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Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for the Jazz Purveyor Presents: Memorial Day with the Summer Camargo Big Band!

Summer Camargo – Trumpet

Saxophones: Seth Carper, Matt Chavez, Eli Wyatt, Ripley Swingle, and Aidan Brown

Trumpets: Matt Collins, Mike Sailors, Isaac Pittinger, and Jonah Springs

Trombones: Andre Hayward, Judah Guerra, Jacob Martinez, and Demetreis Thornton

Joao Camargo – Piano

Ryan Hagler – Bass

Daniel Dufour – Drums

Jazz is a music of liberty, legacy, and democracy. We come together to honor our common culture and tradition in an expression of America’s Classical Music. Summer Camargo leads a large ensemble in full fanfare performance on Memorial Day at Monks. 

Summer Camargo is a 24-year-old jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader who was recently named "25 for the Future" rising jazz stars by DownBeat magazine. Summer is a native of Hollywood, Florida and a Jerome Greene Fellowship recipient at The Juilliard School, where she received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Summer is a regular performer at notable NYC jazz clubs like Dizzy’s and Birdland, as well as a member of the Mingus Big Band. In 2022 Summer became the newest and youngest member of the Saturday Night Live house band and is also enjoying her most recent role as a band member in Broadway’s new musical, Just in Time.

Steadily collecting a list of competition wins, grants, and awards, Summer was awarded the Ella Fitzgerald Outstanding Soloist Award, the Dr. J. Douglas White Student Composition Contest, the International Trumpet Guild’s Ryan Anthony Trumpet Memorial Competition, and the Outstanding Trumpet Soloist Awards at Jazz at Lincoln Center's 2017, 2018, and 2019 Essentially Ellington Festivals. 

In her young career, Summer has toured with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra on the Big Band Holidays tour, performed with Jon Batiste at the Newport Jazz Festival, was a guest artist at Wynton at 60, participated in Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead at The Kennedy Center, and performed her original composition “Alalazoo” at the 2022 Jazz at Lincoln Center Gala.

Summer released her debut album To Whom I Love with Blue Engine Records in March of 2024, which received a notable review in DownBeat magazine and was featured in their Hot Box. Summer is also a proud Conn Selmer/Bach artist.

Presented by The Jazz Purveyor.

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for Hard Proof Presents: Miles at 100 | Bitches Brew!

Joseph Woullard – Saxophones, Bass Clarinet

Jason Frey – Saxophones

Erik Telford – Trumpet

John Branch – Guitar

Aaron Slater – Guitar

Eddie Torres – Fender Bass

Liam Odell – Bass

JaRon Marshall – Keyboards

Jan Fleming – Keyboards, Organ

Thomas Spampinato – Percussion

John Speice IV – Drums, Percussion

Steve Bidwell – Drums, Percussion

In early 2020, Hard Proof assembled to try something that was a big deviation from the dancefloor-friendly afrobeat explorations they were known for: perform Miles Davis' sprawling, genre-obliterating masterpiece Bitches Brew in its entirety. They rehearsed it once. The grooves were locking in, the energy was building, and then COVID happened. The 50th anniversary of the album came and went, and that rehearsal became a memory of what could have been.

But some things are worth waiting for. May 26th marks what would have been Miles Davis' 100th birthday, and Hard Proof is finally bringing Bitches Brew to life at Monks Jazz. Joined by trumpeter Erik Telford, keyboardist Jaron Marshall, and other special guests, the band will attempt to capture the electric, free-flowing intensity that made the album revolutionary. It's been five years since that lone rehearsal—and this is a one-night-only event. May 26th, 8pm at Monks Jazz. Come witness them either nail it or stumble into some other magical chaos.

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for Chase Baird Quintet!

Chase Baird – Tenor Saxophone

Michael Fradkin – Saxophone

Andy Langham – Piano

Aaron Allen – Bass

Gerry Gibbs – Drums

Part experimental rocker, part classical romantic and part hard-bop devotee, saxophonist and composer Chase Baird has been described as "... the future of jazz music and the saxophone" by Grammy Award-winning trumpeter Randy Brecker.

His latest album, A Life Between, covers a vast emotional terrain with a band comprised of modern jazz’s most revered innovators. Pianist Brad Mehldau and drummer Antonio Sánchez are veteran companions alongside new-generation talents Nir Felder, guitar, and Dan Chmielinski, bass. Critics have declared the album “…a truly inspired, dare we say, epic recording complete with progressive singularities and sonic cosmicalities.”

