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 ...

Some of the key players in Joe Sample’s new release, Soul Shadows (Verve), are construction workers. The veteran keyboardist built a house in Houston last year, and one of the aims was to create a ...

The Pecan Tree; Hot and Humid; No One But Myself to Blame; X Marks the Spot; Fool's Gold; Spanish Moss; In a Heartbeat; El Dorado; With These Hands; The Texas Two Step; Memories. Howard Hewett: vocals ...

Joe Sample, piano and Fender Rhodes; Lalah Hathaway, vocals; Kirk Whalum, sax; David Delhomme, synthesizers; Michael Thompson, electric guitar; Jay Anderson, bass ...

Throughout his long keyboard career, both as a founding member of the Jazz Crusaders and as a solo artist, Joe Sample believed that “if you played the piano in a stride or ragtime or boogie-woogie ...

Nesbert “Stix” Hooper returns home this week for the first time in maybe 20 years. He thinks the last time he was here was for a class reunion at Phillis Wheatley High School. The legendary drummer ...

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