Wow! I don't think there is a better description for this new recording from Joe Sample. I truly believe that this is the best jazz CD that I have heard in the past year. If you're a new listener to ...

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Randy Crawford and Joe Sample: Live album review by Jeff Winbush, published on October 23, 2012. Find thousands jazz reviews at All About Jazz!

Sample began his career as a member of music group Jazz Crusaders (which later became The Crusaders), and he remained with the group until its 1991 album. He has also released numerous solo albums ...

Joe Sample brought the perfect touch to any musical setting, which – in his case – meant virtually every music setting. His death Friday from lung cancer, at the age of 75, robs the mus… ...

Legendary jazz pianist Joe Sample died on Friday morning in Houston. He was 75. Sample, who revolutionized jazz fusion in the ’60s and ’70s, was also a keyboardist and composer for more than ...

Legendary jazz pianist Joe Sample has died. He was 75. The Texas-born musician’s family posted the news on his Facebook page last night. “At 9:50pm (Houston, TX time), September 12, 2014, Joe ...

A Houston native, Sample teamed with high school friends, saxophonist-bassist Wilton Felder and drummer Stix Hooper, to form a band as teenagers in the mid-’50s.

Sample’s opening set featured selections from new Verve CD “Soul Shadows,” a collection of solo interpretations in tribute to big-band frontman, jazz pioneer and World War I vet James Reese ...

Years ago, Joe Sample's group the Crusaders joined singer Randy Crawford to record the hit single "Street Life." Now, they're back together — and they say that they've aged like fine wine. Their ...

Great jazz man Joe Sample reveals the theme of his next album will be “impressions of the emotions of slavery and freedom and will be called Children of the Sun.” Sample, whose Did You … ...