These guys are jazz legends. May God bless them all. Peace to my dad Eddie Davis who is on trumpet playing his heart out in this video. Stay strong pop !
+PSYCHO G -- Q :: -- Is Eddie "Will" Davis really your father?? - Eddie Davis certainly plays brilliantly in this concert, he is an absolute joy to listen to, as of course are all the other guys.... I checked some of Eddie's credentials, he has been playing trumpet for 30-odd years, and he has played with some really big-name artistes and bands...
R.I.P. to Wilton Felder... The Texas Twister. Such an inspiration to me to be a better saxman. He left so much music on his own.... both on sax and bass. A great loss. Rest In Paradise.
The members of both The Jazz Crusaders and all versions of this current Crusaders band are the best musicians playing jazz, blues, funk and soul on our small planet. Since the 60's in Houston, Joe, Wilton, Stix, Wayne and Larry with all of the best guys and girls playing the timeless great jazz music. God Bless all of the Crusaders here and in Heaven. Peace and Love.
To the families, relatives and friends of Joe Sample and George - great human beings and musicians - our heart-felt condolences and profoundest sympathy. May their Soul-Spirit rest in peace .Gone physically; forever here spiritually! (And to those of Horace Silver, a man of parallel temperament and musicianship.)
I was 14 years old in 1974 and bumped into these guys and absorbed the positive vibe with my whole heart. The Crusaders are a national treasure and just the very hardest working and the very best musicians. They pumped out so much quality art it is difficult to quantify. Icons of what it means to be a working musicians and how to create a meaningful impact on culture. Total OG's. They touched so many people and left a legacy of pure joy.
Enjoying this Live recording in Nov 2020 in the midst of Covid-19 when all Live music shows have been cancelled. This music feeds my soul! So grateful for the gift the Jazz Crusaders left behind. My prayers to all the musicians unable to perform live right now. May we Never take this experience for granted again.
As time goes by, we loose great musicians who rocked our ears for so long. We've never met them but consider them as close friends. Thank you messrs Sample and Felder. May you rest in peace. Your music will survive you for long.
A lot of my friends do not know their music. I was introduced to there music when I was in my senior year in high school 1964. I became a fan and followed their music picking up several of their work which I still have on vinyl. Rest in Peace Brothers Joe Sample, Wayne Henderson and Wilton Felder. THANK YOU FOR THAT FUNKY SOUND.
The band that turned me on to jazz fusion when I first heard “Street Life” in 79. Joe Sample, Wilton Felder, Wayne Henderson and Stix Hooper back in the day. Throw in Larry Carlton for good measure. Nancy Wilson was in her mid 70s when this concert was filmed, and she looks and sounds beautiful!
Wilton's tone was huge like Houston Pearson, Gene Ammons. Great player! He gave me a mouthpiece years ago when I use to visit his house I still have it, a "Berg Larsen"). The trumpet player, Eddie Davis, sounds a lot like Freddie Hubbard. And of course, Nancy Wilson is simply "MAGIC".
Jazz at its best and one of the best jazz ensemble ever. Love all their music but my favorites are Uh Huh, Keep that same old feeling, Inherit the Wind, and Street Lights w/ Randy Crawford . Met Stix Hooper's younger brother Sam Hooper in boot camp while serving in the Marine Corps back in 1967 and still good friends today. Thanks and a shout out to all you Jazz lovers out there whoever you may be !
Saw them in 2004, it was the last concert my "late" wife saw before starting chemo. Best concert ever! Ray Parker Jr. and Randy Crawford were on stage with them. I've seen dozens of singers and Randy was the best I ever heard live! RIP Joe Sample , Wilton Felder and Angela "Candy" Burton.
Come on... Streetlife that wasn't the Crusaders Hope it gave them a lot of money it also was the beginning of the end. Which, of course, always comes. Glad we have this!! And all the beautiful albums from 1962-1979
@@RaulVeldhuizenwhat?! We’re just gonna pass up Last Call, Soul Shadows, the Royal Jam, Standing Tall album? Uhmm sorry very hard disagree, Streetlife was not the end.
Thank you for sharing this. I saw The Crusaders when I went to Newport for the first time. I spent the weekend there, and can't wait to return this summer.
The Crusaders gave us their best every time they performed....I wish I had gotten to see them perform live, that would have completed one of the things on my bucket list, but this will have to do.
