Old Places, Old Faces by Joe Sample

Personnel: Joe Sample (piano, Fender Rhodes); Charles Lloyd (tenor saxophone); Dean Parks (guitar); Jay Anderson (bass); Ralph Penland (drums); Lenny Castro (percussion). Includes liner notes by Joe Sample. Personnel: Joe Sample (piano, Fender Rhodes piano); Dean Parks (guitar); Charles Lloyd (tenor saxophone); Jay Anderson (bass guitar); Lenny Castro (drums, percussion); Ralph Penland (drums). Audio Mixer: Al Schmitt. Recording information: Schnee Studio. Illustrator: Greg Christie. Photographer: Robert Maxwell. Arranger: Joe Sample. The former Crusader acquits himself admirably on these ten original compositions. Much of OLD PLACES finds Sample settling comfortably into the niche he knows best: laid-back, West Coast groove-jazz. Sample is such a master of the style, though, that the tunes never sound tired or stale. He has the uncommon ability to suggest kinetic energy without relinquishing his easy, in-the-pocket feel. Sample's accomplices in rhythm, bassist Jay Arden and drummer Ralph Penland, are wi...