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 ...

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 ...

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, ...