Austin Jazz Society Presents The Wilson Marks Quartet at Monks Jazz Club

Come join Austin Jazz Society as they continue the collaboration with Monks Jazz Club at their new location. This is a series known as MidWeek at Monks. Guitarist Wilson Marks brings an outstanding quartet to the new location of Monks jazz Club.

About Wilson Marks
"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." - Courtesy of The Austin Chronicle....

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Come join Austin Jazz Society as they continue the collaboration with Monks Jazz Club at their new location. This is a series known as MidWeek at Monks. Guitarist Wilson Marks brings an outstanding quartet to the new location of Monks jazz Club.

About Wilson Marks
"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." - Courtesy of The 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.

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