(Funk, Soul-Jazz) [SHM-CD] The Crusaders - The Vocal Album (Remastered Edition) - 2012 (1987), FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

01. Street Life (Will Jennings / Joe Sample) 07:32
02. This Old World’s Too Funky for Me (Will Jennings / Joe Sample) 05:25
03. Better Not Look Down (Will Jennings / Joe Sample) 05:46
04. Inherit the Wind (Wilton Felder / Derell Ray Nix) 03:54
05. Hold On (I Think Our Love Is Changing) (Will Jennings / Joe Sample) 04:10
06. Help! (I Need Somebody) (John Lennon / Paul McCartney) 04:31
07. Soul Shadows (Will Jennings / Joe Sample) 06:25
08. The Way It Goes (Will Jennings / Joe Sample) 04:48
09. I’m So Glad I’m Standing (Will Jennings / Joe Sample) 05:03
10. (No Matter How High I Get) I’ll Still Be Looking Up to You (Bobby Womack) 04:14
11. Burnin’ Up the Carnival (Will Jennings / Joe Sample) 07:19

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The Crusaders / The Vocal Album (2012 remastered ed., SHM-CD)
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Back in 1954, Houston pianist Joe Sample teamed up with high school friends tenor saxophonist Wilton Felder and drummer Stix Hooper to form the Swingsters. Within a short time, they were joined by trombonist Wayne Henderson, flutist Hubert Laws, and bassist Henry Wilson and the group became the Modern Jazz Sextet. With the move of Sample, Felder, Hooper, and Henderson to Los Angeles in 1960, the band (a quintet, with the bass spot constantly changing) took on the name of the Jazz Crusaders. The following year they made their first recordings for Pacific Jazz and throughout the 1960s the group was a popular attraction, mixing together R&B and Memphis soul elements with hard bop; its trombone/tenor frontline became a trademark. By 1971, when all of the musicians were also busy with their own projects, it was decided to call the group simply the Crusaders so it would not be restricted to playing only jazz. After a few excellent albums during the early part of the decade (with guitarist Larry Carlton a strong asset), the group began to decline in quality. In 1975, the band’s sound radically changed when Henderson departed to become a full-time producer. 1979’s “Street Life” was a hit, but also a last hurrah. With Hooper’s decision to leave in 1983, the group no longer sounded like the Crusaders and gradually disbanded. In the mid-’90s, Henderson and Felder had a reunion as the Crusaders but in reality, only Joe Sample has had a strong solo career. (Scott Yanow, AllMusic)

Funny, we can’t remember so many singers turning up on the Crusaders’ albums, but look a little closer at the liner. For this 1987 compilation—designed, perhaps, to fill the gap between albums by a group that no longer was a full-time act—MCA reached for records by B.B. King, Tina Turner, Joe Sample, and Wilton Felder that various Crusaders played on, as well as the band’s output from Street Life through The Good and Bad Times. B.B. takes the prize for his fabulous, humorously funky, live-in-London turn on “Better Not Look Down”—he plays guitar so sparingly, and every note is right in the pocket—but Joe Cocker comes close, riding on a classic bumpy Crusaders groove on “This Old World’s Too Funky for Me.” Of course, Randy Crawford’s career-making “Street Life” leads off the set, and Tina Turner (in a lugubrious dissection of the Beatles’ “Help”), Bobby Womack, Alltrinna Grayson, Bill Withers, Flora Purim and Josie James also contribute with various degrees of effectiveness. Despite a few weak moments, the album works amazingly well, partly as an alternative highlights collection and partly as a sober reminder to the remaining Crusaders and their fans as to how essential drummer Stix Hooper was to their sound. (Richard S. Ginell, AllMusic)

For the list of vocalists, please see the enclosed booklet.