Joe Sample

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Joe Sample

Joseph Leslie "Joe" Sample (* 1. February 1939 in Houston , Texas ; † 12. September 2014 ) was an American jazz - musicians , producer , jazz composer , pianist and founding member of fusion jazz -Formation The Crusaders .

Live and act

Joe Sample played with Wilton Felder , Wayne Henderson and Stix Hooper as Nite Hawks in Texas clubs since college . Together they went to the west coast of the USA in the early 1960s and performed in rhythm and blues clubs in Los Angeles and Las Vegas . They released their first albums as The Jazz Crusaders. However, success was a long time coming. It was only when they were renamed The Crusaders in the early 1970s that they achieved their breakthrough without the addition of jazz , but still attached to jazz and with the addition of soul and blues .

Band leader Joe Sample also composed the band's biggest hit. The funky Street Life became a nightclub hit in 1979 (with singer Randy Crawford and guitarist Barry Finnerty ) . Since the 1980s, Joe Sample has mainly worked as a jazz pianist on various projects as a solo artist. The band Crusaders is still around, however. Her last studio album was made in 2003. In Germany, Sample performed together with Till Brönner . With the Swede Nils Landgren he recorded the CD Creole Love Call , which reached first place in the jazz charts in Germany and was awarded the German Jazz Award . In 2006 he released the album Feelin 'Good with Randy Crawford . He has also performed with the singer at various jazz festivals, most recently in 2013 at the Vienna Jazz Festival and at the Carinthian Finkenstein castle ruins . He toured Europe frequently with his Creole Joe Zydeco Band.

Sample also recorded with Donald Byrd , Miles Davis , Ramsey Lewis , Stanley Turrentine , Les McCann , Dennis Rowland and Ella Fitzgerald . He also worked as a studio musician; He can be heard on Living the Blues by Canned Heat and with Diana Ross , Ray Charles and Joni Mitchell , among others . He also plays the piano on Riding with the King , the joint album by Eric Clapton and BB King .

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE US US
1978 Rainbow Seeker - US62 (25 weeks)
US
1979 Carmel - US56 (26 weeks)
US
1981 Voices in the Rain - US65 (20 weeks)
US
1983 The Hunter - US125 (14 weeks)
US
1989 Spellbound - US129 (14 weeks)
US
1993 Invitation - US194 (1 week)
US
1999 The Song Lives On - US196 (1 week)
US
2006 Feeling good DE44
platinum
platinum

(8 weeks)DE 		-
2013 Teamwork DE70 (1 week)
DE 		-
2015 Christmas with Friends - US107 (4 weeks)
US
with India.Arie

More albums

Compilations

  • 1991 Collection
  • 1998: The Best of Joe Sample
  • 2006: Introducing Joe Sample
  • 2007: 1999-2006 Best of Best

Singles

  • 1978: Melodies of Love
  • 1979: Carmel
  • 1980: There Are Many Stops Along the Way
  • 1981: Burnin 'Up the Carnival
  • 1983: The Hunter
  • 1985: The Survivor
  • 1987: Woman You're Drivin 'Me Mad
  • 1989: U Turn
  • 1989: Leading Me Back to You
  • 1989: Seven Years of Good Luck
  • 1989: Spellbound
  • 1990: The Road Less Traveled
  • 1999: Fever (Joe Sample feat.Lalah Hathaway)
  • 2000: The Ghetto / El Barrio ( George Benson feat. Joe Sample)
  • 2006: Rio de Janeiro Blue (with Randy Crawford)

Video albums

Lexigraphic entries

swell

  1. ↑ Obituary
  2. ↑ Jazz musician Joe Sample is dead , obituary in Der Standard of September 14, 2014, accessed October 22, 2014
  3. ↑ Chart sources: DE DE2 US
  4. ^ The Billboard Albums by Joel Whitburn , 6th Edition, Record Research 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
  5. ↑ a b gold / platinum database DE

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personal data
SURNAME Sample, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sample, Joseph Leslie (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American keyboardist and jazz composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Houston , USA
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 2014
Place of death Houston