One more time for good measure! If you missed us on Sunday, consider this your encore invitation...join us Saturday, December 27th for D.S. Al Coda | Last Chorus on the East Side! House Band: Collin Shook – Piano James Suter – Bass Daniel Dufour – Drums ...and special guests! We'll be partnering with a neighboring business to keep the good spirits flowing with complimentary beverages. There will be no assigned seating for this show, just a flat $20 fee and a room full of music and memories. We've said it before, we'll say it again...thank you for your support through the years, and for making our four years on Pedernales some of the very best. We’re forever grateful, and we can’t wait to see what this next chapter brings as we head south. Please Note: We considered making a joke about this being your first opportunity to SPEAK LOUDLY over the music at a Monks show, but decided to skip it and just go straight to the sign! Whisper Policy till our last breath. While we will be providing complimentary beverages, feel free to carry on the tradition and BYOB! Ice will be available if needed, wine keys and 9oz cups provided! 22 free parking spaces onsite are first-come-first-serve. Doors at 7:45pm, Show at 8pm. 

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for the Jerome Gillespie Quartet! Jerome Gillespie – Drums Diego Rivera – Saxophone Ross Margitza – Piano Guillermo Lopez – Bass Jerome Gillespie Jr. grew up as a musically inclined child going to church in Houston, where his god-mother, Theola Booker, a well-known educator and gospel composer was the minister of music. He attended Johnston Middle School (now Meyerland Middle School) and Houston’s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA). Gillespie moved to NYC in 2016 to pursue a bachelors degree and a career performing jazz music, spending his first 2 years of undergrad at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, and completed his degree at 2 at Manhattan School of Music. Music is the vehicle by which he expresses himself; Jerome has always been fascinated with instruments and the way in which performing can touch and move people. He combines various unique and experimental elements from across genres as well as his own ideas resulting in Jazz-centered fusions that are still firmly stitched together by emotive undertones. Gillespie has worked with legends such as Reggie Workman, Frank Lacy, Bobby Watson, Valery Ponomarev, Mark Gross, and Antonio Hart and he cites them as the pivotal influences in his music. NEW ADDRESS | 310 E SAINT ELMO ROAD, UNIT B AUSTIN TX 78745 Please Note: This is a live-taping, so we'll be enforcing a whisper-policy! Cold bottles of still and sparkling water will be available for purchase, but this event is BYOB. Ice will be available if needed, wine keys and 9oz cups provided! First Show: Doors at 7:45pm, Show at 8pm Second Show: Doors at 9:45pm, Show at 10pm 

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for The Jazz Purveyor Presents: Palma/Carrol Quartet! Michael Palma – Piano Shelley Carrol – Saxophone James Suter – Bass Daniel Dufour – Drums Bebop Pop-up at Monks South! Dirty Dallas is down in town. We’re here for the new year, with new music and swinging standards. Let’s burn the house down while it’s built next door. Michael Palma and Shelley Carrol are a Lone Star friendship evolved over two decades. One from true Texas Tenor lineage, the other a sophisticated melodicist; together they balance in the laid back bends of blues and harmony. A long time member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Shelley Carrol came up in a family of gospel musicians in Houston, Texas. There he studied with the legendary saxophonists (and neighbors) Arnett Cobb and Don Wilkerson, and graduated from the HS for Performing & Visual Arts. He was part of the Grammy-nominated One O’Clock Lab Band at UNT, now teaches in Dallas when not touring. His resume includes Sheryl Crow, Count Basie Orchestra, Tony Bennett, Nancy Wilson, Roger Waters, Gary Clark Jr., and many others. Michael Palma is a local underdog and homegrown Texas talent. Native to Dallas, he graduated Berklee College of Music where he honed his Jarrett-like sense of navigating forms. Palma has since built a distinguished performance career sharing the bandstand with jazz masters including Jimmy Cobb, George Garzone, Dave Santoro, the Marsalis Family, and has taught at UNT. Known for exceptional musicianship, stylistic depth, and commanding swing, Michael brings a powerful time feel, melodic intrigue, and deep respect for the jazz tradition to each moment of music. Brought to you by The Jazz Purveyor! NEW ADDRESS | 310 E SAINT ELMO ROAD, UNIT B AUSTIN TX 78745 Please Note: This is a live-taping, so we'll be enforcing a whisper-policy! Cold bottles of still and sparkling water will be available for purchase, but this event is BYOB. Ice will be available if needed, wine keys and 9oz cups provided! First Show: Doors at 7:45pm, Show at 8pm. Second Show: Doors at 9:45pm, Show at 10pm. 

