Hometown Bar-B-Que and Get It Right the First Time proudly present an afternoon with Greg Lewis’ Organ Monk Trio at the Industry City Bandshell on Saturday, October 29th!

The trio will be playing two sets featuring their singular take on the Thelonius Monk catalog Brooklyn’s Industry City Bandshell!

Tickets:

Tickets are $15 each for general admission seating is first come, first-served (there are about 60-70 seats available depending on the configuration

The venue is located in an open-air courtyard featuring a full concert sound stage. Fans can order Hometown BBQ and there is a bar serving beer, wine and cocktails. Additional food and drinks made at Industry City will be available for purchase. Concert is rain or shine.

How to get here:

Take the D, N, R lines to 36th street station in Brooklyn and walk west one block to Industry City. 2 stops from Manhattan.

More about Greg Lewis:

New York native, keyboardist Greg Lewis, a highly accomplished mainstay on the city’s jazz, blues and funk scenes, who has earned a solid reputation for his versatile work around town in a vast variety of settings, steps out front for the first time on his debut CD Organ Monk. Lewis’ sensitive and soulful keyboard playing has made him a favorite among some of the music’s finest vocalists – including blues queen Sweet Georgia Brown, jazz and soul songstress, Lezlie Harrison and ex-Brooklyn Funk Essentials singer / songwriter Stephanie McKay — and earned him a featured role on saxophonist Sam Newsome’s Groove Project recording 24/7. Now on Organ Monk the spotlight is finally shined on his enormous talents as the leader of his own all-star trio featuring multi-talented guitarist Ron Jackson and drummer extraordinaire Cindy Blackman.

Born into a musical family, Lewis’ introduction to jazz came from hearing Monk records from the collection his late father, pianist David Lewis, who was a dedicated fan of Thelonious. “It all started there,” the younger Lewis proclaims, also naming unsung master Elmo Hope as a major influence. Lewis started his own piano studies at the age of eleven and began playing professionally around New York as a teenager. He credits jazz legend Gil Coggins, who sent him as a sub one night to a gig where there was a Hammond B-3, for setting him on the path to becoming a bona fide organist. These days Lewis has so devoted himself to mastering the difficult instrument with such fervor that he considers himself to be an “organ monk.”