Monks Jazz Club's Upcoming Shows

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for ACME & Monks Jazz Present: Mark Scott III feat. Aubrey Johnson!

Aubrey Johnson – Voice

Mark Scott III – Guitar

Andy Langham – Piano

James Suter – Bass

Daniel Dufour – Drums

About Mark Scott III:

Austin-based guitarist, composer, and educator Mark Scott III has emerged as a distinct voice in the modern jazz landscape, blending technical precision with a deeply personal, narrative approach to the instrument. His debut album, Soft Light, reached #60 on the Roots Music Report Top 100 Jazz Albums chart, marking a significant entry into the guitar trio tradition. Drawing from the lineage of Barney Kessel and Kenny Burrell, Scott’s playing is defined by what critic Brice Boorman calls a "quiet confidence," a style that rejects bravura in favor of control, patience, and the "power of less is more." Performing widely across the state, Scott has become a fixture of the Texas music scene. Originally from Dallas, Scott moved to Austin in 2021 and has called it home ever since. He has performed alongside jazz luminaries such as Branford Marsalis, Helen Sung, Rodney Whitaker, John Fedchock and others, and has collaborated internationally through tours with Finnish guitarist Niklas Winter. Whether leading his trio or contributing as a sideman, Scott’s emotive touch remains a constant, celebrated for its dynamic sensitivity and harmonic flow. Currently serving on the faculty at Tarleton State University, he mentors the next generation of musicians through applied guitar and the study of popular American music. A former Teaching Assistant at the University of Texas at Austin and a judge for the TMEA All-State jazz guitar competition, Scott bridges the gap between the classroom and the bandstand.

About Aubrey Johnson:

Aubrey Johnson is a New York-based jazz vocalist, composer, and educator. She’s contributed to more than 50 albums, including Bobby McFerrin’s Grammy-nominated VOCAbuLaries, Arturo O'Farrill's Grammy-winning Four Questions, and Lyle Mays’ Grammy-winning Eberhard. Her Steve Robby (Pat Metheny Group)-produced debut album Unraveled, released on Outside In Music in 2020, features her original music and arrangements. She teamed with pianist Randy Ingram for the 2022 Sunnyside Records duo project focusing on standards, Brazilian music, and pop song, Play Favorites. The latest album featuring Aubrey’s compositions and arrangements, The Lively Air, was released in March, 2026 on Greenleaf Music. In demand as both a bandleader and side person, Aubrey has performed and/recorded with Jacob Collier, Janis Siegel, Michael Mayo, Billy Childs, Alex Sipiagin, Fred Hersch, Dave Douglas, and many others. Most recently, she was awarded the Chamber Music America New Jazz Works Grant to record a new album of original music. Aubrey is presently on faculty at The New School and Montclair State University, and previously held positions at Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory, her alma mater.

This project is supported in part by an Austin Live Music Fund Grant of Austin Arts, Culture, Music and Entertainment

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.

Monks is open 6:30 PM for a new Happy Half Hour, featuring $2 off of our Classic and Signature Cocktails, $2 off Glasses of Wine, and $1 off of our Beer Menu between 6:30 PM and 7:00 PM. Join us for a drink, or come at your scheduled seating time! We'll have a wonderful evening planned ahead!

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for Scott Robinson with the Monks Jazz Orchestra | The Jazz Purveyor Presents!

Guest Artist: Scott Robinson

Woodwinds:

Seth Carper

Matt Chavez

Diego Rivera

Ripley Swingle

Eric Hargett

Trumpets:

Matt Collins

Mike Sailors - Musical Director

Isaac Pittenger

Brett Cole

Low Brass:

Paul Deemer

Judah Guerra

Jacob Martinez

Demetreis Thornton

Rhythm Section:

Ross Margitza

Miguel Rodriguez

Daniel Dufour

“Jazz Futurist, Mad Scientist… There’s no one else doing anything close to what Mr. Robinson is doing.” – Wall Street Journal

"...It's creating the kind of world I want to live in. It's like a religious feeling -- that I can create these kinds of worlds that I love, and they'll be there for me someday." -- Scott, on his work, Reach for Tomorrow

One of today's most wide-ranging instrumentalists, Scott Robinson has been heard on tenor with Chet Baker, trumpet with Lionel Hampton, alto clarinet with Paquito D'Rivera, and on bass sax with the NYC Opera. On these and other instruments including theremin and ophicleide, he has been heard with jazz's greats representing nearly every imaginable style of the music.