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for the Dayne Reliford Trio! Dayne Reliford – Piano James Suter – Bass Joshua Berry – Drums Dayne Reliford is a pianist, arranger, and composer from Houston, Texas. His musical journey started at the age of 4 when his grandparents enrolled him in lessons after watching him gravitate to their upright piano as a toddler. In December of 2020, Dayne graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Jazz Studies from Texas State University in San Marcos, TX. Now, he serves as a freelance musician in Austin and has shared the stage with artists such as Brannen Temple, Robin Mckelle, Delfayo Marsalis, Andre Hayward, Michael Malone, Hannibal Lokumbe, and others. NEW ADDRESS | 310 E SAINT ELMO ROAD, UNIT B AUSTIN TX 78745 Please Note: This is a live-taping, so we'll be enforcing a whisper-policy! Cold bottles of still and sparkling water will be available for purchase, but this event is BYOB. Ice will be available if needed, wine keys and 9oz cups provided! 

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for the Ross Margitza Quintet! Matthew Chavez – Alto Saxophone Dan Thomas - Tenor Saxophone Ross Margitza – Piano Miguel Rodriguez – Bass Daniel Dufour – Drums Dr. Ross Margitza is a distinguished pianist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and educator. He resides in Austin, TX where he serves as a Lecturer in Jazz Studies/Jazz Piano at the University of Texas at Austin. Growing up in Detroit, Michigan, he began his musical journey under the guidance of his father and grandfather, both professional pianists. He started playing piano at age six and trumpet at age ten. Inspired by Oscar Peterson's recording of “West Side Story,” Ross pursued a career in jazz. An award-winning pianist, Dr. Margitza clinched first place in the 2024 Jacksonville Jazz Piano Competition and second place in the 2009 Phillips Jazz Piano Competition. He has performed alongside acclaimed musicians such as Russell Malone, Jon Faddis, Phil Woods, Patti Austin, Wess "Warmdaddy" Anderson, Roy McCurdy, Antonio Hart, Lynn Roberts, and Christian McBride. His credits also include performances with the Gerald Wilson Orchestra, Detroit Jazz Orchestra, Glenn Miller Orchestra, and Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. Internationally, Ross has performed in Japan, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Spain, and Canada, as well as major U.S. cities including Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington D.C., and New York. As an educator, his previous appointments include serving as the Director of Instrumental Music at both Flintridge Preparatory School near Los Angeles and also St. Andrew's Episcopal School in Austin. In 2023, he taught collegiately as the Jazz Piano Instructor at Huston-Tillotson University. He holds a Bachelor of Music from Michigan State University, a Master of Music from Northern Illinois University, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Texas at Austin. NEW ADDRESS | 310 E SAINT ELMO ROAD, UNIT B AUSTIN TX 78745 Please Note: This is a live-taping, so we'll be enforcing a whisper-policy! Cold bottles of still and sparkling water will be available for purchase, but this event is BYOB. Ice will be available if needed, wine keys and 9oz cups provided! Doors at 7:45pm, Show at 8pm. 

