Marco Antonio Santos feat. Charles Pillow

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for Marco Antonio Santos featuring Charles Pillow!

Marco Antonio Santos – Guitar

Charles Pillow – Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Alto Flute

James Sutter – Bass

Fabio Augustinis - Drums

Guitarist and composer Marco Antonio Santos brings New York-based woodwind player Charles Pillow to

Monks Jazz on October 2nd for a performance connected to the recording of Santos’s

second album. The concert takes place during a week-long recording session for the

project, scheduled for release next year.

The new music explores immigration through personal and observed experiences, with a

focus on the psychological aspects of being an immigrant in the United States. Santos’s

compositions and arrangements bring together elements of Brazilian music,

contemporary jazz, and chamber music, using improvisation and written material to

approach themes of identity, belonging, displacement, and adaptation.

Charles Pillow is a saxophonist and multi-woodwind instrumentalist whose career

includes work with the Maria Schneider Orchestra, Joe Henderson, Michael Brecker,

John Scofield, Brad Mehldau, Wynton Marsalis, David Liebman, Paul Simon, and Bruce

Springsteen, among many others. His own projects include reworkings of classical

repertoire as well as his Electric Miles recordings, which explore the electric music of

Miles Davis through large-ensemble arranging. Since 2012, Pillow has served as

Assistant Professor of Jazz Saxophone at the Eastman School of Music.

Originally from Minas Gerais, Brazil, Marco Antonio Santos is a guitarist, composer,

arranger, and educator based in Austin, Texas. His work moves between jazz, Brazilian

music, and contemporary composition, with influences ranging from Milton Nascimento

and Maria Schneider to Radiohead and Jakob Bro. His 2023 debut album, About: Silence,

used music alongside visual art, dance, and poetry to explore different meanings of

silence. Santos has performed and recorded with artists including Nenê, Di Melo, Hilda

Maria, Rique Pantoja, Marshall Gilkes, Bryan Carter, Chad LB, and André “Limão”

Queiroz.

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.

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

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