I´ve seen this same band, some days before playing in detroit , I´m so happy to find and see this again than you for sharing, brings me very good moments
One of my most memorable moments..my friend Rex Clement had a killer stereo...was with some guys in his room and he put on Stomp and Buck Dance from Southern Comfort...it was yes...epic...😀🔥
Free As The Wind, one of my favorite Crusaders albums. Can't forget Streetlife either. One of the best tracks on Free As The Wind: Sweet and Sour. As for Joe Sample's solo albums The Hunter is defintely one to add to your collection.
TheFunkyKingston Wilton Felder fantastic musician has played the bass in "MERRY GO Round" ( album Image 1978 ! ) try to retrieve it with no succes any link ? ( not in i tune ) YOU tub video not available .. thanks !!
TheFunkyKingston Hi Just after wrote you , got lucky !! I found it in daily motion , a live of MERRY GO ROUND , I lost that Lp by moving houses!!! ... WF was great bass player too ., I did play that line of bass... another great song of crusaders in that album is "Fairy tales" !! True fairy tales funky jazz music !!! God bless ..
Wilton is an almost unsung connoisseur sax master who knows his craft. His masculine sound is individualized with unique pathos and beauty. Ronny laws has adopted his sound, with a little soul and tactile restraint.Wilton played bass on Ronny's first (or second) album.
JazzKeyboardist1 Q: Which sax has a feminine sound?? -- Smartass answer: Any of them, if played by a female!! -- There are plenty of good female sax players out there, and here are just a few for starters: Candy Dulfer, Chika Asamoto, Jessy J, Saori Yano, Pamela Williams, Layla Angulo, Mindi Abair, Mihoko Abe, Kaori Kobayashi, Talita Summer ... and the band played on...... Here's a Question for you, dude: What's the difference between sax appeal and sex appeal??
met the Crusaders in Kansas City back in the70s those southern knights was the jam album of the summer they were very gracious to me I was a teen knew nothing about jazz when I got back home to Louisville I bought task I swear I played it for a solid 2 was these guys introduced me to jazz and I have never been the same
Props to The Crusaders - they were at the forefront of smooth jazz mixing R&B w/jazz and funk w/their own form of “fusion”(for lack of a better term for the internet expert wankers out there!). I don’t think they ever sold out to the sappier sides of smooth jazz just to sell records - seems like they always kept it real!
One of My Favorite groups as they say, "back in da day" while attending Southern Illinois Univ.,(Carbondale). They were then, "The Jazz Crusaders"... Great smooth Jazz!!! Really Nice Movements too! Also Much Thanks Mr.Wilton Felder for the Great work... R.I.P. & God's Peace to his family... -The Lord's PCP
japeraYokohama Dearest Nancy. I had all but forgotten about her. Such dignity and grace. She was so wonderful. Now our children listen to Beyoncé and the like. How far we have fallen. Thank God for this video.
Saw them several times" they were great! saw them with Larry Carlton; also Stix Hooper. They were funky and Sample was a beast on Keyboards! Check out Crusader"s backing Bill Withers in Zaire at Ali, Forman fight! awesome!
The next to last tune is Wilton Felder's "Covert Action" off the Images album. The last one escapes me. The younger girl singing "Street Life" is Reichii Guillory, who was fresh off singing a couple of songs on Wilton's then-new album Love Is a Rush.
I discovered The Crusaders by accident many, many years ago by reading the liner notes of Steely Dan albums. Who are these guys who play on Steely Dan? After a little research, I bought Free As The Wind and the rest is history. The music doesn't get any better.
Hugely greater institution than Harvard or Oxford and so on - a total education of the humane kind. Thank you, Crusaders, for decades of love, joy and insight.
All are respected while I have seen Joe Sample several times in a beautiful outdoor umm, shell or whatever, but a reflective way to direct the sound and not let the wind impact too much on the players just North of Cincinnati, Ohio USA. It is a long-time venue where anybody that is anyone's favorite comes during the year. A very busy place for good jazz. Of course being a boater, this venue is superb. I wish by closing my eyes and imagine if she was in my arms on a boat listening to some good jazz is would be heavenly. just one problem: no boat and lady yet!
I´m not a jazz listener and usually most jazz music sounds pretty much the same to me - but the music of these guys definitely left a lasting mark in my mind. The guest singers sound amazing, too!
Don't know anything about Eddie Davis. But, it was good that they could get him to round out that traditional brass-woodwind front end that's found in both mainstream and contemporary jazz.
Every time we lose a Joe Sample, or an Eric Gale, or a Grover Washington, Jr., a Stanley Turrentine, a Freddie Hubbard, or a Richard Tee or a Harvey Mason ..... just a little sliver of my musical soul is doused. Those slivers represents spaces in time, spent with people who were and are special .....
