Joe Sample
USA
Born: 01 February 1939
Years Active: 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000
Genres: Jazz
Styles: Cool, Fusion, Post-Bop, Hard Bop, Modal Music, Mainstream Jazz, Bop, New Orleans/Classic Jazz, Crossover Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Smooth Jazz, Soul Jazz, Soul Jazz/Groove, Jazz-Pop
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One of the many jazzmen who started out playing hard bop but went electric during the fusion era, Joe Sample was, in the late '50s, a founding member of the Jazz Crusaders along with trombonist Wayne Henderson, tenor saxman Wilton Felder, and drummer Stix Hooper. The Crusaders' debt to Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers wasn't hard to miss -- except that the L.A.-based unit had no trumpeter, and became known for its unique tenor/trombone front line. Sample, a hard-swinging player who could handle chordal and modal/scalar improvisation equally well, s...
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See also
- Lalah Hathaway (13)
- Wilton Felder (6)
- the Jazz Crusaders (0)
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- Herbie Hancock (61)
- Larry Carlton (45)
- Ahmad Jamal (36)
- George Duke (24)
- Brian Jackson (9)
- Ramsey Lewis (7)
- the Crusaders (7)
- Les Mccann (4)
Influenced by
- Frank Zappa (295)
- Miles Davis (281)
- Oscar Peterson (166)
- B.B. King (111)
- Bill Evans (88)
- Dave Brubeck (56)
- Horace Silver (11)
- Jelly Roll Morton (8)
- Ramsey Lewis (7)
- Art Tatum (5)
Followers
- Brian Culbertson (57)
- Ernie Watts (11)
- Soulive (8)
- Paulinho da Costa (5)
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