Joe Sample, a soft-spoken keyboard player and composer whose blending of funk, blues, jazz, gospel and the Zydeco music of his childhood lent a distinctive sound to his well-known group, the ...

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 ...

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.

Thoughts of death prompted Joe Sample to bring his decades-dormant band, the Jazz Crusaders, back to life. By Andrew Dansby , ENTERTAINMENT WRITER Updated Sep 9, 2011 2:47 p.m.

Veteran jazz pianist Joe Sample, a founder and staple of the much-lauded innovative combo the (Jazz) Crusaders for four decades, takes a long overdue solo turn with a six-day gig at Gotham's Blue ...

Legendary pianist Joe Sample, who was known for pushing the boundaries of jazz music, passed away Friday night in his hometown of Houston at the age of 75, his family announced on Facebook.

Joe Sample died and was laid to rest nearly three years ago. The Houston jazz legend had survived a pair of heart attacks, one in 1994 and another in 2009. But mesothelioma took him in Sept. 2014 ...

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.