Joe Sample - a pianist of enormous talents whose long, winding career spanned jazz, R&B, funk, pop, rock, country and zydeco - died Friday night. He was 75. Sample was a founding member of the Jazz ...

Legendary pianist Joe Sample, who was known for pushing the boundaries of jazz music, passed away Friday night in his hometown of Houston at the age of 75, his family announced on Facebook. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Pianist and composer Joe Sample, a founding member of the genre-crossing Jazz Crusaders and a pioneer of the electronic jazz-funk fusion style, died of complications due to lung cancer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sample was a founder of the band the Jazz Crusaders and reportedly played with musicians from Miles Davis and B.B. King to Steely Dan and the Supremes. NPR's Arun Rath has this remembrance. Finally, ...

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 ...

This July 2, 2006, file photo shows jazz pianist Joe Sample performing during the 40th Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Sample, a founding member of the genre-crossing Jazz Crusaders who helped ...

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 ...

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 ...