On Tonys sixteenth birthday, his prayers were answered--he received an encouraging phone call from the late Jimmy Smith, who soon became his guru. This was the first of a regular series of calls where Smith taught Tony the secrets of the Hammond B-3. Four years later, when he was twenty, Jimmy Smith invited Tony to come play with him at his club in California--a peak lifetime experience for Tony Monaco. In 2005, thanks to the success of Fiery Blues, Tony traveled extensively, including the US, Australia, New Caledonia, and Canada. Returning home in September after a 10 day tour of Australia, Tony recorded his newest CD East to West on his newly formed Chicken Coup Records with Adam Nussbaum on drums and Bruce Forman on Guitar. With the release of East to West, earlier in 2005, Tony has experienced another burst of interest, playing the Java Jazz Festival in Jakarta, Indonesia, as well as gigs in Europe and US.
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