K Jones question : do we have today others as good who have replaced them so far ?? , those one were solid musicians and very talented ( Eric gale , Hubbard etc...) does this crazy world still allow to " disclose "such talents ? As before ... ? Who , ( where )is the new Nina Simone ...?
There have been some very good 'acid jazz' bands keeping this genre alive. Obviously they don't have the same profile as these guys but their talent is excellent. try the James Taylor Quartet, and Dutch Band the Jazzinvaders for example. Mezzoforte are still going strong and you should definitely check them out as they come from a slightly newer generation than these guys and aren't in their dotage yet LOL. Obviously Jamiroquai, Brand New Heavies and Incognito also fly the flag. it is perhaps easy to dismiss these guys as 'johnny come lately' characters but don't assume they aren't as good as musicians because trust me, it isn't the case.
Thank you Wilton Felder for introducing me to some of the best music ever, Jazz! The real (Grown Folks Music), I was introduced to Jazz by a friend from Houston, the hometown of Crusaders. When I heard "We All Have A Star" I was hooked. I became a musical grown woman at 21. Thanks AL, for the introduction. " R.I.P Wilton Felder, Joe Sample, Wayne Henderson, and Bobby Womack and Randi Crawford for the madd vocal tracks for Inherit the Wind, (Bobby) Street Life (Randi Crawford), jam out in Heaven!
+msrubie11 --Please be cautious when posting obituaries of musicians, msrubie11.... -- Randy Crawford born in 1952 in Macon in the state of Georgia is now 64 years old and is still going strong, so please do not categorise Miss Randy Crawford in the same bracket as those good musicians who have deceased because it is not only un-factual and untruthful but rather ungracious as well.......besides which it is Randy, not Randi (sic)
tunefultony johnson Frist, let me say that I am very happy Randi Crawford is still with us and I truly apologized to her for my mistake. I typed in her information and it did show she was deceased. There are cites that do that and I should have double checked before posting. Again that is my mistake but that is what it was a mistake! Everyone is capable of making them. Ms. Crawford is a great Artist and have given us great music I am happy to hear that she is still going strong. With that being said a mere "you made a mistake" and communicating Randi was still alive and well would have sufficed. Your condescending language, the authoritative manner with it's berating tone that you chose to use would have caused most adults to tell you where to go and how to get there. It is uncalled for and it show how you are use to communicating with those around you, with condescension and disrespect. I have always enjoyed Randi, but this post nor my comment was about her. It was about Wilton Felder and the Crusaders. The fact is the Crusaders were from Texas and they were my focus. I was not including Randi Crawford as one of the original Crusaders nor was I including Bobby Womack. They were only featured on certain songs as they were individual Artists with there own careers. I.E. why their name was to the side with the name of the tracks they were most known for with the Crusaders. Third: There is a way to inform people that they have a fact wrong. You went beyond that and it became offensive. Whether you meant it to be or not remains to be seen. While I appreciate the information that she is still on earth and going strong as she is one hell of a singer. This post were about Felder and the Crusaders, the focus was on them, not Randi. Please do not post me in this manner again as I am as "Adult" as you and I may not be as nice the next time!
+msrubie11 - I am unconcerned as to whether you think I was rude to you.. I was merely pointing out the fact that Randy Crawford is still in the land of the living, and if somebody posted that I was dead when I was anything but dead, then I think I would be grossly offended..... AMEN..... Have a good day..... This video is one of the Crusaders' greatest live concerts, but Ricky Gillery takes the vocal part of Miss Randy Crawford on the song STREET LIFE.
+msrubie11 -- Dumball, I never even mentioned Otis Redding -- what's he got to do with Randy fucking Crawford ???-- You are a really nasty piece of work.
Joe Sample, Wilton Felder and George Duke, surrealistically talented artists, had involuntarily departed from our physical Earth plane far too soon; but, fortunately enough for us, they did not before they bequeathed to us - musically asserting - a library of stellar magnificence. Now, having ascended into the spiritual realm of profound quietude and tranquility, each will be greeted thus by Almighty God, with His angelic hosts: " This is My beloved (musical) son in whom I am well-pleased!". May the Spirit-Soul of each artist be accorded infinite and perpetual Rest in the sacred and sanctified bosom of Providence which dwelleth in the celestial sphere.
