The 2020 Houston Jazz Festival at Miller Outdoor Theater will be streaming live on Facebook from the historic stage. This year’s Jazz Fest opening performance will be The Houston Jazz Collective’s own Shelley Carrol, who has assembled a supergroup of contemporary jazz greats including Grammy winner and funk master Bobby Sparks II on keys, Mark Simmons on drums, and Jazz bassist extraordinaire Jay McK.
Not since the inception of Texas’ most seminal jazz group, the (Jazz) Crusaders has there been a homegrown band as unique as Carrol-Simmons-Sparks. Though their journey is quite different from the former, CSS have landed in the place to carry the torch of Lone Star greatness.
The 2020 Houston Jazz Festival at Miller Outdoor Theater will be streaming live on Facebook from the historic stage. This year’s Jazz Fest opening performance will be The Houston Jazz Collective’s own Shelley Carrol, who has assembled a supergroup of contemporary jazz greats including Grammy winner and funk master Bobby Sparks II on keys, Mark Simmons on drums, and Jazz bassist extraordinaire Jay McK.
Not since the inception of Texas’ most seminal jazz group, the (Jazz) Crusaders has there been a homegrown band as unique as Carrol-Simmons-Sparks. Though their journey is quite different from the former, CSS have landed in the place to carry the torch of Lone Star greatness.
The 2020 Houston Jazz Festival at Miller Outdoor Theater will be streaming live on Facebook from the historic stage. This year’s Jazz Fest opening performance will be The Houston Jazz Collective’s own Shelley Carrol, who has assembled a supergroup of contemporary jazz greats including Grammy winner and funk master Bobby Sparks II on keys, Mark Simmons on drums, and Jazz bassist extraordinaire Jay McK.
Not since the inception of Texas’ most seminal jazz group, the (Jazz) Crusaders has there been a homegrown band as unique as Carrol-Simmons-Sparks. Though their journey is quite different from the former, CSS have landed in the place to carry the torch of Lone Star greatness.