Mark Moultrup (center), who plays Independent Bar & Cafe in Tampa, Florida on Dec. 21, 2024. Credit: Photo via Independentseminoleheights/Facebook
It’s one thing to enjoy Christmas music. It gets even more indulgent when you make it jazz.

Pianist Mark Moultrup, who blew in from Detroit and Chicago but now makes St. Pete his home, headlines Indie’s third Saturday jazz series with a quartet—featuring Austin Vickery on sax, Alejandro Arenas on bass, plus drummer Stephen Bucholtz—that will turn the air frosty for this no-cover al fresco gig.

There’s no cover to see Mark Moultrup Quartet play Independent Bar & Cafe in Tampa on Saturday, Dec. 21.

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This article appears in Dec 19-25, 2024.

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...