Classically progressive and 'funkily' Smooth is the Jazz Crusaders. Rickie does an emotional interpretation of Street Life; I felt I was experiencing the ups-and-downs of street-life as she sang so soulfully and spiritually. Both Randy Crawford and Lalah Hathaway have done superbly as well. Joe Sample is -is- at his masterful best. He himself and George Duke are - yes! - are as skillful as the much- vaunted Amanda 'Chick' Corea and Herbie Hancock. Nancy Wilson brings to mind her musical 'off-springs' in the persons of Phyllis Hyman (RIP) and Anita Baker. An earlier Nancy Wilson herself reminisces Diana Washington. Displaying unselfish leadership, Wilton Felder, like Miles Davis, permits his men to showcase their individual abilities without dictatorial intrusion. Thus, the trumpeter does sing superfluously and well indeed. Wilton Felder is true Jazz, within or without a rhythmic jazz-context, a la Stanley Turrentine. Ernest Watts (tenor and alto saxes), Wilton Felder, Ed Calle, Bob Berg, Michael Breaker, Joe Levano, Joshua Redman (sp.), Gary Meeks and Brandon Fields are 'alumni' of John William Coltrane, the father of modern tenor saxophone-ship, so to say. After more than 30 years to date of this in vivo performance, the Band sounds futuristically fresh despite the absence of trombonist Fred Wesley. Many stars to the trumpeter whose name has eluded me. Thanks for posting!
These guys are jazz legends. May God bless them all. Peace to my dad Eddie Davis who is on trumpet playing his heart out in this video. Stay strong pop !
+PSYCHO G -- Q :: -- Is Eddie "Will" Davis really your father?? - Eddie Davis certainly plays brilliantly in this concert, he is an absolute joy to listen to, as of course are all the other guys.... I checked some of Eddie's credentials, he has been playing trumpet for 30-odd years, and he has played with some really big-name artistes and bands...
Big Big respect to ur wonderful father for given me the best music ever ....take care and thank you for sharing.....
Eddie Davis is really your dad ? Way cool man 👍
Only right to wish him a happy fathers day
your dad is a monster player ,great
R.I.P. to Wilton Felder... The Texas Twister. Such an inspiration to me to be a better saxman. He left so much music on his own.... both on sax and bass. A great loss. Rest In Paradise.
Old school jazz HBCU I'm a 71 old A&T graduate and they are HBCU graduates.Bad bothers!
The members of both The Jazz Crusaders and all versions of this current Crusaders band are the best musicians playing jazz, blues, funk and soul on our small planet. Since the 60's in Houston, Joe, Wilton, Stix, Wayne and Larry with all of the best guys and girls playing the timeless great jazz music. God Bless all of the Crusaders here and in Heaven. Peace and Love.
To the families, relatives and friends of Joe Sample and George - great human beings and musicians - our heart-felt condolences and profoundest sympathy. May their Soul-Spirit rest in peace .Gone physically; forever here spiritually! (And to those of Horace Silver, a man of parallel temperament and musicianship.)
i BELIEVE THE CRUSADERS ARE ARGUABLY THE BEST JAZZ BAND EVER.
Agreed!
debatable but still one of the greats! :)
@halwarner3326 A L L ranking is childish
Sweet music by one of the greatest ensemble that ever came to earth.
I was 14 years old in 1974 and bumped into these guys and absorbed the positive vibe with my whole heart. The Crusaders are a national treasure and just the very hardest working and the very best musicians. They pumped out so much quality art it is difficult to quantify. Icons of what it means to be a working musicians and how to create a meaningful impact on culture. Total OG's. They touched so many people and left a legacy of pure joy.
Enjoying this Live recording in Nov 2020 in the midst of Covid-19 when all Live music shows have been cancelled. This music feeds my soul! So grateful for the gift the Jazz Crusaders left behind. My prayers to all the musicians unable to perform live right now. May we Never take this experience for granted again.
As time goes by, we loose great musicians who rocked our ears for so long. We've never met them but consider them as close friends. Thank you messrs Sample and Felder. May you rest in peace. Your music will survive you for long.
Let the good times roll.
A lot of my friends do not know their music. I was introduced to there music when I was in my senior year in high school 1964. I became a fan and followed their music picking up several of their work which I still have on vinyl. Rest in Peace Brothers Joe Sample, Wayne Henderson and Wilton Felder. THANK YOU FOR THAT FUNKY SOUND.
2 original members.. Absolute perfect quality.. this is the shit you want.
Vous n'ètes plus là ou vous étiez mais vous ètes partout la ou je suis.
RIP Brothers.
The band that turned me on to jazz fusion when I first heard “Street Life” in 79. Joe Sample, Wilton Felder, Wayne Henderson and Stix Hooper back in the day. Throw in Larry Carlton for good measure. Nancy Wilson was in her mid 70s when this concert was filmed, and she looks and sounds beautiful!
