| LC control no. | nr 90021621 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Sample, Joe |
| Variant(s) | Sample, Joseph Leslie |
| Located | United States |
| Birth date | 1939-02-01 |
| Death date | 2014-09-12 |
| Place of birth | Houston (Tex.) |
| Place of death | Houston (Tex.) |
| Field of activity | Jazz |
| Affiliation | Texas Southern University Crusaders (Musical group) |
| Profession or occupation | Pianists Jazz musicians |
| Found in | Turrentine, S. Everybody come on out [SR] p1976: container (Joe Sample, electric piano) New Grove dict. of jazz (Sample, Joe (Joseph Leslie); b. Feb. 1, 1939, Houston; pianist) New York times (online), viewed Sept. 15, 2014 (in obituary published Sept. 14: Joe Sample; b. Joseph Leslie Sample, Feb. 1, 1939, Houston; d. there Friday [Sept. 12, 2014], aged 75; became a jazz star in the 1960s as the pianist with the Jazz Crusaders and an even bigger star a decade later when he began playing electric keyboards and the group simplified its name to the Crusaders) African American National Biography, accessed April 20, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Sample, Joe; jazz musician, pianist; born 01 February 1939 in Houston, Texas, United States; studied piano at Texas Southern University; formed the Swingsters, renamed the Modern Jazz Sextet, finally the Jazz Crusaders and moved to Los Angeles (1960); signed with Pacific Jazz label; recorded his first set as a leader, Fancy Date album (1969); changed the group's name to Crusaders (1971-1987); freelanced in the 1970s and 1980s as a studio musician and a solo artist; led twenty albums (1978-2012); unaccompanied piano solos, Soul Shadows, was released (2004)) |
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