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Year Title Type Label Label-Nr Chart positions US Pop [1]US R&B [1]US Jazz [1]1961 Freedom Sound: Studio: Pacific Jazz: ST-27 — — — 1962 Lookin' Ahead
The Crusaders played a wide assortment of genres, including straight ahead jazz, urban R&B, R&B-based jazz, and the blues. The band reached a commercial apex in 1979 with their hit single "Street Life", featuring lead vocals by Randy Crawford, and their accompanying album of the same name. [1]
The AllMusic review by Jim Newsom says the album "finds the Crusaders at the top of their form" and that it is "one of the tastiest concoctions of the mid-'70s jazz-fusion era". [1] It concludes that Chain Reaction "helped lure young, rock and soul-oriented listeners over to check out the jazz side".
Those Southern Knights is a 1976 studio album by the Crusaders. It peaked at number 38 on the Billboard Top LPs chart, [4] as well as number 9 on the Soul LPs chart [5] and number 2 on the Top Jazz LPs chart. [6] It includes "Keep That Same Old Feeling" and "And Then There Was the Blues". [1]
The Jazz Crusaders became a strong concert draw during those years. While Sample and his bandmates continued to work together, he and the other band members pursued individual work as well. In 1969, Sample made his first recording under his own name; Fancy Dance featured the pianist as part of a jazz trio. [3]
Neil Christian (born Christopher Tidmarsh, 14 February 1943 [1] – 4 January 2010) [2] was an English singer. Christian had a solo hit single in 1966, when "That's Nice" (written by Miki Dallon), reached Number 14 in the UK Singles Chart. [3]
The Crusaders was a five-member band that evolved out of surf bands Scope Unlimited and The Sidewinders who got together while attending Westchester High School, Los Angeles. Scope Unlimited, which included Fred Barnett, his brother Jeff Barnett, Dan Altchuler and Walt Flannery, played mostly at recreational centers in Westchester and school ...
The Crusaders chronology; Scratch (1974) ... Chain Reaction (1975) Southern Comfort is a 1974 album by jazz fusion band the Crusaders. Reception. Professional ratings ...