Wilton's tone was huge like Houston Pearson, Gene Ammons. Great player! He gave me a mouthpiece years ago when I use to visit his house I still have it, a "Berg Larsen"). The trumpet player, Eddie Davis, sounds a lot like Freddie Hubbard. And of course, Nancy Wilson is simply "MAGIC".
Jazz at its best and one of the best jazz ensemble ever. Love all their music but my favorites are Uh Huh, Keep that same old feeling, Inherit the Wind, and Street Lights w/ Randy Crawford . Met Stix Hooper's younger brother Sam Hooper in boot camp while serving in the Marine Corps back in 1967 and still good friends today. Thanks and a shout out to all you Jazz lovers out there whoever you may be !
i love this trumpeter-! very good sound.
Saw them in 2004, it was the last concert my "late" wife saw before starting chemo. Best concert ever! Ray Parker Jr. and Randy Crawford were on stage with them. I've seen dozens of singers and Randy was the best I ever heard live! RIP Joe Sample , Wilton Felder and Angela "Candy" Burton.
RIP the great Nancy Wilson, would have loved to hear her rendition of "Streetlife" here
Come on... Streetlife that wasn't the Crusaders Hope it gave them a lot of money it also was the beginning of the end. Which, of course, always comes. Glad we have this!! And all the beautiful albums from 1962-1979
@@RaulVeldhuizenwhat?! We’re just gonna pass up Last Call, Soul Shadows, the Royal Jam, Standing Tall album? Uhmm sorry very hard disagree, Streetlife was not the end.
Thank you for sharing this. I saw The Crusaders when I went to Newport for the first time. I spent the weekend there, and can't wait to return this summer.
Sherman Whitman marvin gaye
The Crusaders gave us their best every time they performed....I wish I had gotten to see them perform live, that would have completed one of the things on my bucket list, but this will have to do.
I did...once...Concord California...phenomenal...same bill with Modern Jazz Quartet...👍🏻
I saw the original lineup at Carleton College in 1978... 'epic' is too puny a word.
I´ve seen this same band, some days before playing in detroit , I´m so happy to find and see this again
than you for sharing, brings me very good moments
thanks for posting...crusaders was one of my first LP album,.fond memories inspite of the corona virus..salamat po
The Crusaders made my days in Hayward/Oakland, California back in the early '70's that much better.
myklmusic also from hayward and grew up on this
One of my most memorable moments..my friend Rex Clement had a killer stereo...was with some guys in his room and he put on
Stomp and Buck Dance from Southern Comfort...it was yes...epic...😀🔥
Free As The Wind, one of my favorite Crusaders albums. Can't forget Streetlife either. One of the best tracks on Free As The Wind: Sweet and Sour. As for Joe Sample's solo albums The Hunter is defintely one to add to your collection.
Really complicated music
but they make it sound
so easy my favourite
jazz funk band
their music is timeless
RIP Mr Wilton Felder...thanks for all this precious music!!! Gone but not forgotten!!
I am so heartbroken to,learn that Wilton Felder passed away... What a shining talent. The world was a better place with him in it.
Barry Cantin
That's for sure dear Barry...
TheFunkyKingston Wilton Felder fantastic musician has played the bass in "MERRY GO Round" ( album Image 1978 ! ) try to retrieve it with no succes any link ? ( not in i tune ) YOU tub video not available .. thanks !!
Kassius KLAY
Oh yes he was a bass player...this album was it with the Crusaders? I ll search for it through the web! Peace bro!
TheFunkyKingston Hi Just after wrote you , got lucky !! I found it in daily motion , a live of MERRY GO ROUND , I lost that Lp by moving houses!!! ... WF was great bass player too ., I did play that line of bass... another great song of crusaders in that album is "Fairy tales" !! True fairy tales funky jazz music !!! God bless ..
I still remember 1983 when we learned to listening to jazz the crusaders jazz was what we knew .It is legendary.
Thank God for real music and the artist that performs it for us.
That gorgeous woman just oozes class and grace what a treat the crusaders are!! God must giggle when they play
35 years later in 2022 I'm remembering the music 'Carmel' which I never knew the name of back then. WOW... Did anybody else perform this choon?
Love it!
I saw these cats play Fredonia college, SUNY, in probably '75 or '76.
Amazing show.
thanks guys, brings me the memory of my college days...yea.