Chase has worked as a sideman with pop icon Chaka Khan, legendary Chicago vocalist Bill Champlin as well as indie-rocker Jakob Dylan. In the jazz realm, he has performed or recorded with Chris Botti, Brad Mehldau, Antonio Sánchez, Mike Stern, Antonio Faraò, Mike Clark, Victor Wooten, Thana Alexa, Dennis Chambers, Julian Pollack (J3PO), Dan Tepfer, Thomas Dawson, Steve Lyman and others.

During 2017 - 2020, Chase performed as an active member of drummer Antonio Sánchez’s band Migration, recording both saxophone and EWI (Electronic Wind Instrument) on the groups’ acclaimed album Lines In The Sand. He also recorded and toured with multi-generational progressive jazz ensemble Venture, featuring drum legend Mike Clark, multi-instrumentalist Mark Sherman and electric bassist Felix Pastorius. Venture explores hard-bop roots and accents of funk and fusion on their first studio collaboration, Life Cycle, released on Ropeadope Records in May 2018.

Chase plays exclusively EWI with all-synthesizer band Circuit Kisser, created by collaborator Dan “Chimy“ Chmielinski. The band’s most recent album, First Kiss, released on La Reserve Records in 2023. When not touring, Chase makes his home in Austin, Texas.

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for the Sasha Ripley Quintet!

Sasha Ripley – Tenor Saxophone

Jalen Baker – Vibraphone

Phineas Davenport – Piano 

Marwan Ghonima – Bass

Gavin Moolchan – Drums 

Sasha Ripley is a dynamic tenor saxophonist, composer, and educator whose work bridges the rich musical traditions of his Houston upbringing and Russian heritage with contemporary jazz innovation. From an early age, Sasha demonstrated exceptional talent, gaining admission to Houston’s Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts and later earning a prestigious World Tour Scholarship to Berklee College of Music. His artistic development was further shaped by immersive study at the Global Jazz Institute under the mentorship of Grammy-winning pianist Danilo Perez, and culminated with a Master’s degree from the notoriously prestigious Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz at UCLA.

Sasha’s music is characterized by a deep sense of storytelling, created by melding intricate improvisation with cultural narratives that reflect his diverse background. His newest compositions from his debut album, Music from the People explore themes of identity, community, and transformation. He has performed extensively across the United States and internationally, appearing at renowned venues such as Birdland in New York City, the Blue Note Jazz Festival, the Hollywood Bowl and iconic international cultural centers from Abu Dhabi to Mumbai.

Performing with some of the most respected names in jazz—including Herbie Hancock, Dianne Reeves, George Garzone, Marcus Miller, and Christian McBride—Sasha actively expands his horizons by using these experiences to push the music forward.

‘‘Sasha is an extremely talented saxophonist and generational talent.’’ – Godwin Louis

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for the Elias Haslanger | Tribute to Joe Henderson! 

Elias and his all-star band will play the music and celebrate the life and legacy of one of the most important tenor saxophonists of all-time, Joe Henderson. Elias has studied Joe's music for years and will showcase some of his most famous compositions and a few that are off the beaten path for this night of music at Monks.

Elias Haslanger – Saxophone

Mike Sailors – Trumpet

Andy Langham – Piano

Ryan Hagler – Bass

Daniel Dufour – Drums

Over the span of his 30-year music career, native Texan and Austin resident Elias Haslanger has carved a unique and distinguished place in jazz history as a saxophonist, composer, and band leader, whose playing and writing has drawn comparisons to John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Ben Webster, and Wayne Shorter. He has performed, recorded, and toured with many world-class artists including Ellis Marsalis, Maynard Ferguson, Christopher Cross, Charlie Hunter, Asleep at the Wheel, Alejandro Escovedo, Sheryl Crow, Grupo Fantasma, Spoon, The Four Tops, and The Temptations, among many others.

Mentored by the legendary saxophonists Harvey Pittel and Dick Oatts, Elias studied saxophone at the University of Texas and then at the Manhattan School of Music. His interest in writing music culminated in a Master’s Degree in Composition at Texas State University in San Marcos. Elias has performed around the United States and Europe at clubs like Snug Harbor in New Orleans, Jazz Alley in Seattle, The Elephant Room in Austin, and The Blue Note in New York. He has also served as a guest artist/lecturer at universities around the nation.

Elias has 7 recordings as a leader all of which have been played on radio stations across the world. His 2014 recording LIVE at the Gallery, received 4.5 stars in Downbeat magazine and was listed as one of the best recordings of the year.

"Haslanger's freewheeling licks roar with virtuosity and infectious joie de vivre."

-Michael Jackson, DownBeat