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Wilton Felder: Let's Spend Some Time
by Dan McClenaghan
Wilton Felder, a founding member of the legendary Jazz Crusaders, presents his trademark smooth jazz sounds with a satisfyingly funky touch and laid-back soulfulness on Let's Spend Some Time.The arrangements--not always a strong element in smooth jazz outings--have a particularly fine quality, an intermingling of sax/trumpet, synth and loops. The first two cuts, Smoke House" and the title cut, as well as Ooh Wop, Doo Wop" and High Water," have the crisp jazz funk feeling of the late-Miles ...
read moreThe Jazz Crusaders: The Pacific Jazz Quintet Studio Sessions
by George Harris
If songs like Scratch" come to mind when you think of the Jazz Crusaders, you are in for a real treat with this six-CD set. Originally including jazz" in their moniker, Wayne Henderson (trombone), Wilton Felder (tenor), Joe Sample (piano) and Stix Hooper (drums) put together a collection of studio recordings that offers a pleasant surprise for mainstream jazz fans. This rocking set reveals the origins and many directions this multifaceted band took during the musically tumultuous '60s.
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by C. Andrew Hovan
You would think that in this day and age of compact disc reissues and with many years of activity under our belts that just about everything worthy of release has at one time or another made it to the stores. But even though jazz stands in good steed these days in terms of the availability of classic music, there still exists small pockets of music that have somehow eluded us and that is where this set falls. And when a ...
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