Wilton is an almost unsung connoisseur sax master who knows his craft. His masculine sound is individualized with unique pathos and beauty. Ronny laws has adopted his sound, with a little soul and tactile restraint.Wilton played bass on Ronny's first (or second) album.
cool,, which sax has a feminine sound and please Kenny G eat a snickers
JazzKeyboardist1 Q: Which sax has a feminine sound?? -- Smartass answer: Any of them, if played by a female!! -- There are plenty of good female sax players out there, and here are just a few for starters: Candy Dulfer, Chika Asamoto, Jessy J, Saori Yano, Pamela Williams, Layla Angulo, Mindi Abair, Mihoko Abe, Kaori Kobayashi, Talita Summer ... and the band played on...... Here's a Question for you, dude: What's the difference between sax appeal and sex appeal??
tunefultony johnson.. I don't want the mother of my children to put anything up my ass? lol top that hi
hi nice list of female excellent players,, I am proud of the females that played in front of me
--Especially a big baritone saxophone....?? :)
I have been a (Jazz) Crusader fan since "The Thing". If I can only own one collection it's the Crusaders.
Eddie Davis does a splendid job of filling out that brass chair vacated by the late Wayne Henderson (r.i.p.)
met the Crusaders in Kansas City back in the70s those southern knights was the jam album of the summer they were very gracious to me I was a teen knew nothing about jazz when I got back home to Louisville I bought task I swear I played it for a solid 2 was these guys introduced me to jazz and I have never been the same
Kent archie the best ever way back home always love you guys
The incomparable Nancy Wilson #sophisticatedlady😊
So much talent all in one super group
I love Nancy Wilson vocal.!! A very classy lady.!
Yes Indeed Eddie Davis is The Best I Ever Heard this Concert is my Everday Music
Props to The Crusaders - they were at the forefront of smooth jazz mixing R&B w/jazz and funk w/their own form of “fusion”(for lack of a better term for the internet expert wankers out there!). I don’t think they ever sold out to the sappier sides of smooth jazz just to sell records - seems like they always kept it real!
thanks for the shows !!! amazing !!!
Nancy Wilson G.O.A.T. (GREATEST OF ALL TIME)
I'm so happy to see how these kids have been grown! Congratulations my boys keep on going!!!
Yes, yes, and yes
The last two tracks are It's In E & Get Down With It. Very enjoyable , thanks.
Covert Action from the album Images is in there also.
One of My Favorite groups as they say, "back in da day" while attending Southern Illinois Univ.,(Carbondale). They were then, "The Jazz Crusaders"... Great smooth Jazz!!! Really Nice Movements too! Also Much Thanks Mr.Wilton Felder for the Great work... R.I.P. & God's Peace to his family... -The Lord's PCP
Wilton was so distinctive that a few notes identified him!
for those who don't know it : Wilton FELDER is also an excellent bass player ....
goodbye WILTON. Thanks for this concert
Crusaders music give me the power to live.
Nancy's song too.
I appericiate Mr.Sample ,Mr. Felder amd Mr.Fooper
John steven son
son
+japeraYokohama -- Appreciate.. Stix Hooper on drums... :)
japeraYokohama Dearest Nancy. I had all but forgotten about her. Such dignity and grace. She was so wonderful. Now our children listen to Beyoncé and the like. How far we have fallen. Thank God for this video.
😘 one of my favorite jazz groups, like he said back in Da day. Classic jazz
Oh Yeah..Simply magical was The Crusaders..Love it
Some great jazz - by great jazz musicians. And a bonus at about 48:00 - Nancy Wilson no less!
remember.. Larry Carlton. stix Hooper. Joe S. Wilton Felder, and...! Loved them ..!
Yes The OG’S
Saw them several times" they were great! saw them with Larry Carlton; also Stix Hooper. They were funky and Sample was a beast on Keyboards! Check out Crusader"s backing Bill Withers in Zaire at Ali, Forman fight! awesome!
Astonishing...divine performance!
Just love them, nearly 30 years old this sounds so good !
The next to last tune is Wilton Felder's "Covert Action" off the Images album. The last one escapes me. The younger girl singing "Street Life" is Reichii Guillory, who was fresh off singing a couple of songs on Wilton's then-new album Love Is a Rush.
Thank you for this information, 123!
long life the crusaders R.I.P Joe Sample,and long live Wilton Felder the greatest jazz band ever!!! thnx for this video.
A thrill to still hear some of those patented Jackson 5 licks from David T Walker. Nancy Wilson though!!!!
still a few new jazz musicians coming on the scene. the classic crusaders jazz will be carried forward..into yr 3000.
I discovered The Crusaders by accident many, many years ago by reading the liner notes of Steely Dan albums. Who are these guys who play on Steely Dan? After a little research, I bought Free As The Wind and the rest is history. The music doesn't get any better.
Great Great trumpet player. A serious musician.
Hugely greater institution than Harvard or Oxford and so on - a total education of the humane kind.
