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