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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.

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.

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.

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for the Daniel Durham Quintet!

Elena Diaz – Vocals

Brian Donohoe – Tenor Saxophone

Daniel Raynaud – Piano

Daniel Durham – Upright Bass, Vocals

Aaron Parks – Drums

Native Austinite Daniel Durham has been performing professionally for over 20 years. By the age of 16, Daniel was playing in clubs regularly with some of the top players around. After years of intensive study at the New England Conservatory of Music, Daniel returned home to quickly become one of the busiest musicians in town. Over the years, Daniel has played in many musical circumstances- from straight-ahead jazz, to big-stage rock, to salsa and merengue, classical, the sacred and the blasphemous, children’s music, forró, jams with homeless street performers, and many more. Daniel currently holds down a residency at Nica Jazz Bar in downtown Austin.

Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for Progger!

Brian Donohoe – Saxophone, Keyboards

Matt Muehling – Guitar

Chris McQueen – Guitar

Matt Weatherly – Bass

Daniel Watson – Drums

Progger is a trans-continental squadron of musicians and composers that started as a jam session in south Austin. Through four critically-acclaimed studio albums and countless live performances, Progger’s instrumental music is written and played by real humans for other real humans to hear and feel real human feelings. No part of the struggles, triumphs, or joy in the group’s creative work is outsourced to generative software.

Led by Oscar-nominated saxophonist, keyboardist, and composer Brian Donohoe, Progger’s individual contributors are accomplished touring and session musicians who have worked with major artists (including Jon Batiste and Bruno Mars) as well as Austin-area heroes (like the Black Pumas, Jackie Venson, and Gary Clark Junior). The band’s long-awaited fifth album, Chronology, was recorded at Church House Studio in east Austin during October 2025, to be released in 2026 on La Reserve Records, and features members of the extended Progger family who flew in from New York, Los Angeles, and Japan.

Prior to Chronology, Progger released their first two records independently (Beatmaker and Populace) and their third and fourth through Ropeadope Records (Scattering and Dystopia). Those records, along with performances supporting the likes of Parliament-Funkadelic, Knower, the Funky Knuckles, and Snarky Puppy, have helped the band cultivate a devoted global fan base.