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The T.S. Monk Sextet’s highly anticipated live album with seven songs is characterized by the steady pulse and groove that the world has come to know and love as the “T.S. Monk Sextet Sound”.

Two Continents One Groove is out now on Storyville Records.

Monk, also known as “Toot”, leads his sextet with an innovative and dynamic approach. Since 1992, the drummer has worked exclusively with his co-players, making the sound of the sextet incredibly tight. When they roll out their arsenal, they soar and swing, and are indeed exciting to hear. In that regard, it might be quite surprising to learn that this is Monk’s very first live album!

“This is my first live recording, ever! It’s daunting and an uncertain kind
of product. Most live albums aren’t that good. I’ve been lucky to always
have great people working with me.”

Cat. #: 1018530
Format: Digital & CD
Release: 17-June-2022
Storyville Records
www.storyvillerecords.com

The seven songs on the album are taken from two performances at two similar jazz rooms over a two-year period; three are from “Harlem’s Jazz Shrines Festival: Jazzmobile presents Minton’s Playhouse” at Ginny’s Supper Club on May 7, 2014, while others were recorded at Marians Jazzroom in Bern, Switzerland on April 24, 2016.

Drummer, percussionist, composer, producer and bandleader, T. S. Monk has taken his place in the pantheon of jazz royalty, to which he was born. The swing is DNA inherited and absorbed in this master drummer’s persona.

Monk’s sextet consists of some of the best jazz musicians in the business, each bringing something special to the table. Willie Williams on tenor saxophone is the original member of the sextet, who came up under the tutelage of Grover Washington, Jr. Additionally, we have the Chicago native, Kenny Davis on bass, who has worked with notables such as Cassandra Wilson and Kevin Eubanks, trumpeter Josh Evans, multi-reedist Patience Higgins, guitarist Dave Stryker and pianist and composer Helen Sung, a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow.

Two Continents One Groove is a masterpiece, so follow him to a new
promised land. As he states:

“If there’s one thing this album is, it’s swingin’! I hope you agree.”

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Special Guests:
GRACE KELLY/Saxophone
KEN PEPLOWSKI/Clarinet…& more

Produced by Pat Philips Stratta

The Django Reinhardt NY Festival launched in 2000 at Birdland is in it’s 18th year. Out of the Festival came the top players, The Django Festival Allstars, who tour 2X a year and always spend a week at their home in the US, BIRDLAND. On the road, to standing ovations, they play top venues -Hollywood Bowl, San Francisco Jazz Festival, Kennedy Center, Montreal Jazz Festival and much more with original music in the style and Django favorites. This past summer at the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Bowl, critic Scott Yanow wrote “highpoint of the entire festival” !

Dad, DORADO SCHMITT, started performing in NY in 2002 when SAMSON was 21 and AMATI 5, all grown up now and together on the Birdland stage for the first time. It’s a family dynasty of enormous talent that comes from the soul of gypsy life where music is God, joined by virtuoso accordionist LUDOVIC BEIER and Grappelli protégé, PIERRE BLANCHARD, on Violin. They will put you on the edge of your seats with joy, smiles, shock you with their hot #’s and break your heart with a ballad, joined by gypsy cousin, Francko Mehrstein, on rhythm guitar and Gino Roman on Bass.

Special guests include the young great saxist Grace Kelly on Nov. 7, 8, and 11 and top swinging clarinetist Ken Peploski on Nov. 9 and 10. For a change of pace, newcomer Chris Smith will be on drums on Nov. 12th.

The music harkens back to the 30’s and 40’s in France to the Hot Club Quintette of Django and Grappelli, romantic days in ‘ol Paris with swing music in the dance halls and streets while campfires lit up the sky on the outskirts of Paris with gypsy life. Music and family was and still is King ! Hot Jazz has more than survived, is vibrant and causing a sensation all over the country.

The musicians will again be on tour as well (see schedule below) and at their NY home, Birdland Nov. 7-12 before returning home to Paris and gypsy community Forbach, France, near Germany. It’s real, it’s romantic, it’s exciting…let your heart lead the way. The Festival was co-founded by Maestro Ettore Stratta.

