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 ...

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 ...

Note: this Christmas, Rocks Off is remembering some prominent members of Houston’s music community we lost this year. Joe Sample, the Houston native whose masterful keyboard playing made him a leading ...

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 ...