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Street Life (The Crusaders album)

In Album, Street life on February 18, 2013 at 5:45 pm

Released & recorded in 1979, Label:  MCA,Genre: Jazz-funk

Producer             Wilton Felder, Stix Hooper and Joe Sample

Street Life is a studio album by the American jazz band The Crusaders. It was a top 20 album on three Billboard charts and represents the peak of the band’s commercial popularity. The title track, featuring singer Randy Crawford, was a Top 40 pop single (#36) and became the group’s most successful entry on the soul chart (#17)”Street Life” also hit the disco chart, peaking at #7 and was featured in both Sharky’s Machine, directed by  Burt Reynolds in 1981, and Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown, released in 1997.

Track listing

  1. “Street Life” (Will Jennings, Joe Sample) – 11:18
  2. “My Lady” (Wilton Felder) – 6:43
  3. “Rodeo Drive (High Steppin’)” (Sample) – 4:28
  4. “Carnival of the Night” (Felder) – 6:24
  5. “The Hustler” (Stix Hooper) – 5:18
  6. “Night Faces” (Sample) – 5:10

Personnelstreetlife cd

  • Arthur Adams – guitar
  • Roland Bautista – guitar
  • Oscar Brashear – trumpet
  • Garnett Brown – trombone
  • Randy Crawford – vocals
  • Paulinho Da Costa – percussion
  • Wilton Felder – saxophone, bass guitar, producer
  • Barry Finnerty – guitar
  • William Green – saxophone
  • Stix Hooper – drums, producer
  • Paul Jackson Jr. – guitar
  • James Jamerson – bass guitar
  • Alphonso Johnson – bass guitar
  • Robert O’Bryan – trumpet
  • Jerome Richardson – saxophone
  • Billy Rogers – guitar
  • Joe Sample – keyboards, producer

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 crusaders

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