Venue

Smitty’s Café and Bar

3333 Raleigh

Houston, TX

713-741-9464

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The Monday Nite Texas Jazz Jam

Date/Time:Every week Monday, 8:00pm

Price: Free

Contact Info: 713-901-4863 | Event Website

Getting Things Straight

By Brett Koshkin

Getting Things Straight

Watching Carol Sanders and the Straight No Chaser Jazz Ensemble play is like watching an all-star game. For starters, you have Carol Sanders. Raised in the church and on a healthy dose of the greatest of jazz singers like Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday, helped to shape this full bodied vocalist’s style. She’s adapted the learnings she found in the house of worship to fill out the singing style found within bebop, giving it her own unique sound. Add to that the experience of one Nelson Mills III on trumpet and Robert Sanders on keys and things really start to get interesting. Mills and Sanders both played in what is probably the greatest soul band to come out of Houston, the TSU Toronadoes. On top of all that, the jazz world’s greatest sit in as special guests every week.

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