#joe sample

[vernonrjones]

busy falling in love with Joe Sample's music because I heard a song off of Rainbow Seeker on KMHD a month-ish ago - Fly With Wings of Love. This song keeps getting stuck in my head.

[realjaysumlin]

When Your Life Was Low

I miss Mr. Joe Sample and his wonderful piano playing wizards are the same as Mr. George Duke. The vocal of MS. Lalah Hathaway made this song a classic. Enjoy 😊.

[plus-low-overthrow]

Randy Crawford - Same Old Story (Same Old Song) (Warner Bros.)

prod. Wilton felder, Stix Hooper & Joe Sample, 1980.

[loveboatinsanity]

[moment-japan]

Al Jarreau/Mas que nada

4月30日は国際ジャズ・デー。

ジャズをきっかけに世界の文化に対する理解を深め、発展途上国の子どもたちにジャズを伝え、平和や団結力��いった教育につなげることを目的に2011年、ユネスコ総会で制定されました。

動画はジャズボーカリストのアル・ジャロウによるマシュケナダ。

ミュージシャンはぱっと見ただけでも、ピアノにジョー・サンプル、ベースはマーカス・ミラー、パーカッションはパウリーニョ・ダ・コスタ、ドラムスはスティーブ・ガットと物凄い面子。

この日は、全世界195のユネスコ加盟国と共に米国にある1986年設立のジャス専門教育機関であるセロニアス モンク インスティテュート オブ ジャズ（現：ハービー ハンコック インスティテュート オブ ジャズ）とユネスコが中心となって世界中でイベントが行われてます。

[projazznet]

Joe Sample – Rainbow Seeker

A sublime solo set from the great Joe Sample – a set recorded right at a time when his work with The Crusaders was breaking very big, and Joe was becoming one of the hottest fusion keyboardists of the 70s! This set gives Sample a nicely different focus than The Crusaders – more keyboards in the lead, with a great mix of acoustic piano and electric modes – over these really well-crafted arrangements that feature key Crusaders members, but also allow for great work from David D Walker on guitar, Fred Jackson on tenor, and some other great west coast studio talents too. The vibe is great – almost a Steely Dan jazz album, and we mean that in the best way possible – on titles that include “Rainbow Seeker”, “Fly With The Wings Of Love”, “In All My Wildest Dreams”, and the classic “There Are Many Stops Along The Way”.

[mitjalovse]

Some session musicians should have done more on their own thanks to the immense prowess they kept showing many times. Well, Carol Kaye, one of the best session bassists, sadly didn't do much on solowise, though we have to understand – she worked quite a lot. Still, one wishes she would've done more of her jazz trips, where she basically presented us with a major reason for her success. You see, she appears to be a jazzist at heart and this gave her a great playing field for her job. This also tells me one thing I must mention in our discussion here – the fact that session musicians are disappearing is terrible. They are probably another source of our listening enjoyment of the old pop chestnuts, their presence remains severely missed.

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Joe Sample

[mychameleondays]

Joni Mitchell: Cour And Spark

GFS

Asylum SYLA 8756/OC 064 95090

Released: April 1974

[krispyweiss]

Rewind: Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975)

If cocaine made a sound, it might be The Hissing of Summer Lawns.

Released in 1975 as Joni Mitchell was settling into her jazz phase after the previous year’s Court and Spark, Summer Lawns is druggy. But it’s never drugged-out.

There’s a wired tiredness to the music - vaguely psychedelic, mostly jazz with glimmers of folk and rock. All of this makes The Hissing of Summer Lawns essential and essentially impossible to hear too many times.

Set in snow-covered California, the album makes references both explicit - he tilts their tired faces gently to the spoon, in “Edith and the Kingpin” - and implicit - drooling for a taste of something smuggled in, on “The Jungle Line” - delivered in the percussion-and-vocal format Mitchell’d revisit on “Dreamland” from Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter.

This is Mitchell at her zenith, backed by a host of top-tier players and singers in keyboardist Joe Sample; drummer John Guerin; guitarists Larry Carlton, Robben Ford and Jeff Baxter; horn blowers Chuck Findley and Bud Shank; and background vocalists David Crosby, Graham Nash and James Taylor; among others.

The Hissing of Summer Lawns starts happily enough with the celebration of youth that is “In France They Kiss on Main Street” - looking for a party, looking to raise Jesus up from the dead, Mitchell sings. But soon enough, she’s singing of powerlessness and dreams deferred on the languid, sinewy and arresting “Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow.”

Truth goes up in vapors/the steeples lean/winds of change patriarchs/snug in your Bible Belt dreams/god goes up the chimney/like childhood Santa Claus/the good slaves love the good book/a rebel loves a cause, she sings, sounding exhausted over six verses and no chorus.

Everybody talks about Blue - and with good reason - but The Hissing of Summer Lawns is the Joni Mitchell LP Sound Bites would take to the proverbial desert island.

Grade card: Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns (1975) - A

4/2/23

[realjaysumlin]

The late great Joe Sample and The Crusaders.

[kickmag]

Throwback: J.Dilla-Sunbeams

J.Dilla's "Sunbeams" is from The 1996 What Up Doe Sessions.  The title comes from how many Detroiters greet each other by saying "What Up Doe?" The song was built with Joe Sample's "Black Is The Color" and Grady Tate's "Be Black Baby." "Sunbeams" was another instance of Dilla's genius understanding of rhythm. He took the samples from each song and turned them into an endless moody meditation helmed by a delicate snare drum. The sound of early morning or late at night depending on the listener is one of Dilla's most famous instrumentals. The bootlegged collection of beats was recorded in 1996, the same time Dilla's productions were being heard on De La Soul's Stakes Is High and A Tribe Called Quest's Beats, Rhymes and Life.  The Detroit Pistons chose to honor J. Dilla in 2024 which would have been his 50th year of life with a new line of merchandise that will debut on March 13th. 

[leonardcohenofficial]

spotify add this joe sample album when

[cincybengals09]

BENGALS RECAPPED:

What a melancholy feeling.

We have reached the end of the road for the Bengals' 2024 season. It is a season that has had many highs and many lows. Joe finishes with the most passing yards, Trey finishes with most sacks (the first time a Bengal has accomplished this), Ja'Marr wins the triple crown and for the fourth year in a row the Bengals finish with a winning record. There are moments in games we capitalised on and moments we should've. These moments where we didn't are accountable for the close losses that made up our arguably underwhelming season, but yet we were so close, and that is what hurts. There is no point dwelling on these moments as there is nothing we can do to change the outcome; we could only try to rectify it in the late season. Hopefully, the Bengals, as a team and organisation, can learn and adapt from these mistakes during the off-season.

Although we didn't reach the playoffs, there is still much to luck forward to. In a few weeks, we will see some of our players at the Pro-Bowl in Orlando, where I'm sure we'll see the strong connection between Burrow and Ja'Marr utilised in an attempt to beat the NFC. The off-season will definitely be an interesting time for the team as well. The organisation will need/want to sign Hendrickson and Chase to a new contract, and then they will have to decide whether to keep Tee Higgins and the implications this may have on the Bengals' squad and cap space.

For the 2025 season, I hope we can improve the defence and once again, it looks like the O-line isn't sufficient and whether to improve both or either of these aspects it may require changes in coaching and personalle. I think it will be interesting to see what the Bengals' front office's priorities will be in the draft and off-season. Hopefully, we can emerge next season as a real contender in the AFC and continue the offensive prowess.

See you soon 👋

Who dey! 🖤🧡