Joe Sample 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 Jazz Crusaders. The group made the move from Houston to Los Angeles . He began to use the electric piano , and the gro

WCU School of Music - Jazz ensemble concert

At this concert, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard is almost fifty years old and has a beautiful curriculum vitae. From his arrival in New York at the age of twenty, he was adopted by his peers and participated in many sessions that became historical with John Coltrane, Oliver Nelson, Eric Dolphy or Herbie Hancock ; and he will replace Lee Morgan in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. As a leader, for the Blue Note label, he has recorded several albums including the remarkable "Ready For Freddie" and, later,