#joe sample

[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 😊.

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

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

[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、平和や団結力と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

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[realjaysumlin]

The late great Joe Sample and The Crusaders.

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Gene Page - Fantasy Woman (Atlantic)

wrt. arr. & prod. Gene Page, Flutes, 1976

[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

[redcarpetview]

Koryn Hawthorne Releases New Single "Cry"

    On June 2, two-time GRAMMY® nominated, Billboard Music and NAACP Image Award winning, inspirational artist, Koryn Hawthorne, released her brand new single, “Cry,” lifted from her forthcoming third album. The triple-threat entertainer’s new single, “Cry” is available to stream and purchase wherever music is sold and streamed now.

 Produced by J White Did It, “Cry” demonstrates Hawthorne’s ability to transcend across all genres, showcasing her signature vocals and encouraging lyrics over the popular music sample, “In All My Wildest Dreams” by the late jazz legend Joe Sample. Hawthorne gracefully reminds all, that it’s okay to show emotions and be vulnerable amid any life storm. 

 Having carved a lane of her own, Hawthorne provides a refreshing blend of gospel, pop, hip-hop and R&B. Hawthorne is best known for being a finalist in season 8 of NBC's reality TV singing competition The Voice, placing fourth place as a member on Pharrell Williams' team. 

 After finishing in 4th place on The Voice, Hawthorne got signed to RCA Inspiration. Since placing 4th she has been seen as a guest star on WE tv’s Mary Mary, Bounce’s Saints & Sinners and OWN’s “Greenleaf.” Koryn went on to shatter Billboard's Hot Gospel Songs Chart in 2018 claiming the title of longest reign by a female artist, with her infectious #1 smash hit “Won't He Do It” - garnering RIAA-Certified Gold® recognition. Hawthorne recently starred in the Peacock original film, PRAISE THIS, portraying mean-girl, “Fallon.”

       Follow Koryn Hawthorne on social media using the handle @KorynHawthorne.

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