Jim Sharples
Jim
plays bass for the Jazz Monsters and is a graduate of the University of North
Texas. Jim was a very successful band director at Carroll and Richland High
School and now works for Express Industries doing fund raising. Jim has been a
very active professional musician for over forty years playing both piano and
bass. Jim leads his own small jazz ensemble and plays with many other groups
as well. Jim can be heard on the “Praise 95” CD recorded by the First
United Methodist Church of Bedford where he plays regularly. He plays piano in
the Metroplex Praise Orchestra and has worked with the Claude Gordon and the
Mel Fitch Orchestras.