Advisory Board and two terms as Alabama State President of the National Association of Jazz Educators. While attending the Arranger’s Workshop at the Eastman School of Music in the summer of 1974, he was selected to write a feature arrangement for Stan Getz, tenor saxophonist. In 1982 and 1986 he took jazz combos on tour in Guatemala and Costa Rica. In May 1986, he took the University of Alabama Jazz Ensemble to Disney World for three days of performing. During the course of his tenure at the University of Alabama, he and the UA Jazz Ensemble worked with such stars as Bob Hope, Dave Brubeck, Jim Nabors, Vic Damone and Joan Rivers plus jazz greats Maynard Ferguson, Dizzy Gillespie, Dee Barton, Bill Watrous, Urbie Green, Alan Vizutti, Gene Bertoncini and Rich Matteson. The Jazz Ensembles won and/or participated in local and regional jazz festivals including Tallahassee, Florida, Memphis, Tennessee, Atlanta, Georgia and Mobile, Alabama. The UA Jazz Ensemble also traveled to and performed at the Wichita and the Notre Dame Jazz festivals. Notable students Cedric Dent, member of the jazz vocal group Take 6; received master's degree in Arranging with Sample Birch Johnson, top New York City trombonist; played with the Woody Herman Band, the Tommy Dorsey Band and the Blues Brothers Ray Reach, pianist, singer, arranger and teacher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) (1998-2005); currently Director of Student Jazz Programs at the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame; was Sample's first graduate assistant at the University of Alabama; has produced and recorded with many notable jazz players, including Lou Marini, Lew Soloff, Ellis Marsalis and Eric Essix Chuck Tilley, drummer; has toured with Lee Greenwood, Engelbert Humperdinck, Dolly Parton and Alabama (band); now a member of the group Sixwire Mervyn Warren, member of the jazz vocal group Take 6; received master's degree in Arranging with Sample Publications In 1982, Sample wrote the textbook An Approach to Mainstream Jazz and Pop Harmony. He has published both original compositions and arrangements with the Dallas Jazz Orchestra (now known as Dallas' Original Jazz Orchestra). In addition, he has published a string orchestra arrangement of "Silent Night" with Belwin Publishers. Since retiring, he has continued to send arrangements to the SuperJazz Big Band in Birmingham, Alabama. He has written for the Los Angeles Resonance Flute Consortium and the trombone section of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Sample became acquainted with the