Joe Sample
Joseph Leslie "Joe" Sample (February 1, 1939 – September 12, 2014) was an American pianist, keyboard player, and composer. He was one of the founding members of the Jazz Crusaders, the band which became simply the Crusaders in 1971, and remained a part of the group until its final album in 1991 (not including the 2003 reunion album Rural Renewal).
Beginning in the 1970s, he enjoyed a successful solo career and guested on many recordings by other performers and groups, including Miles Davis, George Benson, Jimmy Witherspoon, B. B. King, Eric Clapton, Steely Dan, and the Supremes. Sample incorporated jazz, gospel, blues, Latin, and classical forms into his music.
On September 12, 2014, Sample died in Houston, Texas, of mesothelioma at age 75.
Biography
Sample was born in Houston, Texas on February 1, 1939. Sample began to play the piano at age 5. He was a student of the organist and pianist Curtis Mayo.
In high school in the 1950s, Sample teamed up with friends saxophonist Wilton Felder and drummer "Stix" Hooper to form a group called the Swingsters. While studying piano at Texas Southern University, Sample met and added trombonist Wayne Henderson and several other players to the Swingsters, which became the Modern Jazz Sextet and then the Jazz Crusaders, in emulation of one of the leading progressive jazz bands of the day, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. Sample never took a degree from the university; instead, in 1960, he and the Jazz Crusaders made the move from Houston to Los Angeles.
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ALBUMS
- Children of the Sun released: 2012
- Live released: 2012
- No Regrets released: 2008
- Introducing Joe Sample released: 2006
- Feeling Good released: 2006
- Legends live at Montreux 1997 released: 2005
- Creole Love Call released: 2005
- Soul Shadows released: 2004
- Rainbow Seeker released: 2003
- The Pecan Tree released: 2002
- The Song Lives On released: 1999
- The Best of Joe Sample released: 1998
- Sample This released: 1997
- Old Places, Old Faces released: 1996
- Invitation released: 1995
- Collection released: 1991
- Ashes to Ashes released: 1990
- Spellbound released: 1989
- Roles released: 1987
- Oasis released: 1985
- The Hunter released: 1983
- Swing Street Cafe released: 1981
- Voices in the Rain released: 1981
- Carmel released: 1979
Born: 1939-02-01
Died: 2014-09-12
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by Joe Sample
One Day I'll Fly Away
by: Joe SampleI make it alone
When love is gone
Still you made your mark
Here in my heart
One day I'll fly away
Leave you love to yesterday
What more can your love do for me
When will love be through with me
I follow the night
Can't stand the light
When will I begin
My life again
One day I'll fly away
Leave you love to yesterday
What more can your love do for me
When will love be through with me
Why live life from dream to dream
Dread the day that dreaming ends
One day I'll fly away
Leave you love to yesterday
What more can your love do for me
When will love be through with me
Why live life from dream to dream
And dread the day that dreaming ends
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