Jazz Crusaders Way Back Home

Live in Tokyo.
Keyboards: Joe Sample
Tenor Saxophone: Gerald Albright
Trombone: Wayne Henderson
Drums: Moyes Lucas
Bass: Reggie Sullivan

[@nokuzola1sokhela159]

This is peaceful 💃💃who's here in 2023 listening to this lovely music ?

[@ernestblack8384]

🎉

[@jakea3676]

2024

[@aausello26]

I just took it to 2024, thanks❤

[@mbogaba667]

You're late m listening to this in 2024.😅😅😅

[@Chamuel1310]

Been listening to this music my WHOLE LIFE! ❤🎉😂

[@user-yr5sh7xn5b]

In my opinion ........ this is 'smooth jazz' BEFORE, there was a smooth jazz. These 'crusaders', started a smoothness in jazz, that can't be replaced or duplicated.

[@kimluis9582]

My little sister passed away in March for cancer but everytime I hear this song I know she's back home no more cancer no more sickness she's home with the Lord

[@mauricedavis2160]

Yes, she is...🙏✨👌🦉🥰🐲❣️

[@Millicent_Kgaladi]

My taste in music was influenced by my father. Whenever we go out to groove with my siblings, we can't wait to go back home to play this kind of music... the only music we resonate with❤❤❤❤. Thank you dad for teaching us real music😍

[@ArthurHolloway-hr5zt]

Your daddy raised u right

[@charleneshowes2682]

Yes!!😏👍

[@lindawentink2725]

Brilliant!!! Listening to this in candle light, glass of wine, door open with fresh May evening breeze in Durban. Thank you🙏

[@DLorrison]

That's the only way to do it!!

[@antonybrown432]

All love for this video rest in peace Mr Wayne Henderson miss you girl alright and expressly Mr Mister Joe sample St Louis in the house

[@brucewells3092]

Miss these maestros so much but their Music lives on.

[@bennikodisang9245]

....Waaaaaay back home, the year 2023 and counting. Thank you.

[@hyranroman1738]

Oh My Oh My ... Sweet Memories ... What's it with song and Sunday mornings ... Literally brought tears to my eyes after hearing this again after so many years ....

[@billytheweasel]

Moyes Jr was my drum teacher. Great fusion player for Solitaire. He let me do wedding gigs he didn't want... miss those days.

[@rodneysteward1087]

You will never! And, and they said never say never, but I'm we will NEVER EVER hear sweet music like this again,, so glad we have youtube. PEACE for 2021!!

[@gregoryjohnson4478]

This my favorite jazz band ever....if you can’t appreciate the Crusaders....then you need stop listening to music “ great stuff ever”

[@zamomaluka6722]

Gone are those good quiet jazz on Sundays. Where we will listen to Jazz .my grand children looks boring .those were good days.J

[@seankoopa9200]

If you're here because you had an amazing uncle growing up then here's to you 🥂

[@scotchymtshali2002]

I gotta to my visit my uncle bra

[@georgemawethumaxakato8539]

I was baptized in jazz by the crusaders far back in my youth years in 1974, I'm an old man now and I still listen to it. 🇿🇦

[@kenthompson1969]

Got ya beat by ah little. Listened to it for years. Like yourself, I'm an old man now. I've been blessed with the talent of playing the bass guitar, and hook this up many times, gab my bass, & play right along with them. I'll soon be 76 yrs old if I'm blessed to see that day. Love it.

[@bushyphoku6463]

@@kenthompson1969 May Almighty God bless you man with some few more years!!! I'm 65😉

[@sindiletobayo3350]

Were you a part of the 1976 Uprising? I'm asking this because you were already a youth by that time😅😊

[@antoniodavis7934]

No better music than old school, but we came from the same vibe, all music is us in one .

[@jlprice2873]

My Dad loved this song. Our family has the album. Miss ya Daddy….thank you for teaching me to live jazz.

[@rbsprods3200]

Yes, RIP, Wilton Fender, Joe Sample, and Wayne Henderson.. We miss you three so much. Soulful and funky, to the max by an all-star group.

