trombone, and in 2016 was hired for the same position at the esteemed University of Texas at Austin.

With over 25 years of playing experience, Paul finds himself equally at home playing funk, latin, soul, blues, classical, and pop and has toured internationally with The Polyphonic Spree, and nationally with Calexico, Hard Proof, Progger, and Brownout. His section has joined Gary Clark Jr., Jon Batiste, Maggie Rose, Aaron Frazer, Adrian Quesada’s Jaguar Sounds, and Thee Sacred Souls at the esteemed Austin City Limits Festival.

Most recently, Paul completed a year playing horns with the live band on Kill Tony, the reigning #1 live comedy podcast in the world. Some other notable highlights include performances with Frankie Valli, The Walkmen, Kill Tony’s first Arena Show at the HEB center, and taping with the Surfaces for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Having already been an official artist for SXSW Music Festival in 2020, Paul returned in 2024 to showcase his new acoustic jazz-pop ensemble.

Paul has recorded on numerous albums including albums from Shiny Ribs, Trail of the Dead, Dave Grusin, Molly Burch, The Polyphonic Spree, and Adrian Quesada of the Black Pumas.

Please Note: MONKS JAZZ IS NOW A FULL SERVICE BAR. In accordance with Texas law, outside alcoholic beverages are no longer permitted. 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.

GRAND OPENING WEEK | Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for the Wilson Marks Trio!

Wilson Marks – Guitar

James Suter – Bass

Aaron Parks – Drums

One of Austin’s finest little known troubadours- a songwriter’s songwriter. Playfully prodding the human condition with an idiosyncratic pop ingrained with folk and NOLA jazz instincts, the singer / guitarist / pianist tosses off tunes with that magic mixture of simplicity and gravity. Endlessly surprising.

-Austin Chronicle

Wilson Marks studied jazz in the city of New Orleans but is based in Austin Texas- His songs cross genres and often feature word play, alliterative turns of phrase, harmonic twists or furry chords- When not playing with his own trio, most often comprised of Josh Flowers (bass) and Aaron Parks (percussion), he works as a side-man for a variety of other projects in live or studio endeavors - including The McMercy family Band, Matt the Electrician, The Jitterbug Vipers, The Lonesome Heroes, Datri Bean Band, The Aaron Parks Project, Sarah Sharp, and more. He has 4 albums of original material streaming from the usual online musical spigots and one release from an ambient, or hambient side project under the moniker The Pig Loopowski. By day he teaches elementary general music in Hays CISD, seeing 920 students every seven days.

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 live taping and listening-room concert for the JaRon Marshall Trio!

JaRon Marshall – Piano

Jeremy George – Bass

Michael Longoria – Drums

JaRon Marshall + The Collective is an instrumental group from Austin, Texas. They recently recorded their debut album in Austin at Adrian Quesada’s Electric Deluxe Recorders. They are inspired by jazz-hop influencers such as Robert Glasper and Chris Dave, as well as the modern spiritualists Kamasi Washington and Shabaka Hutchings.

The group was formed in 2020, over the pandemic, when Marshall contacted drummer Michael Longoria to add some live drums to the EP “The Black Power Tape,” which was described in a feature for Okayplayer as “exploring the myriad of emotions that come with being Black in America, all against a backdrop of soothing, soulful music.” The full quartet made their recording debut on Marshall’s follow up EP, “The Prequel.” The debut full length, “earth sounds”, came in April of 2023. The band has toured Europe and America, including a sold-out two performance night at the legendary Ronnie Scott’s club in London.

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 live taping and listening-room concert for the Matter Berger Quartet

Matt Berger - Guitar

Grant Teeple - Tenor Saxophone

Mercedes Solis - Bass

Mike Gordon - Drums

Matt Berger is a guitarist and composer from Chicago. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music in Boston, where his teachers included Tim Miller, Bruce Saunders, Mark White, Bruno Råberg and the late Yakov Gubanov. After graduating, Matt began studying and performing raga with Indian Classical tabla master Sandip Burman, joining him for twelve tours around the US.

Back in Chicago, he worked as a free-lance guitarist and arranger alongside many artists including Gros Pokossi, 2nd Nature, Bluprint, Bill Dickens, Ian Maksin, Gabriel Datcu, Livia Gazzolo, Paco Lopez, and Carly & Martina, while also co-hosting the Uncommon Ground Jazz Jam and teaching on faculty at Music Institute of Chicago. In 2015, he joined Nigerian vocalist and songwriter Nneka for her US and Canada tour.

Matt became a resident of Austin in 2021. Since then, he has shared the stage with many of Austin’s illustrious musicians, including Jon Blondell, the Parker Jazz House Band, Andre Hayward, Alex Coke, Brannen Temple, Dale Watson, Sarah Sharp, Bree Romeo and Elena Diaz. In 2024, he released an album with Chris Jones and Tom Raines titled Unanswered Questions. In 2025, Matt recorded a live album with Steven Husted, titled Two Nights-"LIVE”, followed by a concert in Oakland with Steven and acclaimed saxophonist Dayna Stephens. More recently he has been performing with the Jerry Z Organ Trio.

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 7:15 PM, Show at 7:30 PM.