Zach Tate Interviews Joe Sample for The Islander Magazine
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- Zach Tate profiles Texas musicians for The Islander Magazine (Galveston) and Bay Area Houston Magazine (Houston). Artists are featured in writing and on video at www.ZachTate.com and www.TheIslanderMagazine.com Live performances follow each interview.
It hit me hard when I found out George Duke passed away then when I heard Joe Passed it hit me even harder. Loved them both.
Tell me about it. Wow
tim i agree george duke will be miss a long with joe sample and al jarreau
@@jazzaman147 yeah Al too and what’s sad is on Christmas morning back In 2016 I got tickets as a Christmas gift from my wife to see Al Jarreau then found out in the new year he passed away.
Thanks Zach for posting this great interview of my dear friend and Big bro, Mr. Joe Sample! I was introduced to Joe by our mutual friend named Chris C. in the mid 90’s!!!! (Chris and I were working at a Record Label). We used to hang out every week with Joe (whenever Joe wasn’t touring). Besides being a Musical genius...Joe was a consummate Comedian!!! He kept us laughing all the time!!!My Best memory of Joe...was the day he surprised me....with a HUGE BIRTHDAY SURPRISE!!!! He and Chris orchestrated this amazing SURPRISE!!! He had Sir Rod Stewart sing Happy Birthday for me at Le Dome restaurant in West Hollywood!!!! How can I forget such a treat!!!! Joe was such a generous man!!! We dearly miss him!!!! We Thank God for knowing and loving him like a Big Brother!!! Rest-In-Peace....
JM
FYI: Tupac’s “Dear Mama”...heavily relies on a Joe Sample & Crusaders Track sample called “In All my wildest Dreams!” (Circa 1978).
Joe Sample was the best and most emulated keyboard player of our times. Up an coming R&B/Jazz players loved his blend of heartfelt soul and traditional jazz flavors.
Cole
I knew there was a reason I like Joe Sample. He can grove.
Growing up in the 1970's I remember listening to the vinyls with my stepdad - and always smiling whenever the Jazz Crusaders was played. MY favourite album is still 'Rhadpsody in Blue'. Thank you all for the music! FDH LLB MA
i keep coming back to this video to feel closer to Joe. i really miss him. Thank you for interviewing him and posting this.
RIP Joe Sample great interview I marvel that I was able to see him in concert once he was truly a class person and a great piano player who I pattern my style after (not as well of course but I try) a great loss to the jazz scene
LOVE THIS MAN AND I MISS HIM SOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A link to the printed article about Joe Sample is below. His music, of course, is inspirational but he was also a man with a great deal of soulful insight... wisdom for the artist/musician, if you will. Listen to his music but whenever possible listen to him talk about music and how he connected his life experience to his art. There's a reason so many people related to his music - because he related to the human experience and let it flow through his art. Like he said in our interview "I'm a feeling man" - that statement has many meanings... If I learned anything talking with Joe Sample (to answer TV One Roland Martin's question more succinctly) it's to "dig deeper" when it comes to being an artist. www.lisha.com/joesampleprofile.html
Joe tells it true.he inspires me to this day and then some.
it is a great loss to me to see such a wonderful man and a great musician pass joe sample your with god playing for him but your music will live on forever thanks zach for the video
Amazing and very honest interview! I've never met Joe Sample, yet I feel very close to his way of thinking. He was a true master. Thanks!
I played a gig in Cleveland in the 1980s. After driving four hours to the gig, I went upstairs to get changed. In the corner, sitting on the floor, was a keyboard player playing an electric piano. I startled him when I entered the massive upstairs attic. Surprised, he looked up at me and said, "I've been practicing, I'm getting good." My band was opening for the Crusaders. The pianist was Joe Sample. He was a humble, confident and uniquely talented genius. There is no smooth jazz artist today with his harmonic sense. The only other musician I know of who could seamlessly weave a motif through disparate chord changes was Beethoven.
RIP Joseph Leslie Sample
Thank you for sharing this. It was wonderful. When Joe passed, the world not only lost a great jazz talent, but it also lost a wonderful person.
