One of our favorite songs from the wonderful Randy Crawford and Joe Sample, as we celebrate Miss Crawford's 70th birthday with "Street Life." Besides working with Joe Sample and the Crusaders, she's had more than 20 records of her own and has recorded with Al Jarreau, George Benson, Quincy Jones to Rick Springfield and William "Bootsy" Collins. After suffering a stroke in 2018, Miss Crawford retired. We are thinking of her on her birthday. | JazzCorner

125K views · 6.8K reactions | Kind of how Joe Bonamassa mixes LZ’s "Dazed and Confused" into his epic rendition of ZZ Top’s "Just Got Paid” - What two Joe songs would you combine to create one epic mashup jam?  We'd like to experience "Evil Mama Shakedown"  | Joe Bonamassa | Facebook

5.8K views · 249 reactions | The Jazz Crusaders' Impact on the Los Angeles Jazz Scene in the Late 1950s | Joe Sample | Facebook

Joe Sample & The Crusaders "I Felt the Love" Live At Java Jazz Festival 2008 ....................................................................................................................... | Avant Garde Music

Remembering the great Joe Sample on his birthday (Feb 1, 1939 – Sep 12, 2014). Joe 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 Modern Jazz Sextet and then the Jazz Crusaders