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Legendary Jazz pianist and composer, Joe Sample dead at 75

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Pianist and composer Joe Sample has died. He was 75.

Sample died of complications due to lung cancer Friday evening at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, his manager, Patrick Rains, told the Associated Press on Saturday.

Rains said Sample’s family was at his bedside.

Sample was a founding member of the genre-crossing Jazz Crusaders who helped pioneer the electronic jazz-funk fusion style.