[@mauricedavis2160]

They are never far from us, oh yeah, you'll see them again, the journey has just begun...🙏✨👌🦉🥰🐲❣️

[@Crudeoil794]

IAM A BASS GUITAR PLAYER AND STILL LISTENING TO THE JAZZ CRUSADERES iN JANUARY 2023.I MISS PLAYING MY BASS.IAM GOING TO BUY ANOTHER ONE SOON IF ALLAH WILLING.

[@raymondmoye8430]

Thank you crusaders, for the music for the sole the mind and the heart

[@joannstroud7297]

This song bring me back to life when I am frustrated and angry with people it calm me down in put me on the rite track you go man this is my theme song on my birthday June 2

[@paulmotshome5679]

Every Sunday my van stereo will thumping this tune on repeat as I drive on a 100km sandy terrain back from the cattle post ❤

[@davidwatson6751]

In the late 70's my best friend Hemphill Campbell introduced me to Jazz. Then Frechie Nash introduced me to more. I am very grateful for them. Best FRIENDS truly

[@jakiharris8554]

I've love this song since my youth 16, growing up in Detroit, Michigan, in the Jeffries projects, playing chess, sipping some wine, toking on a few joints, and baby it was on relaxing my mind, body and soul as I dreamed my way out of there. Now I'm 64 and back where the ancestors started GA and farming just like them. Way back home and still listening to the World Famous Jazz Crusaders' timeless music. Thank you Jazz crusaders for the wonderful memories

[@user-sn2rw5iq7c]

Great great I'm a 70s child still listening to the greatest of all times

[@simphiwemaqashalala6983]

Nothing greater than beautiful music, stokvel days, lion lager beer, flosheim shoes

[@kaydamuso3843]

Only 31 now, I was introduced to this song back in 2005, I was to play it in a solo competition playing the Flugal horn for the Cullinan Fieldband. My dad came to watch me rehearse, and that afternoon remains a key memory in my life.

[@Mantaracer]

Music is The Universal language❤️✌️🙏

[@peterlorenz9766]

Very SOUL FULL ❤🙏❤ a treat... a treasure... No words can explain... AWESOME ❤🙏❤

[@reneegraves2756]

Perfection x Perfection = Perfection x I Love You = thank you the Creator + being blessed / by Awesome

[@user-xv4bz3db1l]

I dedicate the song to all the jazz gurus, lovers and to all listening to such never dying jazz masterpieces ever produced

[@memoryleeuw6486]

This song makes me miss my grandma's so much. Sitting by the stoep, eating ice cream and listening to this song on a Sunday. Other times it would in the morni g when my uncles are polishing their shoes outside ,❤❤

[@marlonappolis567]

Music is the fruits of love so play on when a house got music.....😍

[@tebogom8054]

I wash I was old enough back then to take my dad to such festivals. RIP Bra V.... Always missing you. Thanks for imparting such sounds to me.

[@lesedimogotsi216]

Just bought my first soundbar. And I played 'way back home' to my grandfather and man he just went crazy over it. He even told me about their album/song 'Pass The Plate'. That he has been looking for, for the decade plus years. Salute to the Jazzman. Mr T.D.M

[@luciamasuku8777]

You are such a Blessing and a Sweet Inspiration to the world. Keep it up!!

[@rarzoe5466]

I am old now, the father of the two sons.i used to play this song in the early 90s. I used to enjoy it a lot with my friend while we doing grade12. Way back sweet memories

[@antoinettecohill8037]

When I was young my Auntie Leen would pop on albums like this. This was not only her method of teaching me but also enjoying great music with me. I'm glad she left me with a diverse knowledge and great legacy of music. RIP AUNTIE LEEN.... LOVE AND MISS YOU!! 😚😚😚

[@charleneshowes2682]

Yes!!😏👍

[@deloresjones3060]

Simply awesome! Smooth jazz at its finest! Joe Sample, Wayne Henderson, and Mr. Gerald Albright in honor of Mr. Wilton Felder -- they couldn't have gotten a better tenor saxophonist than Gerald! Joe Sample....what can I say....they absolute best on keyboards!! LOVE THIS!

