John Beasley's Monk'estra & The Thelomious Monk Institute Ensemble at Jazz Bakery's Movable Feast Series at Musicians Institute

This performance is co-presented with the 2015 Angel City Jazz Festival.

General $25 / Student (21 & Under w/ID) $20
Click link above for advance tickets
or call (800) 838-3006 x1

ONE SHOW - TWO BANDS!
Absolutely NO flash photography of any kind!

John Beasley - keys
Bob Sheppard - sax/woodwinds
Justo Almario - sax/woodwinds
Danny Janklow - sax/woodwinds
Tom Luer - sax/woodwinds
Tommy Petersen - sax/woodwinds
Brian Swartz - trumpets
Dontae Winslow - trumpets
Brandyn Phillips - trumpets
Jamie Hovorka - trumpets...

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This performance is co-presented with the 2015 Angel City Jazz Festival.

General $25 / Student (21 & Under w/ID) $20
Click link above for advance tickets
or call (800) 838-3006 x1

ONE SHOW - TWO BANDS!
Absolutely NO flash photography of any kind!

John Beasley - keys
Bob Sheppard - sax/woodwinds
Justo Almario - sax/woodwinds
Danny Janklow - sax/woodwinds
Tom Luer - sax/woodwinds
Tommy Petersen - sax/woodwinds
Brian Swartz - trumpets
Dontae Winslow - trumpets
Brandyn Phillips - trumpets
Jamie Hovorka - trumpets
Lemar Guillary - trombone
Ryan Dragon - trombone
Lasim Richards - trombone
Steve Hughes - trombone
Benjamin Shepherd - bass
Terreon Gully - drums

It's a double birthday celebration for Thelonious Monk and John Beasley featuring John's MONK'estra and The TMIJ.

“Some of the most mesmerizing big band music of recent memory. Beasley’s arrangements…expanding and elaborating on the Monk originals…captured Monk’s unique quirkiness, the offbeat accents, punchy dissonances and surprisingly soaring melodies…with stunningly atmospheric ensemble textures. His obviously extraordinary orchestrating abilities, combined with superb individual soloing from virtually every musician, resulted in a definitive display of Big, Modern and Jazz Band.” —Don Heckman, International Review of Music

John Beasley, the one-time keyboardist for Freddie Hubbard and Miles Davis, whose playing reflects a variety of generational influences, incorporating the emphatic chordal clusters of Herbie Hancock, the rhythmic quirkiness of Monk and the lush intelligence of Art Tatum into a highly refined personal voice.” —Los Angeles Times

“John Beasley is one of the best pianists and improvisers on the jazz scene today. Beasley is a master musician, with total command of the jazz language, and his playing is always intense in both emotion and technique.” —All About Jazz

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