Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Music, at its best, can move the spirit. But a spirit can also move the music. Saturday night a ...

Children of the Sun, composer/pianist Joe Sample's powerful programmatic evocation of what it meant to be a slave, was released posthumously on January 6, 2015. Sample, a founding member of the Jazz ...

Beyonce has explained her use of a news report sample about the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, in which seven people died, on her new track 'XO'. The song is the lead track from the star's ...

Not long into his tenure as UB’s 12th president, Steven B. Sample developed a prophetic message about the university and the Buffalo Niagara region. He would tell people – everyone from tenured ...

This Monday, May 31st, a day of solemn observance and reverence, is a time to pause and consider the true meaning of Memorial Day, a day in which we honor those brave men and women who gave their ...

Bobby Lyle, like his late friend Joe Sample, does not believe in boundaries. Lyle is known as a jazz pianist, but he also has been musical director for Bette Midler, Al Jarreau and Anita Baker. He ...

Abba stars have said they consider Madonna's sample of their song in Hung Up to be a tribute. The new track, which went to number one last week, used part of the Swedish band's Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (A ...