DJANGO FESTIVAL ALLSTARS US TOUR
November
3: The DAKOTA, Minneapolis, MN
5: The CABOT THEATRE, Berkeley, MA
6: The KENNEDY CENTER, Washington DC
7-12: BIRDLAND, New York City
15: UBS Atrium Series Mid-Day Concert Series, Weehawken, NJ
17: EQT JAZZ STAGE “Light Up Night’ Celebration, Pittsburgh, PA
18: MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN’S GUILD, Pittsburgh, PA

Participating sponsors:
AIR FRANCE
RD WRIGHT,INC.
JOHN PEARSE STRINGS
John and Joan D’Addario Foundation
The ROW HOTEL – 44th Street and Eighth Ave.

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Special Guests:
Cyrille Aimee, Bria Skonberg, Joel Frahm,
Jorge Continentino, Borislav Strulev, and more…

‘HOT HOT JAZZ’
A special piece will be performed in tribute to Ettore Stratta
DORADO SCHMITT and his young son AMATI return to the US to tour with ‘5’ concerts at the San Francisco Jazz Festival, The Kennedy Center, NJPAC James Moody Jazz Festival, and more, winding up at their home BIRDLAND November 17-22. Birdland launched the Festival in 2000 , now in its 16th successful year! The Festival has been produced by Pat Philips & Ettore Stratta.

Over the years, a top Jazz band in the style of Django has evolved onstage at Birdland at the Django Reinhardt NY Festival. It carries on the legacy of legendary gypsy guitarist DJANGO REINHARDT in a contemporary style holding on to the joy, hot sounds, and romance of the music inspired by America’s standard repertoire and great musicians such as Duke Ellington, harking back to the 20’s and 30’s in France bringing “Le Hot Jazz” to today where we call it “Hip Hot Jazz”.
AMATI Schmitt was a young boy, 3 years old at the time Dorado started coming to the Festival, now at 19, he is a seasoned player in his own right. DORADO Schmitt, gypsy guitar star and leader, passed on the tradition of Django’s style, as is done in gypsy life from generation to generation, as his Dad did with him teaching guitar and violin. They come from Forbach, France, a gypsy community near Germany where music and family is the center of life.

Over the years, the Producers Pat Philips and Ettore Stratta brought others to the stage joining the Schmitts such as Ludovic Beier , accordionist and accordina musician, and Pierre Blanchard, violinist…DouDou Cuillerier, rhythm guitarist and mean scat singer….henceforth the evolution of this spectacular band many years in the making along with Xavier Nikq on bass (Brian Torff is bassist in the summer). The band is in demand across the country for major tours 2X a year .

There will be a special piece dedicated to the life and tremendous talent and career of Maestro Ettore Stratta, co-founder of the Festival, partner and beloved husband of Pat Philips (Stratta).
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Each night there is a Special Guest as follows:
November 17: Bria Skonberg/trumpet & vocals
18: Anat Cohen
19: Jorge Continentino/flute
20: Joel Frahm/sax
21: Borislav Strulev/cello
22: Cyrille Aimee/vocalist
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About the Django Festival Allstars!-at The Newport Jazz Festival
“A Standout performance” !
Ludovic Beier -“played like an angel, heart wrenching and as good a solo as was heard at Newport” ………. Allen Morrison… Downbeat Magazine

“Best show in town” !…
“No Violinist captures the true romantic fire of Pierre Blanchard
Will Friedwald, Wall Street Journal

Dorado Schmitt – “The elder Schmitt’s virtuosity…on full display…lightening fast fingerwork, powerful strumming, astonishing fast tempos”…….. LA Times

Tour Schedule:
Nov. 5,6,7,8 SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ FESTIVAL
9 KUUMBWA JAZZ CENTER, SANTA CRUZ, CA
10 LOBERO THEATRE, SANTA BARBARA
11 NJPAC James Moody Jazz Festival, NEWARK
13 KENNEDY CENTER, TERRACE THEATRE, WASHINGTON D.C.
14 REGATTA BAR, BOSTON
15 HUDSON PARAMOUNT THEATRE, PEEKSKILL, NY
17- 22 BIRDLAND NYC
BIRDLAND, 315 W 44th Street full dinner menu, parking nearby
Reservations: 212 581 3080 or www.birdlandjazz.com

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