Joe Sample

keyboards, vocals · 1939–2014 · Houston

Keyboardist from Houston, co-founder of the Jazz Crusaders in 1960 and then the Crusaders. He was one of the pioneers of the electric piano in jazz-funk.

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Styles

• Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk
• Soul jazz, boogaloo
• Hard bop

Landmark tracks

• Street Life (The Crusaders) (1979)

Sources

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