CRUSADERS STREET LIFE 103 AUDIOPHILE LIMITED EDITION RARE HALF SPEED SEALED LP

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CRUSADERS - LIMITED EDITION HALF SPEED TELDEC VINYL CRT - 16000 AUDIOPHILE MASTERPIECE PRESSED ON TELDEC VINYL IMPORTED FROM GERMANY. THIS PRESSING HAS BEEN OUT OF PRINT FOR DECADES AND IS STILL SEALED IN IT'S ORIGINAL PLASTIC WRAP WITH THE GOLD TELDEC STICKER STILL ON THE PLASTIC WRAP. 

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 With the release of IMAGES a lot of changes had come to The Crusaders. They had to do without Larry Carlton, ammong other things and it wasn't all that surprising that the remaining trio of Joe Sample, Wilton Felder and Stix Hooper would challange themselves to further refine their sound. The previous album really showed this could work but this album actually went many steps above that and wound up being one of, if not THE best known album they'd ever made. Well it's hard not to go on and on about the title song on this album. It's just one of those ultra slippery and elastic grooves that allows for so many instrumental interludes that they keep it going for over 11 minutes and the great part is you hardly know it's passed. A then obscure and gifted singer Randy Crawford made her career with her delightful, soulfully funky lead vocals on this song as it goes from a chilly, jazzy piano solo from Sample and onto this high strutting funk groove that jams like you wouldn't believe but has both enough great improvised fender rhodes and sax solos for jazz listeners and enough dancabily and orchestration for the disco crowd. It pretty much gets everybody and ends up being one of the key classics of jazz-funk during the disco era. If that song is your kind of thing the rest of the album keeps going in the same league. True there are no more vocals but it's hard to deny the slippery, midtempo funk of "Rodeo Drive","Carnival Of The Night" or the tight "The Hustler". Even though only one song has a vocal these album actually functions as something of an instrumental tone poem that deals with the idea of the title itself. Being a full on urban funk album the music is sneaky, mysterious, full of surprises and very sensual but also maintains a certain heavy sheen that makes it out as one of their more stylized albums-not as if they didn't do a bad job of that before. "My Lady" and "Night Faces" have a cooler approch to the groove and as always these musicians total awareness of their individual sense of harmonics and rhythm is amazing and anyone can hear it. It's definately one of those often spoken of classics that deserves it's good reputation and caps off what basically amounted up to an incredible musical decade for an incredible group of musicians.

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