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 ...

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 ...

HOUSTON - 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 ...

HOUSTON (KHOU) -- At KTSU Radio at Texas Southern University in Third Ward where Joe Sample attended, his pictures are on the wall and today his music is exclusively on the air. "He was not only a ...

Joe Sample, a composer and keyboard player who connected the world of jazz to many other musical traditions, has died at age 75. He died in his hometown of Houston. Sample was a founder of the band ...

The facts were sketchy, and that seemed utterly appropriate to Donald Byrd. Last week, a lesser-known jazz-oriented pianist named Alex Bugnon posted on his Facebook page an announcement that Byrd had ...

Sample is 72, his age not entirely given away by his appearance: His hair and a neatly trimmed goatee have gone white, but his face is unlined, and the pianist's fingers still move with electricity ...

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com/AP) — Pianist and composer Joe Sample, a founding member of the genre-crossing Jazz Crusaders who helped pioneer the electronic jazz-funk ...

This July 2, 2006, file photo shows jazz pianist Joe Sample performing during the special event “Hommage to Nesuhi Ertegun” of the 40th Montreux Jazz Festival at the Stravinski hall in Montreux, ...

HOUSTON (AP) — 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 ...

Influential keyboardist Joe Sample, who helped push the boundaries of jazz and funk as a member of the Jazz Crusaders, died Friday in Houston. He was 75. Sample’s career with the Jazz Crusaders began ...