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Raze Regal - Guitar

Stephen Bidwell - Drums

Brian Donohoe - Saxophones, Flute

Erik Telford - Trumpet

JaRon Marshall - Keys

Liam O’Dell - Bass

Michael Longoria - Percussion

Two musicians end up in an Uber in Austin one night. Stephen Bidwell is the driver and Raze Regal is the passenger, a perfectly everyday Austin meeting where your Uber driver is a Black Puma with several Grammy noms and the passenger is a bonafide wizard of the guitar (Once and Future Band, Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band). As musicians often do, they quickly found they had worked with a lot of the same players at the same studios. Some months later, Bidwell had him sub on a few shows with his afrobeat band Hard Proof. In scheming a means to play more, they decided the world needed a band playing the music found on CTI and associated labels of the 1970s.

Regal Bidwell Industries was born from that conversation. The vision was specific: dive into the parts of the CTI and Kudu catalogs that hip hop producers have been sampling for decades, those breakbeat-heavy, groove-forward moments that became the backbone of countless classics. Bidwell assembled some regular cohorts — Sean Giddings, Brian Donoho, Erik Telford, MIchael Longoria, and Sam Pankey — players who could lock into a pocket while leaving room for improvisation.

This goes beyond jam session vehicles like Freddie Hubbard's Red Clay and really digs into the catalog, focusing on the masterpieces tracked in Rudy Van Gelder's New Jersey studio. It's jazz for people who know their crates, funk for people who know their theory, and a living reminder that the best sample sources were made by musicians who could really play.

Jamey Cummins – Guitar

Jake Harrell – Guitar

Phil Spencer – Bass

Alen Cileli – Violin

Ben Saffer – Clarinet

Jason Baczynski – Drums

Lead by Jamey Cummins, The Austin Django Project is a collective of Austin-based guitarists and string players. Honoring one of the greatest to ever do it, the collective brings to life the inspired work of the father of Gypsy Jazz, Django Reinhardt.

Lissa Hattersley - Vocals, Rhythm/Color Guitar

Mike Barnes - Lead Guitar

Randy Glines - Electric Bass

James Fenner - Percussion

Artist's Statement:

We are four musician friends who’ve performed in various Austin groups for decades ... and it’s all about the songs! Songs we write, songs our friends write; songs by the masters like Stevie Wonder, Donald Fagen, Tom Waits, Benny Golson, Peggy Lee, Prince, Mose Allison write.. the repertoire runs the gamut from old hep to new hip.

Every Wednesday, Monks opens the stage up for a late-night jazz jam hosted by Austin's very own Daniel Dufour.

This livestream is free and open for public viewership!

Terry Bowness – Organ, Piano

Joel Frahm – Saxophone

Bruce Saunders – Guitar

Daniel Durham – Bass

Tom Brechtlein – Drums

Terry Bowness has been making music in Austin, Texas since 1997, first as a pianist, and more recently on Hammond B3 organ. Soon after arriving in Austin he joined Los Jazz Vatos, the latin jazz sextet led by Texas drum veteran Ernie Durawa and winner of several Austin Chronicle music awards. Between 1999 and 2013 he composed, produced, and released four albums of original music on Aardvark Records, garnering positive reviews and radio airplay across the globe. Terry continues to perform as a sideman with many Austin-area musicians and bands including Mitch Watkins, Bruce Saunders, Brian Pardo, Andre Hayward, Gerry Gibbs, Kevin Witt’s B-Side, The Tommy Howard Organ Trio (with Tom Brechtlein), and Elias Haslanger’s Church on Monday.

Terry graduated from UT Austin in 1997 with a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and has since designed many integrated circuits for mobile phones and other consumer and industrial products. His work on mobile phone audio amplifiers has been heard by billions of people worldwide.