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for the Horne/Clemons Quartet! Jonathan Horne – Guitar Cat Clemons – Guitar Sam Pankey – Bass Jeffrey Olson – Drums About Jonathan Farrell: Jonathan Farrell Horne (b. 1983 in Knoxville, TN) is a self taught guitarist currently on tour for the last 2 years, traveling between the US, Norway, the EU, and South America. Jonathan has spent the last 20 years based in Austin, TX collaborating within the realms of many styles and disciplines of music. Jonathan Horne currently plays guitar with the Young Mothers, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten’s (Exit) Knarr, Water Damage, Thor and Friends, Heavy Meddo, his Norway based rock band Horne (w/ Olaf Olsen, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, and Jonas Cambien), a trio with Paal Nilssen Love and Jon Rune Strom, a quartet with Andreas Roysum, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, and Andreas Wildhagen, Horne + Holt, Fussy Chickens (duo with Sandy Ewen), and THC Trio (Thomson, Horne, & Lisa Cameron). Horne has also worked with Glenn Branca, Joe McPhee, Burton Greene, Perry Robinson, Kurt Newman, Bob Hoffnar, Rob Mazurek, Chad Taylor, Jaimie Branch, Julien Desprez, Mette Rasmussen, Weasel Walter, Damon Smith, Marshall R. Trammell, Mars Williams, Dave Rempis, Jason Stein, Chris Cogburn, Jeph Jerman, Sarah Hennies, Eugene Chadbourne, Tetuzi Akiyama, Tom Carter, Nate Cross, Misha Marks, Hans Hulbækmo, Alex Coke, Omar Tamez, White Denim, and many others. About Cat Clemons: Cat Clemons III is a guitarist, bassist, composer, and educator based in Austin, Texas. Cat has been a central figure in Austin’s vibrant music scene for the past 15 years, performing and recording with many of the city’s top groups including Wild Child, White Denim, Sir Woman, and Hot Texas Swing Band, as well as leading his own genre-defying project, The Cat Clemons Corporation. NEW ADDRESS | 310 E SAINT ELMO ROAD, UNIT B AUSTIN TX 78745 Please Note: This is a live-taping, so we'll be enforcing a whisper-policy! Cold bottles of still and sparkling water will be available for purchase, but this event is BYOB. Ice will be available if needed, wine keys and 9oz cups provided! First Show: Doors at 7:45pm, Show at 8pm. Second Show: Doors at 9:45pm, Show at 10pm. 

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for Eloise Live from Monks | Texas Tour! Eloise Carter – Vocals Marco Santos – Guitar Mike Sailors – Trumpet Judah Guerra – Bass Daniel Dufour – Drums Growing up as the sole Ella Fitzgerald and Natalie Cole enthusiast in the household, Eloise’s passion for jazz blossomed naturally. She began voice lessons at age 13 at the San Fransisco Conservatory of Music. In high school, she shifted to an independent coach, oscillating her study between musical theater and jazz traditions. While studying Theater and Education Psychology at Sarah Lawrence College, Eloise’s step-father encouraged her desire to sing by producing a house concert series during her semester breaks from school. After receiving her bachelors degree, Eloise attended The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater, a two year acting conservatory in New York City. Her postgraduate pursuit of music began as side project with a friend as a way to feel invigorated while auditioning. A few gigs later, Eloise decided to investigate a career in music more seriously. Now she is fresh out of the Tribeca Jazz Institute’s Vocal Intensive, taught by Lucy Yegazarian. An emerging artist in both the acting and music fields, Eloise was recently in a short film premiering at the Austin Film Festival, is working on a Shakespeare adaptation entitled Gents Can’t Measure, writing her first short film script, and planning to release her debut EP in 2025. With deep Texas roots, she’s thrilled be back at Monks Jazz Club in Austin. NEW ADDRESS | 310 E SAINT ELMO ROAD, UNIT B AUSTIN TX 78745 Please Note: This is a live-taping, so we'll be enforcing a whisper-policy! Cold bottles of still and sparkling water will be available for purchase, but this event is BYOB. Ice will be available if needed, wine keys and 9oz cups provided! First Show: Doors at 7:45pm, Show at 8pm. Second Show: Doors at 9:45pm, Show at 10pm. 

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for Carolyn Trowbridge's Album Release Show! Carolyn Trowbridge – Vibraphone Jenny Carson and Caitlin Palmer – Vocals Elaine Barber – Harp Alex Coke – Flute Jason Frey – Saxophone Bryan Sunderman – Guitar Mario Castellanos – Bass Andy Beaudoin – Drums Austin Music Award-nominated multi-instrumental musician, performer, and composer, Carolyn Trowbridge is an energetic, multifaceted artist. Her innovative fluency with her craft creates sonic experiences, fueled by a zealous passion for all things “sound”. She has recorded, collaborated and performed with several well-known artists including Jaime Wyatt, Adrian Quesada, Star Parks, Alex Coke/Carl Michel Sextet, Billy Sheehan, Hard Proof, Tracii Guns, Grammy Award nominees Black Pumas and many more. In 2023, Trowbridge established her own 5-piece project, Found Memories, an evocative homage to all the impactful moments within her mind, from a spirited grackle attack to the winding staircase of her Czech childhood home. In addition to her projects and regular performance schedule, Trowbridge is an established music educator with 20+ years of experience teaching theory, composition and practical skills, delivering masterclasses across the country and competing internationally. In 2018, she co-directed the Walsh Middle School percussion ensemble, leading them to win the award of the International Percussion Ensemble Competition, where they performed at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention. She is also an active member of Austin’s steel band community, performing at private events and weddings, as well as alongside the Inside Out Steel band and performing at Trinidad and Tobago’s Panorama, an annual music competition of steel bands. NEW ADDRESS | 310 E SAINT ELMO ROAD, UNIT B AUSTIN TX 78745 Please Note: This is a live-taping, so we'll be enforcing a whisper-policy! Cold bottles of still and sparkling water will be available for purchase, but this event is BYOB. Ice will be available if needed, wine keys and 9oz cups provided! First Show: Doors at 7:45pm, Show at 8pm. Second Show: Doors at 9:45pm, Show at 10pm. 

