John Schott

Thelonious Monk Festival

San Francisco Jazz

A rising vocal star and two-time JUNO Award winner, Montreal-based singer and songwriter Dominique Fils-Aimé performs two nights in the Joe Henderson Lab with music from her latest album, Our Roots Run Deep, which took the 2024 JUNO for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. “What she does with her voice is absolutely incredible” (NPR).

Dominique Fils-Aimé

SFJAZZ Center

As part of SFJAZZ’s weeklong Thelonious Monk birthday celebration, visionary guitarist John Schott leads a six-hour version of his evening-length meditation on Monk’s immortal 1943 signature composition “’Round Midnight” with a cast of exploratory musicians.

A former student of iconic bassist Gary Peacock and trombonist Julian Priester, the Seattle-raised Schott studied classical composition while honing his jazz chops in college, moving to Berkeley in the late 1980s and forming the renowned jazz/funk quartet T.J. Kirk with fellow guitarists Charlie Hunter and Will Bernard along with drummer Scott Amendola. He has since released a string of acclaimed recordings as a leader and worked with John Zorn, Tom Waits, Rova Saxophone Quartet, and Peter Apfelbaum.

John Schott: 'Round Midnight Reconsidered'