"Like the cosmopolitan city that is her home, Monaco draws from the ethnic richness that define it.Monaco has studied with artists including Kenny Burrell, Kenny Barron, Rufus Reid and Harold Mabern, and her roots in mainstream/bebop are clear; but she manages to infuse a slight harmonic edge to her music that distinguishes it from the plethora of guitarists out there trying to mine the same riches" . . . . . . .