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The Crusaders

Eumir Deodato: Os Catedraticos 73

By CHRIS M. SLAWECKI

In 1973, Eumir Deodato was riding high upon the GRAMMY® Award-winning success of “Also Sprach Zarathurstra (Theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey)," the Brazilian keyboardist's jazz-rock fusion take on Richard Strauss' classic, from his previous release Prelude (CTI, 1972). Deodato's next move, Os Catedráticos 73 doesn't mess with that successful formula but throws a ...

Riding Waves, Moving Boundaries, and Building The Wall

By CHRIS M. SLAWECKI

Franco Ambrosetti Quintet Long Waves Unit Records 2019 Trumpeter Franco Ambrosetti balances in the middle of three jazz generations, the father of saxophonist Gianluca and son of saxophonist Flavio, who once played opposite Charlie Parker at the Paris Jazz Festival. Although he grew up studying classical ...

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2019

By JOHN KELMAN

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Various Venues Montréal, Canada June 27 -July 1, 2019 Forty years. Not a lifetime, perhaps, but a remarkably long time for any festival to not only continue to exist but, despite increasing challenges, to thrive. An even greater achievement when it's the Festival International de ...

Marcus Miller: America's AmBASSadoor

By JIM WORSLEY

Marcus Miller is most often described as a jazz, funk, soul, fusion, and R&B bassist. As much as that is accurate, it is a description that falls well short of the mark. Miller is a high-end musical sponge who manages to incorporate today's cultures and rhythms into his compositions, layered within the framework of sound he ...

The Crusaders: Live at Montreux 2003

By JERRY D'SOUZA

The Crusaders Live at Montreux 2003 Eagle Eye Media 2009 The Jazz Crusaders was formed in 1960 from a group that played together in Houston, Texas. Stix Hooper, Joe Sample and Wilton Felder moved out to form the new band and pulled in Wayne Henderson to complete the basic quartet. ...

Rural Renewal

By THE CRUSADERS

Label: PRA Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Rural Renewal 2. Creepin' 3. Heartland 4. A Healing Comin' On 5. Sing The Song 6. Shotgun House Groove 7. The Territory 8. Greasy Spoon 9. Viva De Funk 10. Lazy Sundays 11. Goin' Home

The Crusaders: Crusaders I

By JOHN BALLON

Most people think that when the Jazz Crusaders dropped the “Jazz" from their name, they also dropped the jazz from their playing. When the band first decided to call themselves the Crusaders, it was only to expand their musical horizons beyond what was narrowly defined as “jazz" at the time. True, the band quickly came to ...