1968-69 found the band members doing their first outside projects. Joe Sample released the Joe Sample Trio and their 1969 Sonnet album Try Us. Wilton Felder released the quintessentially late '60s ...

The Jazz Crusaders were a durable and acclaimed bebop band in the '60s before they found ... "So you have four original members there," Sample says. The show's sound, Sample says, "stems from ...