Thank you, Crusaders, for decades of love, joy and insight.
All are respected while I have seen Joe Sample several times in a beautiful outdoor umm, shell or whatever, but a reflective way to direct the sound and not let the wind impact too much on the players just North of Cincinnati, Ohio USA. It is a long-time venue where anybody that is anyone's favorite comes during the year. A very busy place for good jazz. Of course being a boater, this venue is superb. I wish by closing my eyes and imagine if she was in my arms on a boat listening to some good jazz is would be heavenly. just one problem: no boat and lady yet!
Fantastic concert!!! Thank you very much!!!
Thanks man!!
oooooooo that trumpet solo....tjakaaaaa , it cuts metal
What can I say but WOW!....what talent, artistry and excellence. I praise God for their wonderful contribution to music and to the world.
Great music
So full of semen. Hearty heart man-fire. Just buckets of semen right here
Incredible group!! Can't believe I didn't get into them ages ago!!😎
Kicking myself for never seeing them as a band, but I did see MIsters Felder and Sample just before both passed (as well as MIsters Duke and Jarreau).
I love you crusaders
I´m not a jazz listener and usually most jazz music sounds pretty much the same to me - but the music of these guys definitely left a lasting mark in my mind.
The guest singers sound amazing, too!
Find a way to keep listening to them. It will take you years. Your ears will enjoy it.
In one second it's already a groove......
Don't know anything about Eddie Davis. But, it was good that they could get him to round out that traditional brass-woodwind front end that's found in both mainstream and contemporary jazz.
Every time we lose a Joe Sample, or an Eric Gale, or a Grover Washington, Jr., a Stanley Turrentine, a Freddie Hubbard, or a Richard Tee or a Harvey Mason ..... just a little sliver of my musical soul is doused. Those slivers represents spaces in time, spent with people who were and are special .....
K Jones question : do we have today others as good who have replaced them so far ?? , those one were solid musicians and very talented ( Eric gale , Hubbard etc...) does this crazy world still allow to " disclose "such talents ? As before ... ? Who , ( where )is the new Nina Simone ...?
Try Snarky Puppy my friend, you won't believe the talent there.
Harvey Mason isnt dead.....man; the dude abides.
There have been some very good 'acid jazz' bands keeping this genre alive. Obviously they don't have the same profile as these guys but their talent is excellent. try the James Taylor Quartet, and Dutch Band the Jazzinvaders for example. Mezzoforte are still going strong and you should definitely check them out as they come from a slightly newer generation than these guys and aren't in their dotage yet LOL. Obviously Jamiroquai, Brand New Heavies and Incognito also fly the flag. it is perhaps easy to dismiss these guys as 'johnny come lately' characters but don't assume they aren't as good as musicians because trust me, it isn't the case.
K Jones the rappers and auto tone imposters own pop now. These people no nothing about real music.
Was there 🥰
Thank you Wilton Felder for introducing me to some of the best music ever, Jazz! The real (Grown Folks Music), I was introduced to Jazz by a friend from Houston, the hometown of Crusaders. When I heard "We All Have A Star" I was hooked. I became a musical grown woman at 21. Thanks AL, for the introduction. " R.I.P Wilton Felder, Joe Sample, Wayne Henderson, and Bobby Womack and Randi Crawford for the madd vocal tracks for Inherit the Wind, (Bobby) Street Life (Randi Crawford), jam out in Heaven!
+msrubie11 --Please be cautious when posting obituaries of musicians, msrubie11.... -- Randy Crawford born in 1952 in Macon in the state of Georgia is now 64 years old and is still going strong, so please do not categorise Miss Randy Crawford in the same bracket as those good musicians who have deceased because it is not only un-factual and untruthful but rather ungracious as well.......besides which it is Randy, not Randi (sic)
tunefultony johnson Frist, let me say that I am very happy Randi Crawford is still with us and I truly apologized to her for my mistake. I typed in her information and it did show she was deceased. There are cites that do that and I should have double checked before posting. Again that is my mistake but that is what it was a mistake! Everyone is capable of making them. Ms. Crawford is a great Artist and have given us great music I am happy to hear that she is still going strong.
With that being said a mere "you made a mistake" and communicating Randi was still alive and well would have sufficed. Your condescending language, the authoritative manner with it's berating tone that you chose to use would have caused most adults to tell you where to go and how to get there. It is uncalled for and it show how you are use to communicating with those around you, with condescension and disrespect.
