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Joseph Leslie Sample (February 1, 1939 [1] – September 12, 2014) [2] was an American jazz keyboardist and composer. He was one of the founding members of The Jazz Crusaders in 1960, after which its name was shortened to "The Crusaders" in 1971.
The Crusaders at Knebworth Park, UK, Capital Radio Jazz Festival, 1982. High school friends Joe Sample (piano), Wilton Felder [2] (tenor saxophone) and Nesbert "Stix" Hooper (drums) formed their first band together, the Swingsters, in Houston, Texas in 1954.
In 1998, Lalah Hathaway and Joe Sample began working on their collaborative album. Hathaway sang most of the lead vocals on such songs as lead single "When Your Life Was Low" and a cover of The Crusaders' hit "Street Life," while Sample supplied the instruments like piano. The second single was the covered song "Fever".
Sample first met Crawford when he played on her debut album Everything Must Change in 1976. [4] After having good reviews about her song, but not being commercially successful, Crawford was then asked by Sample to sing the vocals for the song. As a result of this, the Crusaders produced her fourth album Now We May Begin, which became very ...
[1] [2] Felder, Wayne Henderson, Joe Sample, and Stix Hooper founded their group while in high school in Houston. The Jazz Crusaders evolved from a straight-ahead jazz combo into a pioneering jazz-rock fusion group, with a definite soul music influence. Felder worked with the original group for over thirty years, and continued to work in its ...
Pam Lambert of the Wall Street Journal wrote that the Crusaders on sound fresher than most 'new' artists" and "the album features the Crusaders' typically eclectic mixture of styles." [ 3 ] Liam Lacey of the Globe and Mail remarked "One of the oldest groups in recorded history, The Crusaders have survived since the 1950s by careful adaptations ...
Street Life is a studio album by the American jazz band the Crusaders. It was a top 20 album on three Billboard charts and represents the peak of the band's commercial popularity. The title track , featuring singer Randy Crawford , was a Top 40 pop single (No. 36) and became the group's most successful entry on the soul chart (No. 17). [ 1 ]
The Crusaders chronology; Scratch (1974) Southern Comfort (1974) Chain Reaction (1975) ... Joe Sample - Keyboards; Stix Hooper - Drums; Larry Carlton - Guitar; Charts