Primarily a tenor saxophonist, Scott’s discography exceeds 275 recordings, including collaborations with Frank Wess, Hank Jones, Joe Lovano, Ron Carter, Bob Brookmeyer, Toshiko Akiyoshi, even They Might Be Giants. He’s performed with Maria Schneider Orchestra for three decades, appearing on David Bowie’s final recording.

His releases as a leader have garnered five-star reviews from Leonard Feather, DownBeat Magazine, Wall Street Journal and respected sources worldwide. Scott’s recent album Tenormore, won Best Album of the Year in the JazzTimes readers poll, and rated “Indispensable” by France’s Jazz Hot magazine.

Scott has performed in some 60 nations, in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Village Vanguard, the Library of Congress, and the Vienna Opera House. His appearances for dignitaries include a U.S. Presidential Inauguration, and a command performance honoring the birthday of the king of Thailand. As a performer, leader, sideman, or Artist-in-Residence, he has been invited to more jazz festivals globally than we could possibly begin to name here.

Scott has participated in numerous Grammy-winning and nominated recordings, and received four fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has been profiled in the Encyclopedia of Jazz and Grove's Dictionary of Jazz, along with books by Nat Hentoff and others, and once was featured on CNN.

At his home near New York City, Scott has constructed a studio/laboratory for sonic research, containing an astonishing assortment of instruments and devices including the bass marimba that Sun Ra recorded with in the 1960s. Many adventurous recordings from this facility have appeared on his own ScienSonic Laboratories imprint. Scott's collaborators on these projects include Frank Kimbrough, Julian Thayer, Henry Grimes, Roscoe Mitchell, Milford Graves and Marshall Allen. ScienSonic's recordings have been certified by the Space Foundation as Certified Space Imagination Products.

Scott is an endorsing artist for Vandoren Reeds, and is signed to Denis Wick of London for brass. As a composer his works cover a wide range, from jazz tunes to large scale combined orchestras.

He recently debuted at Hunter College, NYC, Movement One of his one-man improvised symphonic recording, Reach for Tomorrow. After nearly four (more?) years of daily work, approximately 9½ minutes of fully-mixed music for 140 instruments has been realized. This project will take an estimated 12-15 years to complete.

A respected performer in all areas of jazz, Scott Robinson has arrived at his own unique musical voice which, as once described in a North Sea Jazz Festival program, "combines solid foundations with great daring".

Presented by The Jazz Purveyor. Thank you for support from the Live Music Society.

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

Monks is open 6:30 PM for a new Happy Half Hour, featuring $2 off of our Classic and Signature Cocktails, $2 off Glasses of Wine, and $1 off of our Beer Menu between 6:30 PM and 7:00 PM. Join us for a drink, or come at your scheduled seating time! We'll have a wonderful evening planned ahead!

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for Kelly Green Trio | "Eat Your Greens" Album Release Celebration | The Jazz Purveyor Presents!

Kelly Green – Piano, Voice

Luca Soul – Bass

Evan Hyde – Drums

Steinway artist Kelly Green is an award winning pianist, vocalist, and composer known for her rare ability to accompany herself with both the precision of a master pianist and the warmth of a gifted vocalist. She leads her ensembles through a widely diverse repertoire, showcasing emotionally potent, genre-defying original music seamlessly woven with reimagined works by Mulgrew Miller, Duke Ellington, and selections from the Blossom Dearie songbook and Jazz canon. Green draws listeners in with an alluring presence, making each performance both deeply personal and universally resonant.

