Hello to all you music-loving Glover Gardens followers! I’ve got jazz news: Thomas Wenglinski, AKA our Musical Millennial here in the blog, is headlining a quintet at Monks Jazz in Austin, Texas on Sunday, December 15. Here’s the blurb from the show promo on the Monks web site:
Join us for a live taping and listening-room concert for the Thomas Wenglinski Quintet!
Thomas Wenglinski - Keyboards; Paulo Santos - Saxophones; Joel White - Guitar; James Suter - Bass; Zach Kursman - Drums ...and featuring guest vocalist Amanda Bellitto
Thomas Wenglinski is an award-winning composer, arranger, and pianist currently based in Miami, Florida. Originally hailing from suburban Houston, he moved to Austin in 2016 to pursue a degree in Jazz Composition at the University of Texas under the direction of John Mills and Jeff Hellmer. After a vibrant four years studying, performing and writing music in Central Texas, he headed east to the University of Miami in 2020, where he has since completed his Masters Degree and currently pursues a D.M.A. under the direction of Stephen Guerra. He currently maintains a strong connection to Austin’s music community, and in 2021 he co-founded the critically acclaimed Christian Wiggs Big Band with its titular leader and vocalist.
Thomas has performed with and/or arranged for such artists as Anat Cohen, Tom Scott, Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, Joe Lovano, Christian Wiggs, Benny Benack III, Martina DaSilva, Kate Kortum, Christopher Cross, Woody Witt, BluMoon, and numerous others. He regularly cites Stevie Wonder, Genevieve Artadi, Vince Mendoza, Thom Bell, and Thad Jones as crucial influences.
Can’t make it? No problem!
Sign up here for the live stream, and watch at your leisure. There’s a $10 fee, but you will get your money’s worth, my friends. This is a stellar group of musicians and there’s a special guest, singer Amanda Bellito. I have seen Thomas and Amanda perform together before, and it’s magic. Here’s a short recording from Amanda’s Instagram of a version of Edelweiss that Thomas arranged, the last time they performed together at Monks.
If you tune into the livestream, you’ll hear us clapping from the front row. 😊
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