One evening only: Randy Crawford

Performing together with Joe Sample at Carnival City, Crawford and Sample have been making music together for nearly 36 years.

Date: October 14
Time: 6pm
Venue: Big Top Arena – Carnival City – Brakpan
Tickets: R350 to R680 from Computicket

From their first hit together in 1979, Randy Crawford and Joe Sample's “Street Life” (which Randy sang with Joe and The Crusaders) to “One Day I’ll Fly Away,” “When Your Life Was Low” and “Last Night at Danceland,” to their recent duo collaborations on the GRAMMY®-nominated CDs Feeling Good (2006) and No Regrets (2008), they have made music that people remember. They remember the songs. They remember the melodies. But above all, they remember Randy’s incredible voice – and Randy’s voice is truly one of the most memorable of all the singers today.
 
Randy shows - without a doubt - that she is one of today’s premier song stylists, and clearly stakes her claim as a jazz singer.
 
Joe furthers his reputation as one of today’s most exciting piano players, knowing exactly when to accompany and when to make the keys dance.
 
Born in Macon, Georgia, raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, Randy started singing in the choir loft of her neighbourhood church. As a teenager she established a reputation on the mid-western club circuit. By age 21, she had worked with Quincy Jones, recorded with Cannonball Adderley and regularly toured with George Benson. She signed to Warner Brothers Records in 1976 for her debut, Everything Must Change. She is loved all over the world for her incredible voice and uncanny choice of songs.

Joe Sample was born and raised in Houston, Texas. He formed the seminal group the Jazz Crusaders, later known as The Crusaders, as a teenager in the early `50s with neighbourhood buddies Wilton Felder, Stix Hooper, and Wayne Henderson. The group became one of the all-time leading jazz ensembles and pioneered the way for the sound of contemporary jazz. Joe’s solo recordings Rainbow Seeker (1978) and Carmel (1979) became classic pop jazz albums before anyone knew what “pop jazz” was. He continues today as a legendary figure in contemporary jazz music.