I have always enjoyed Randi, but this post nor my comment was about her. It was about Wilton Felder and the Crusaders. The fact is
the Crusaders were from Texas and they were my focus. I was not including Randi Crawford as one of the original Crusaders nor was I including Bobby Womack. They were only featured on certain songs as they were individual Artists with there own careers. I.E. why their name was to the side with the name of the tracks they were most known for with the Crusaders.
Third: There is a way to inform people that they have a fact wrong. You went beyond that and it became offensive. Whether you meant it to be or not remains to be seen. While I appreciate the information that she is still on earth and going strong as she is one hell of a singer. This post were about Felder and the Crusaders, the focus was on them, not Randi. Please do not post me in this manner again as I am as "Adult" as you and I may not be as nice the next time!
+msrubie11 - I am unconcerned as to whether you think I was rude to you.. I was merely pointing out the fact that Randy Crawford is still in the land of the living, and if somebody posted that I was dead when I was anything but dead, then I think I would be grossly offended..... AMEN..... Have a good day..... This video is one of the Crusaders' greatest live concerts, but Ricky Gillery takes the vocal part of Miss Randy Crawford on the song STREET LIFE.
+msrubie11 ---No, No, YOU go fuck yourself, you are a total idiot....
+msrubie11 -- Dumball, I never even mentioned Otis Redding -- what's he got to do with Randy fucking Crawford ???-- You are a really nasty piece of work.
Legends....
gracias por subir videos de crusaders
I enjoyed foods for thoughts! Bravo
thanks for upload
LOVE THESE GUYS ! ABSOLUTE LEGENDS !!!!
One word for this...WOW!!!!
Amazing! Scott Peaker was on Fire!
He always is. I saw him perform often in Baltimore at the now defunct Park Plaza. He's great.
Who's the Woman standing in for Randy Crawford on Street Life? She was great. Loved her performance. Name please?
Красота!!
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El mejor Funk/Jazz/Blues!!! Eternos The Crusaders
amazing
この頃の日本でも大規模なジャズフェスが開催されていたのを思い出す。フュージョン路線ということで日本のジャズファンからはさほど人気がなかったＪ・サンプルだが、本国ではきちんと評価されていたのだろう。素晴らしいピアノソロがそれを証明している。それから高品位な画質。ディジタルかアナログか判らないが、この保存状態だけでも閲覧する価値がある。
What a precious gift from God. And what planet is David t Walker from.? The man just pours out love!!! What a gift!!!
Joe Sample, Wilton Felder and George Duke, surrealistically talented artists, had involuntarily departed from our physical Earth plane far too soon; but, fortunately enough for us, they did not before they bequeathed to us - musically asserting - a library of stellar magnificence.
Now, having ascended into the spiritual realm of profound quietude and tranquility, each will be greeted thus by Almighty God, with His angelic hosts: " This is My beloved (musical) son in whom I am well-pleased!".
May the Spirit-Soul of each artist be accorded infinite and perpetual Rest in the sacred and sanctified bosom of Providence which dwelleth in the celestial sphere.
That's Soul Heaven then!!!
wyndhl eodumegwu very well said, sir. If I were not in my cups, I would have been equally effusive of the joy of this music.
Outstanding!
Genial!!!
Classically progressive and 'funkily' Smooth is the Jazz Crusaders. Rickie does an emotional interpretation of Street Life; I felt I was experiencing the ups-and-downs of street-life as she sang so soulfully and spiritually. Both Randy Crawford and Lalah Hathaway have done superbly as well. Joe Sample is -is- at his masterful best. He himself and George Duke are - yes! - are as skillful as the much- vaunted Amanda 'Chick' Corea and Herbie Hancock. Nancy Wilson brings to mind her musical 'off-springs' in the persons of Phyllis Hyman (RIP) and Anita Baker. An earlier Nancy Wilson herself reminisces Diana Washington. Displaying unselfish leadership, Wilton Felder, like Miles Davis, permits his men to showcase their individual abilities without dictatorial intrusion. Thus, the trumpeter does sing superfluously and well indeed. Wilton Felder is true Jazz, within or without a rhythmic jazz-context, a la Stanley Turrentine. Ernest Watts (tenor and alto saxes), Wilton Felder, Ed Calle, Bob Berg, Michael Breaker, Joe Levano, Joshua Redman (sp.), Gary Meeks and Brandon Fields are 'alumni' of John William Coltrane, the father of modern tenor saxophone-ship, so to say. After more than 30 years to date of this in vivo performance, the Band sounds futuristically fresh despite the absence of trombonist Fred Wesley. Many stars to the trumpeter whose name has eluded me. Thanks for posting!
Good stuff!
Thanks they traded Waynns silver bent trombone for Winton felders silver sax ,,