[@rudyjackson2769]

The best jazzmen✅🙏🏾👌🏿

[@nelsonnkobe6447]

They belong to those best jazz bands

[@jimmymorris5708]

Best jazz song ever

[@philangamlana7736]

this Christmas I miss my father..Blues tsili… was your jam..may your soul rest in peace...

[@MrLittlefeat]

Will never -ever be anybody better than the Jazz Crusaders. First heard them when I walked into Discount Records in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Ma. back in the late 60's, changed my life forever. These guy's will alway's be the very best in my book.

[@ericwela2496]

Wow ...wow so old yet so new .nice piece of music

[@leonardtshepomoeng2511]

My dad brought me to this beautiful music❤

[@nokuthula33gazu85]

I'm still enjoying your music thank you.

[@PopGoesNappy]

Got a chance to watch them back in my youngster's days! My late husband Marshall introduced them to me. Thank you, Marshall RIP!

[@blessinglucky5360]

So sweet

[@davidfarmer2788]

i Gerald a. One of my favs . love it luv ur pic 2 😍

[@andilemagengelele8489]

Memories...oh! Sweet Memories! Soweto on a Sunday and klevas, cats who knew how dress, gig and groove. With names like Bra Motsamai, Audio Matlakala...I grew up with jazz around. Yes, I come from a people with rich cultural appreciation.

[@jerryj920]

February 1st: Happy birthday keyboardist Joseph Leslie "Joe" Sample (1939-2014)-co-founder of Jazz Crusaders / The Crusaders. Thank you and God bless. RIP....Thanks for the upload, David. Blessings...

[@earlltaylorjr2729]

1963 Hamtramick Michigan Old Socks New Shoes, New Shoes Old Socks. My Uncle Huey Taylor had me listening to Jazz at night. Way Back Home was my song. I was 9 at the time. I asked my uncle could I lisen to that song on the radio in Youngstown. He smiled and said I dont think so. He went out in the middle of the night and bought this album for me. Ive been listening to every rendition of Way back home and Old. socks when I can.

[@earlltaylorjr2729]

1973 was the year not 63

[@GALAXIGROOVE]

Magnificent...!!!

[@clydedavis3010]

My dad loved this tune and would played that vinly over and over rip arthur d

[@evelynjohnson152]

I grew UP. on this. all the Great Jazz Masters. Dr of Jazz 🎼❤🎼

[@derekkess8643]

I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. The music today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?

[@FidelisMugarisanwa]

Memories from Africa saw you guys in Manchester England 1980s when everyone was still there performing Street Life with Randy Crawford woow..

[@roselejela7356]

This still the best band of all time If we teach our children this music will never die

[@charleneshowes2682]

Yes!!! Well Said 👍

[@josephcookejr5814]

First heard them in 74-75 while stationed at Moody AFB, Valdosta, Ga.Thank you Kevin Wilson,Mobile,Alabama

[@Jo71603]

They go back to the 1950s, they stayed together for a long time, I like their music also!

[@beverlyharris9859]

❤ SENSATIONAL BEAUTIFUL HEAVENLY AWESOME AMAZING WONDERFUL ❤😊!!!!!!

[@kevinmcdowell7540]

Dam life was so SIMPLE than I'm glad i was growing up at this time this is what u call MUSIC PURE MUSIC

[@sindiletobayo3350]

Hhay hhay hhay....the strings,the guitar 🎸,the band, drums,the keyboard..... everything is spot on. I'm loving it

[@Odin_Limaye]

The sax solo is so fucking beautiful; absolutely unbelievable playing from Gerald Albright!

[@larryaguirre1615]

My Mother's Music All The Good Stuff back then.

