Horace Silver

Pianist and composer Joe Sample, a founding member of the genre-crossing Jazz Crusaders who helped pioneer the electronic jazz-funk fusion style, has died.

He was a pioneer of a rhythmic jazz style known as 'hard bop'

Pianist and composer Joe Sample, a founding member of the genre-crossing Jazz Crusaders who helped pioneer the electronic jazz-funk fusion style, has died.

He was a pioneer of a rhythmic jazz style known as 'hard bop'