Her recordings have earned critical acclaim, with Corner of My Dreams described as “one of the best Jazz vocal albums of the year” (Marc Meyers, Jazz Wax). Christian McBride calls her “one of the most talented and spirited people I know,” and All About Jazz lauds her as “an artist and performer in toto.”

She has shared the stage with musical visionaries such as Wycliffe Gordon, George Coleman, and Billy Hart, and has sold-out at venues and festivals including The Kennedy Center, Dizzy’s Club, Birdland Theater, Ronnie Scott’s, DC Jazz Festival, and EFG London Jazz Festival.

For this very special concert Green will be performing selections from her latest album Eat Your Greens with her long-standing, world-class trio featuring Evan Hyde on drums and Luca Soul Rosenfeld on the upright bass.

Presented by The Jazz Purveyor.

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

Monks is open 6:30 PM for a new Happy Half Hour, featuring $2 off of our Classic and Signature Cocktails, $2 off Glasses of Wine, and $1 off of our Beer Menu between 6:30 PM and 7:00 PM. Join us for a drink, or come at your scheduled seating time! We'll have a wonderful evening planned ahead!

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for the Gil Del Bosque Quartet!

Gil Del Bosque – Tenor Saxophone and Wind Synth

Dan Redner – Piano

James Suter – Bass

Aaron Parks – Drums

Gil Del Bosque is originally from Brownsville, Texas. He picked up the saxophone in beginner band at the age of 12 and after high school, relocated in 1996 to study classical saxophone with Don Lefevre at West Texas A&M . Gil then continued studying at the University of North Texas, where he studied classical and jazz saxophone with Andrew Dahlke, Jim Riggs, Tom Luer and Mario Cruz. After graduating from UNT, he began working for Carnival Cruise ships out of Miami, Long Beach, and Puerto Rico. Also worked Cunard cruise ships out of Southampton, England on the Queen Elizabeth. While working on ships, Gil honed his reading skills on all woodwinds by backing up a different act every night with little to no rehearsal.

After being at sea for five years, Gil returned to school and pursued graduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin, with a Masters in Jazz Performance. While in Austin, he shared the stage with Chris Potter, Herbie Hancock drummer, Mike Clarke, famed country singer, Lyle Lovett, Latin salsa singer, Olga Tanon, Boyz II Men, Debbie Boone, Aaron Neville and Huey Lewis and the News. While in Austin, he also had the opportunity to study with John Mills, Harvey Pittel, Bob Shepard, and Joel Frahm.

Gil currently resides in Austin, Texas, and has a full schedule divided between a studio of over forty private lesson students on clarinet and saxophone, and a busy performing schedule. He performs with his own jazz quartet as a featured performer at Austin venues, such as The Elephant Room, Parker’s Jazz Club, and Monk’s Jazz. Additionally, he also performs currently with the Austin Jazz Workshop and is the Youth Jam Director with the AJW.

Gil has been featured as a sideman on trumpeter Adrian Ruiz’ debut album, “Premiere: A Collection of Originals” as well as with Pete Rodriguez, Rudy Royston and Ricky Rodriguez on the 2017 release, “The Wink of a Coward.”

Gil released a collection of originals with his quartet in 2017 titled, “Here With You” which featured late mentor, guitarist, composer, and educator, Armando Nunez Portillo on guitar. Available on all streaming platforms.

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

Monks is open 6:30 PM for a new Happy Half Hour, featuring $2 off of our Classic and Signature Cocktails, $2 off Glasses of Wine, and $1 off of our Beer Menu between 6:30 PM and 7:00 PM. Join us for a drink, or come at your scheduled seating time! We'll have a wonderful evening planned ahead!

Every Wednesday, Monks opens the stage up for a late-night jazz jam hosted weekly by Austin's very own Daniel Dufour.

9 PM to Midnight · Every Wednesday

No Cover 21 & Up · One Drink Minimum

$10 cover Under 21

Come sit in, bring your instrument, or just settle in with a drink and listen.

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, we will be live-streaming during the event, and jams will be live-streamed to the public via our Youtube Channel!

Free parking is available in the area. Minors must be accompanied by Parents or Guardian. Doors at 9pm.