[@bayoharoldsodipo]

Super emotive taking back to times of untainted joy..... perfect music

[@fletchercynthia42]

Still listen to this in 2020 at 67yrs old thinking about my teenage years and my ex-husband who introduced me to the Jazz Crusaders 🤗

[@antonybrown432]

Man I'm 56 years old from St Louis that sounds still sound good to me rest in peace mr. Joe Sample and the rest of the Crusaders

[@alvinbennett5363]

Same here bro...55yrs old, St. Louis in the house with you 2021, and yes..it still sounds real good, beautiful music indeed and truly talented musicians !!

[@MrDavidBHarris]

63, from St. Louis , brings back those sounds of the 70’s.

[@antonybrown432]

@@MrDavidBHarris I would bring those songs back if I could St Louis in the house

[@leratomokwena7625]

One piece of melody that reminds me of dad and I listening to his Jazzy collection

[@vicrollerson]

My older brothers and sister put me on to jazz in the early 70's especially The Crusaders and I've been listening ever since. But once I found out some of them were members of my wonderful Fraternity Phi Beta Sigma I knew they were one of my favorites. Plus this cut is still 🔥 in 2023. May your memory live on forever as good music never dies 👏🏿🙏🏿💙🤍

[@duanemckamey9655]

I still hear you guys forever!

[@joeyburrell3207]

If there ever was anyone to even attempt to do this song on sax after the fabulous Junior walker did it, would be the fabulous Gerald Albright. Makes perfect sense. Two of the baddest saxophonist ever. 👍👍👍

[@Ybor-ld6uq]

Pure soul. So many good memories of listening to them . Shook Wilton’s hand many years ago. Pleasure of my life. Thanks for posting.

[@jonmacie7581]

All the original Crusaders are gone now except Stixx and Hubert Laws. One of the all time great soul-jazz-funk bands. This song makes me feel nostalgic.

[@pamelagarrett8897]

Love Joe Sample

[@chrisclermont456]

Thanks and rest in peace, Joe Sample, Wayne Henderson, and Wilton Felder!!

[@BernardRangel]

Simply amazing 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 love the CRUSADERS for many years.

[@CarlosCastillo-ps4cq]

The kind of performance that makes you a jazz master

[@LatinBellyGoddess]

My first great jazz encounter was with The Crusaders music in 1973 - my uncle still has their LP’s and a great jazz collection. The Crusaders would become the epicenter of jazz music for me.... so melodious so complete so smooth Their music has always made sense for me 💖🙏🏻🌟☀️😘

[@floridatrails]

After all these years, I still listen, and thank the Lord for such soul and talent..

[@joshtshabalala1285]

When I was young my uncle Mathews would pop on albums like this. This was not only his method of teaching me but also enjoying great music with me.

[@philiphorn-botha5502]

Ukubingelela okuvela eDoha Qatar

[@belindamorris7600]

I live n Stockton , 209, I just Love D Jazz Crusaders, at that time,I was teenager, now, I'm. N early 60, & from H- town,just Great. memory, Action. Jackson, PESCE

[@charleneshowes2682]

Yes!! Well Said 👍

[@antoniodavis7934]

I remember my mom would play the ole 45 way back home. I never forgot . We need ole school, big momma and all.

[@paulturner6334]

I first heard these cats from houston,tx they could all play their asses off. The harmony btw sax and trombone was unique. Thank you for the respect

[@evolution405]

I Wish for such a JUICY JAZZY - TREAT

[@michaelthompson6452]

This song brings back so many memories. The ancestral roots of my soul go way back home

[@ntombikayisekhuzwayo7046]

For sure my brothers.

[@ericbaloyi6500]

Joe Sample was great,he also has a stint with Charles Lloyd after he heard him playing like a man possessed on his tenor sax.

