Anita Baker
will also release a holiday album with Blue Note.
"Christmas Fantasy" hits stores October
4th, and will feature appearances by Joe
Sample,
Larry Carlton,
Nathan East, Ricky
Lawson, and all four members of The
Yellowjackets. Barry Eastman, who co-produces
here, also wrote three original tunes for the outing.
Diana Krall
will deliver her first Christmas album in 2005.
The outing, "Christmas Songs" will be
released on Verve November 1st.
Joe
Sample Goes Solo on 'Soul Shadows' August
4, 2004 - Joe
Sample is going for a different sound on his
next project. The Smooth Jazz pioneer will release
his first solo piano album 'Soul Shadows' on October
14 on Verve. The CD will also have a more traditional
feel with covers of Duke Ellington's 'I Got it
Bad and That Ain't Good' and 'The Entertainer'
by Scott Joplin. Sample will have mostly covers
on the album with the exception of two originals.
His last album 2002's 'The Pecan Tree' featured
the big Smooth Jazz hit 'X Marks the Spot'. He
is a founding member of the supergroup The Crusaders.
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