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Mayor Sylvester Turner has announced the inaugural Jazz on the Hill concert.

He will host the event, 6 p.m. Oct. 27 at Miller Outdoor Theatre in Hermann Park. The lineup features saxophonist Kirk Whalum and Poncho Sanchez and His Latin Jazz Band. Opening the show will be the Houston High School All Stars featuring Derrick Hodge, presented by the Monterey Jazz Festival and Texas Southern University.

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Turner hopes to make this an annual event. He says he created Jazz on the Hill to promote music education and highlight national and local jazz artists.

Whalum, a Grammy winner who has played with many artists, performs the sax solo on Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You.”

Admission is free. Tickets for the venue’s covered seating will be available at the Miller Outdoor Theatre box office the day of the performance from 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. There is a limit of four per person. If tickets remain after 1 p.m. the box office will reopen one hour before the show to distribute the remaining tickets. The hill is open seating

Joey Guerra is the music critic for the Houston Chronicle. Follow him on Twitter. Get expert picks for concerts, kid stuff, fine arts, movies and more by subscribing to the Preview entertainment newsletter.