[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15219]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    HONORING JAZZ LEGEND JOE SAMPLE

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor and mourn a great 
American in my district. His name is Joe Sample. He made people happy 
by the wonderful jazz that he played.
  Born in 1939, in his high school he joined with fellow students and 
created the Jazz Crusaders. In doing so, he enjoyed a wonderful career 
that saw him working with people such as Miles Davis, George Benson, 
Jimmy Witherspoon, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Steely Dan, and the 
Supremes. He incorporated jazz in many things that he did, but he also 
understood gospel, blues, Latin, and the classical form.
  In talking to his family this week, and to his family and his wife, I 
give them my deepest sympathy.
  He said he was proud of his gospel music album.
  We are saddened that he has lost his life in his battle against lung 
cancer. I am delighted to salute him as a great American who shared his 
talent with young people, who was kind to those with whom he grew up, 
who made Texas proud, and certainly is renowned throughout this great 
community of Houston and the Nation.
  Starting the piano at 5, Joe Sample never left his love of music and 
always tried to share it and be a representative of the value of what 
music is to children and the American people.
  I ask this Congress to acknowledge with me this great hero, Joe 
Sample, a musician, an American, someone who we can be proud of that 
lived good in this country.

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