2.6K views · 65 reactions | Legendary Jazz Musicians, Including Miles Davis and John Coltrane, Performed at Iconic Los Angeles Club, The It Club, Frequented by Jazz Crusaders | Joe Sample | Facebook

Joe Sample & The Crusaders "I Felt the Love" Live At Java Jazz Festival 2008 ....................................................................................................................... | Avant Garde Music

6.5K views · 179 reactions | The All-Star Tribute to Joe Sample show is nearly sold out downtown Detroit. Don't miss out. Get your southeast Texas groove on tonight. | Joe Sample | Facebook

727K views · 36K reactions | Joe Sample could play the funkiest of...

Remembering the great Joe Sample on his birthday (Feb 1, 1939 – Sep 12, 2014). Joe could play the funkiest of tunes to the most sublime piano. 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