Rest in Peace, brotha Joe Sample
I'm so glad I was born during this era. Such great music. I love Freedom Sound.
Zach, you just won the internet gran prix for 2019 in my opinion. Somehow I was lucky enough to be inspired by JS and took up the Piano 22 years ago. I have a deep abiding reverence for the man, his spirit and his music. So this piece means a lot. You can see from comments here and otherwheres on UA-cam, that he brought a lot more than music to so many. Thanks
Thank you so much for expressing your appreciation for posting the interview. Most people don't say anything about what inspires them - especially to the relatively unknown people of the world like me. I'm personally inspired by many musicians and have tried to write (and video) about those people and the work they do. Despite the comments here I frequently feel like my work as a music journalist is not very useful. This interview exists because I was working for a print publication that supported music journalism. Sadly print is struggling - thus their budgets are cut and there are fewer journalists to write about music - or anything local for that matter. Joe sample was global of course but he did live in Houston where I live. Again I thank you for your comment and encouragement and hope you will support your local print publication wherever that may be and support your local independent artists. Not everyone gets to be as famous, and provided the same opportunities, as Joe Sample - he deserves all his praise - but so many people go relatively unheard, in all genres, and therefore can't make quite enough money to stay with it. In my opinion society loses when art isn't held in higher regard - not just famous global art - the art created in every small town that reflects and helps shape the culture of that place. Thanks again for your comment!
Thanks very much for posting this great interview! It's clear to anyone who has listen to Mr.Sample's music of the last 50+ years-he's as stated a groove man. On the debut album of the late Hank Crawford, there's a quote from him saying: "I'm more interested in moving the people than impressing them" or words to that effect. And Joe Sample very much so comes from that same special place-like Les McCann, George Benson(who manages to make musicians jaws drop on the technique tip while making the lay listener groove with the music), Ramsey Lewis, & the late Grover Washington, Jr. Joe Sample's music lives on!
Street Life.....in 1979 I was 21 and had the US import version on 12". Just incredible. The combination of Randy, Joe, Stix and Wilton was, and to this day still is, mesmerising.
Thanks for all the great ivory-tickling, Joe. "The Song Lives On". . .
Joe was a legend RIP King !!
Great interview Zach....Peace. Wayne. BI3D. R.I.P Joe Sample
Thanks Wayne.
Wow he’s so right about the technical musician and the rhythm musician. So clear and thoughtful. What a giant of American pianists and writers.
Thanks for Joe Sample Giving his voice about his excellent taste for good music. Wishing You All a Blessed Year. God Bless.
Watching this very informative interview right now on TV. On local access channel 99.
Legendary talent ... and human being. Nothing but love for this man.
It’s hard to live in a world where Joe Sample, Uncle Bill (Withers), Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston aren’t a part of the musical landscape.
That is so truth! We are losing all of our giants! I don’t see any replacements coming up. It is vital that we keep our remembrance of the greats - like Joe Sample. His work is just as good - if not better that Beethoven’s , or Mozart’s, etc.
I agree Malcolm Saxon. It’s a shame. I had no idea Bill Withers was your Uncle.
my dad was a songwriter/jazz pianist in the trad sense, art tatum, oscar petersen, george shearing were among his heroes. He was highly intelligent but a difficult man. Typical muso and must be said 'fish out of water' as he was from Manchester (northern england) but living in London who he called 'soft southerners' He had real talent (i know it now) but like many talented musicians never cracked it.I grew up with Jazz in my ears, either him playing/writing or his records. I rebelled against it-but when i got to 16/17, much to his chagrin, I got into Jazz funk & Soul which as you can imagine was awkward. I quickly built up a large collection of vinyl.
My dad only had time for Joe Sample so when i put his records on it I admit I did turn the volume up to see his ears prick up. It was probably the only time in our whole relationship we were on the same page, as father an son and intellectually. When the album ended we basically went back to being strangers.
