Grammy-Award Winning Jazz Titan Lewis Nash Plays Live At Monks

The Details:

What: UT Jazz Faculty featuring Lewis Nash. An intimate live-taped listening-room performance.
Where: Monks Jazz Club
When: April 4 @ 8:00 PM & 10:00 PM
Tickets: (Click here.)

Grammy-Award winning jazz musician Lewis Nash is “universally recognized as one of the great drummers in jazz history,” and “one of jazz’s most recorded musicians.” He’s “appeared on over 500 recordings” and his resume “reads like a ‘who’s who’ of jazz royalty.”

And, next week, at Monks Jazz Club in East Austin, you can listen to him in concert.

Here’s Nash in action:

Nash will accompany a “dynamic collective of world-class musicians and educators” from “the University of Texas Jazz Faculty Ensemble.”

Leading the Ensemble is Diego Rivera, Professor of Jazz Saxophone and Director of Jazz Studies, “known for his muscular tone and unique blend of straight-ahead jazz fused with music inspired by his Chicano background and heritage.”

Outside of the classroom, he has “released 6 critically-acclaimed albums” and “performed concerts at the most prestigious venues and festivals across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia.”

Here’s Rivera, performing live at Monks in 2023:

The Monks Jazz Club Vibe. In its nearly decade-long history, Monks has transformed from “four pallets together and [a] grand piano on a rolling stage” to “a pop-up listening room” to its current state as “a state-of-the-art audio and video recording studio and event space in the heart of East Austin.”

Here’s how Sara Schleede describes it for the Daily Texan:

“Past a rusted iron gate, between for-rent storage spaces and warehouses, a sign reads MONKS. Red brick encloses the inside and no windows violate the space’s tranquility. The tables illuminate themselves by candlelight — except for lights on the stage, where a combo warms up, cracking wise all the while.”

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