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Shocking news…Joe Sample has passed. He was a big influence on my piano comping and soloing style. I learned to adapt a solo he did on The Crusaders Images. During a one to one Jazz Improv exam, I played it for my instructor for that semester: Dr. William Butler Fielder (friend and contemporary of Freddie Hubbard and of Dr. Donald Byrd). After I finished playing, he gave an intense chuckle and said, Boy, yall crazy! Then he disappeared into the corridor. I also memorized the first quarter of Carmel—my favorite JS album. My last improv prof (Js Pellaton, director of the Jazz-Rock Percussion Ensemble) told me that if I arranged it, he have JRPE perform it. Perhaps my favorite song is All Gods Children
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 13:55:25 +0000

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