Great comment .. I had an uncle who introduced me to jazz at a young age.. he was a war time RAF man and loved his big band swing music. Like you I returned the favour many introductions but Sample made him smile , be happy and tap out his outstanding rhythms. Miss them both. RIP x2 😢. PS both of us soft southerners ..😂
Love you Uncle rest in peace
So pleased to see this pop up on my feed, Zach. Absolute legend, as were all the Crusaders members. Saw The Crusaders at Hammersmith Odean & Royal Albert Hall 79/80 with Randy Crawford after Streetlife crossed over into the mainstream. Never seen him interviewed before so this is a true delight. RIP Joe and thank you for your music, which plays on almost a daily basis in my house /car because I have so much of your catalogue on playlists! Plus the original vinyls, of course!
love him...
This was wonderful.
Great interview, Zach!
A morte de Joe Sample foi uma grande perda para a música descanse em paz meu amigo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great interview, and Joe you was a great legend.
I am so glad you did this man. Thank You!
RIP Loved One
I first heard street life while on a liberty call off the ship in Japan… Just imagine a young boy from Alabama in the big city of Tokyo and this mechanical DJ was playing albums from US artist that hadn’t been released in the US yet… lol… This was about 1979-80… also had the same experience with MJ s Thriller in the Philippine islands…
Thanks...
Joe was one of my heroes. I have all of his 70's and 80's albums. It's a bit of a shame that he felt the need to diss Chick Corea like that. If you listen to Joe on the Fancy Dance album especially this tune - Joe Sample - Another Blues basically Joe came from that school of playing scalar playing which was and still is popular today. But all the same... RIP Joe you were awesome!!!!
Richie Garrison, initially that was my reaction too, even though he did that to ART TATUM too, which you interestingly forgot to mention as well.
And Art Tatum was the MASTER of them all when it came to technique and virtuosic displays. That said, after listening to JS again I realize
that he simply made his artistic choices and we have to respect him and all artists who make a stand for what they believe in. PERIOD!!!
R.I.P. Maestro Joe Sample.
I really get his comments vis a vis the feel, for me getting inside the night is what it is about. Santana has it Sample had it by the bucket load.
Thanks for sharing!
I always liked the way Joe played. It sounded "delicious" to me. No matter who else I have listened to since I first heard him play I would always appreciate how he sounded. Then, I started hearing inaccuracies in his playing and how simplistic his improvisations were but still, he sounded "delicious" to me. Then I heard him speak on a number of occasions and I realized how bitter and vain he was, "... (Chick) is a great jazz artist because the people who can control jazz today say that he is a great jazz artist". Maybe someone would say that it is his honesty, others may call it something else. But I can tell you that you will not find many musicians of statue who would call themselves a "legend" or say something like that about Chick. It's just my opinion, I could be wrong ( as Dennis Miller would say:)
GOAT.....My Mt Rushmore....
the hell... herbie hancock can groove like hell _with a drum machine!_
The Legend.
Exelent genius
A link to the printed article about Joe Sample is below. His music, of course, is inspirational but he was also a man with a great deal of soulful insight... wisdom for the artist/musician, if you will. Listen to his music but whenever possible listen to him talk about music and how he connected his life experience to his art. There's a reason so many people related to his music - because he related to the human experience and let it flow through his art. Like he said in the interview "I'm a feeling man" - that statement has many meanings... If I learned anything talking with Joe Sample (to answer Roland Martin's question more succinctly) it's to "dig deeper" when it comes to being an artist. www.lisha.com/joesampleprofile.html
Zach Tate Thank you.
I'm a little surprised that an artist of Joe Samples stature and credentials would attack another great musicians artistry, Art Tatum is loved because he is Art Tatum and no one can do Art Tatum like Art Tatum, same goes for Chick Corea . I agree that Chick's music and compositions sound like they were written out and required some or a lot of reading but that's his compositional style and it fits his improvisations because that's what he's hearing in his head. But make no mistake there's no doubt he has moved the music forward. I personally love music that grooves, but ain't nothing wrong with a little technical wizardry at the end of the day.
R.i.l
rip joe