BK Jackson, who plays David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa, Florida on Aug. 10, 2024. Credit: Photo via bkjacksonsax/Facebook

Smooth jazz gets Water Street Tampa’s new live music series out of the gate, thanks to BK Jackson, who was a wavemaking Blake High School alum way before Doechii (he did a four-year stint in Prince’s New Power Generation Hornz band, people).

The 33-year-old smooth jazz composer and saxophonist is joined by Root Mod frontwoman Bianca Fitzpatrick for this gig happening at at the district’s “Via Corazon” plaza located between the Cora building and the East Cumberland garage.

Tickets for The Space Between at Water Street Tampa on Friday, Feb. 28 are still available and start at $35.

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This article appears in Feb 20-26, 2025.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...