We remember jazz pianist and composer Joe Sample. The longtime Houstonian died Friday at the age of 75. Sample became well known in the 1960s as the pianist for the Jazz Crusaders, who eventually ...

Pianist and composer Joe Sample (1939-2014) began studying his instrument at age 5 and was exposed to a variety of musical traditions as a child. While still in high school in the late 1950s, he ...

One of the featured attractions at this year’s Berks Jazz Festival (its 25th anniversary show) will be a special performance on Saturday, April 18, 2015, at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Reading, PA called ...

Toward the end of his remarkable career, the late pianist Joe Sample (he died on September 12, 2014) traveled to Hamburg, Germany, to record Children of the Sun, a suite of his own music, with the ...

Joe Sample died and was laid to rest nearly three years ago. The Houston jazz legend had survived a pair of heart attacks, one in 1994 and another in 2009. But mesothelioma took him in Sept. 2014 at ...

Since legendary keyboardist Joe Sample returned home to Houston eight years ago, he has reconnected with his musical past. Sample reunited the Jazz Crusaders for a show in 2011, after the band had ...

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 music world of one ...

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 five ...

Pianist and composer Joe Sample, a founding member of the genre-crossing Jazz Crusaders who helped pioneer the electronic jazz-funk fusion style, has died. He was 75. Sample died of complications due ...

With the wild, platinum-selling commercial success of Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark in 1974, Joe Sample’s studio-session career went into warp drive. Throughout the remainder of the decade, he would ...

If 1975 was a whirlwind year for Joe Sample, the Crusader who passed away last Friday, 1976 was a full-blown hurricane. The newer, funkier Crusaders were increasingly popular, so much so that United ...

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