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for the Chris Jones Album Release Show | "Meatsuits on Parade" Ethan Lord – Saxophone Drew Simpson – Guitar Josh Meadows – Piano Chris Jones – Bass Mike Gordon – Drums Composer/upright bassist Chris Jones brings his quintet to Monk’s for a special show to celebrate the release of his new album titled “Meatsuits on Parade.” The performance features all original music that fuses traditional jazz with a wide array of musical and artistic influences. Originally from Portland, Oregon, bassist and composer Chris Jones made his home in Boston, New York and Tokyo before settling in Austin in 2008. Along the way he’s worked with traditional and progressive jazz ensembles, singer/songwriters, symphony orchestras and avant-garde Japanese rock bands. In 2018, he toured Japan with acclaimed trombonist Andre Hayward to promote their co-led album Way Back Home. Chris now performs regularly in the Austin area with a variety of artists including Pamela Hart, Marco Santos' Live Jukebox Trio, Cicely Jones, Ange K and many others. For this performance, Chris brings his quartet to Monk's to play his original compositions which draw from diverse, unexpected influences, reflecting his interests in art and music from home and around the world. NEW ADDRESS | 310 E SAINT ELMO ROAD, UNIT B AUSTIN TX 78745 Please Note: This is a live-taping, so we'll be enforcing a whisper-policy! Cold bottles of still and sparkling water will be available for purchase, but this event is BYOB. Ice will be available if needed, wine keys and 9oz cups provided! Doors at 7:45pm, Show at 8pm. 

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for the Peggy Stern Quintet! Peggy Stern – Piano Joey Colarusso – Tenor Saxophone Brian Bettger – Trumpet David Craig – Bass Rob Kazenel – Drums ARTIST STATEMENT: This concert for the New Year, New Venue of Monks will feature several new compositions by Stern. Known both as a pianist and composer, with 4 of her tunes in the Real Book series, Peggy is excited to debut her new pieces in such a forward-thinking environment. And what a band! NEW ADDRESS | 310 E SAINT ELMO ROAD, UNIT B AUSTIN TX 78745 Please Note: This is a live-taping, so we'll be enforcing a whisper-policy! Cold bottles of still and sparkling water will be available for purchase, but this event is BYOB. Ice will be available if needed, wine keys and 9oz cups provided! Doors at 7:45pm, Show at 8pm. 

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for AJS Presents: Wilson Marks Quartet! Wilson Marks – Guitar Stephen Smith – Keyboards Sam Pankey – 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. ——— Make a donation to be recognized: Supporter Level: Donate $50 or more, and we'll mention your name as a Supporter of the "AJS Presents: Midweek @ Monks" series, as part of the mission to creating more sustaining performance opportunities for Austin jazz musicians! Sponsor Level: Donate $100 or more, you’ll be recognized as a Sponsor of the "AJS Presents: Midweek @ Monks" series. Please Note: This is a live-taping, so we'll be enforcing a whisper-policy! Cold bottles of still and sparkling water will be available for purchase, but this event is BYOB. Ice will be available if needed, wine keys and 9oz cups provided! Doors at 7:45pm, Show at 8pm. 

