Jazz Houston presents The Joe Sample Celebration

Jazz Houston, in partnership with KTSU 90.9 FM, presents the Joe Sample Celebration to close out its 2023-24 season. The concert features the Jazz Houston Orchestra with Music Director Vincent Gardner and guest artist Stix Hooper in its long-awaited return to Houston.

Hooper and Joe Sample founded the band The Crusaders in Houston before moving to the West Coast and achieving worldwide fame. The concert features new and existing arrangements of compositions made famous by the Crusaders, songs written by Sample and Hooper, as well as the first performance of the final song they wrote together.