Scott Robinson with the Monks Jazz Orchestra | The Jazz Purveyor Presents

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!