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for AJS Presents: The Indestructible Now! Joe Roddy – Piano Damien Valenzuela – Saxophones Danny Kerner – Guitar Jesse Ebaugh – Double Bass Jack Montesinos – Double Bass Steve Mankenberg – Drums Nico Léophonte – Drums The Indestructible Now! Is born of the marriage of two groups, the Sahara Quartet and the Eternal Now! 5tet. Sahara is a group that came out of the open free jams at the Sahara Lounge on Austin’s east side, curated by Damien Valenzuela. Here Valenzuela, Ebaugh, Kerner and Mankenberg found themselves coalescing as a group, and have been gigging around town for a few years with their own brand of free and composed post-bop. They have a second self produced LP slated for release on December 20th. Eternal Now is the moniker used by Austin instrumental greats The Point when they turn to improvised music. The two groups met in an East Austin studio, David Boyle’s Church House. In February of 2025 they recorded an amazing group of compositions and improvisations that are slated for a release sometime in the spring of 2026, to be titled Vox Cordis. These musicians are hard workers on the Austin scene… Ebaugh came out of the rock band Heartless Bastards to form his own country rock band the Tender Things, and is a journeyman bass player. Valenzuela is in the rising funk band Cazayoux, and along with Kerner, anchors the band at Sahara’s Africa Night. In addition to their band The Point, Roddy (a relative of Ted Roddy) and Montesinos are gigging country and blues musicians as well, as members of Cactus Lee, The Mellows and Sentimental Family Band. Nico Léophonte owns a renowned studio called Alnico Studios, and is producer of The Point’s first album. Mankenberg is a remarkable drummer with deep ties to the Austin jazz community. The group continues to evolve, and attract serious players, with a mission of creating something of deep spiritual value and essential humanity. NEW ADDRESS | 310 E SAINT ELMO ROAD, UNIT B AUSTIN TX 78745 ——— Make a donation to be recognized: Supporter Level: Donate $50 or more, and we'll mention your name as a Supporter of the "AJS Presents: Midweek @ Monks" series, as part of the mission to creating more sustaining performance opportunities for Austin jazz musicians! Sponsor Level: Donate $100 or more, you’ll be recognized as a Sponsor of the "AJS Presents: Midweek @ Monks" series. Please Note: This is a live-taping, so we'll be enforcing a whisper-policy! Cold bottles of still and sparkling water will be available for purchase, but this event is BYOB. Ice will be available if needed, wine keys and 9oz cups provided! Doors at 7:45pm, Show at 8pm. 

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for the Bidwell/Marshall Quartet! Jaron Marshall – Piano Elias Haslanger – Saxophone Erik Telford – Trumpet Sam Pankey – Bass Stephen Bidwell – Drums Stephen Bidwell and Jaron Marshall have been anchoring the rhythm section of Austin’s Grammy-nominated psychedelic-soul juggernaut Black Pumas since the band’s meteoric rise in 2019. Outside the Pumas' world tour circuit, the two have long bonded over a mutual love of hard bop and funky early-'60s Blue Note cuts: music that grooves as hard as it swings. When their schedules align, they call up a few trusted players and put together a setlist that leans into the soulful side of the jazz canon. This project is a nod to their roots and a chance to stretch in a different direction with deep pocket, deep cuts, and no filler. NEW ADDRESS | 310 E SAINT ELMO ROAD, UNIT B AUSTIN TX 78745 Please Note: This is a live-taping, so we'll be enforcing a whisper-policy! Cold bottles of still and sparkling water will be available for purchase, but this event is BYOB. Ice will be available if needed, wine keys and 9oz cups provided! Doors at 7:45pm, Show at 8pm. 

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for The Austin Django Project | Annual Django Reinhardt Birthday Celebration! Jamey Cummins - Guitar Jake Harrell - Guitar Alen Cileli - Violin Phil Spencer -Bass Lead by Jamey Cummins, The Austin Django Project is a collective of Austin-based guitarists and string players. Honoring one of the greatest to ever do it, the collective brings to life the inspired work of the father of Gypsy Jazz, Django Reinhardt. Please Note: This is a live-taping, so we'll be enforcing a whisper-policy! Cold bottles of still and sparkling water will be available for purchase, but this event is BYOB. Ice will be available if needed, wine keys and 9oz cups provided! 22 free parking spaces onsite are first-come-first-serve. First Show: Doors at 7:45pm, Show at 8pm. Second Show: Doors at 9:45pm, Show at 10pm.