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On this episode of Encore Houston, the Houston Jazz Collective hosts Bu’s Jazz Messengers and Carrol-Simmons-Sparks for the 2020 Houston Jazz Festival, recorded live at Miller Outdoor Theater. The festival was a tribute to legendary jazz drummer Art Blakey!
Music in this episode:
- LARRY YOUNG: Backup
- MILES DAVIS: Four
- SHELLEY CARROL: Many Moods of Don
- RODGERS and HART: Falling in Love with Love
- WAYNE SHORTER: Hammerhead
- JJ JOHNSON: Lament
- FREDDIE HUBBARD: Core
- BOBBY TIMMONS: Moanin’
- Featured musicians
- Shelley Carrol, saxophone
- Mark Simmons, drums
- Bobby Sparks II, keyboard
- Jay McK, bass
- Andre Hayward, trombone
- Horace Grigsby, vocals
- Frank Lacy, trombone
- Bobby Watson, saxophone
- Valery Ponomarev, trumpet
- Curtis Lundy, bass
- Michael Palma, piano
- Jerome Gillespie, drums
- Performance date: 10/25/2020
- Originally aired: 12/19/2020
New episodes of Encore Houston air Saturdays at 10 PM, with a repeat broadcast Sundays at 4 PM, all on Houston Public Media Classical.