[@trevorfigueroa417]

Great music never dies ..only gets greater...play on with the inner spirits

[@mduduzizwane6598]

In love with this song,it takes me to my Sunday job "that's Sunday session 🎛️🎧🎤

[@johnfnash6910]

I can't get enough of listening to such a very beautiful soulful song. Great job by Joe Sample, for I have missed his genius playing the piano. Wayne Henderson is great as always on trombone. Gerald Albright has been around and did a great job filling some really big shoes. I haven't shared this performance with one single person without having all of them saying nothing short of a beautiful song/cut. I kid you all not, I listen and watch this performance daily as it touches my soul and heart with joy. I mainly listen to it right before bedtime. May you continue to rest in peace, brother Joe Sample...✌🏾✊🏾❤🙏🏾

[@garyclaytor7214]

The Crusaders were always one of my favorite bands. All the original members were master musicians. Having Gerald Albright on reeds was perfect.

[@randywilliams7114]

Amen

[@Nya48506]

No way!!! This is terrible. No Stix or Felder.

[@cordeliakates6044]

Randy Williams always missing them every day. In fact play them every day from start to now!!

[@charleneshowes2682]

Yes!! Well Said 👍

[@gaginho]

I listen to this song all day in almost all possible versions, I listened to other songs by other artists, and I realized that there will no longer be such great performers and authors. The world of music has changed drastically.

[@michaelkirkland1929]

Very real talk, but there are still Real Good players out there, but the Music industry is preoccupied with Beyonce, kanye west, nicki minaj, cardi b, and folks who know nothing about MUSIC.

[@luzukomafenuka8747]

Legend

[@Yazid728Uniqueart]

I know that's right! But all those greats are not gone because I have a strong feeling that God received them with open arms and the most brightest smile any of us could ever imagine. Playing those Heavenly Songs!

[@michaelwilliams7601]

That is so true! Folks that don't nothing about music are in the lime light! The Crusaders are some if the best musicians w

[@1980JPA]

The world of record label music has changed. The same quality of music is available and being made by the ton.

[@tafimutekwe2855]

Anthemic!!!!!!! A great delivery by The Mighty Crusaders of a Wilton Felder standard. Paul Desmond gave us Take Five and Wilton Felder gave us Way back Home. Timeless classics for both Brubeck Quartet and Jazz Crusaders.

[@jd2616]

My favorite sax player Gerald Albright jamming with my favorite band The Crusaders, what a treat..

[@charleneshowes2682]

Yes!!! Well Said 👍

[@AJA1977PERFECTION]

It simply DOES NOT get ant better than this ladies and gentlemen! Kick back and inhale this for what it is! Peter Neary, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

[@andrehausersr5391]

No other group no other group thank you

[@1reelman2]

This takes me back to my college days. So many great memories. Their music will live on forever.

[@charleneshowes2682]

Yes!! Well Said 👍

[@leroylinks8269]

I don't have no story about me reminiscing on a childhood featuring this song.... I just love jazz... That's it

[@MillicentStClaire]

This was part of the soundtrack of my childhood. Even in the midst of change and turmoil. I believe music helped keep me sane and connected to my feeling body.

[@derekkess8643]

I sure do miss the 70s and 80s. The music today is not even the same. Sometimes I wish I could find a time machine and go back in time. Life was much easier and everyone enjoyed life! Is this your favorite song?

[@lindatucker6592]

🤎🤎🤎🤎😛

[@denniswage9748]

Ditto to Stuff

[@knoxman642]

I hear you.

[@thandiqinga7620]

Guys this is it in the 80s I miss 😢 the guy who introduced me to this music 🎶 Scara Qinga continue to rest

[@chaplainmattsanders4884]

Wilton Felder-fantastic player, first heard him at the Montreaux JazzFestival, 1982. Gerald does a beautiful job here in homage to the inimitable Mr. Felder.

[@jerryferko8309]

frank , u could not say it any better , these guys were soooooooo good , sad so many are gone , way sad

[@lindelwakeikelame4061]

Soweto back then. Early Sunday morning jams. My Dad playing this in the background, ke freyfa stoep se red ka brush le pantihose tsakgale...the coal stove burning, getting ready for Sunday seven colours lunch....Eish!!! Bona!

[@rachelvilakazi9203]

Good memories indeed never die

[@chippandenga6722]

Stoop sa ko pele or ko morago? Ka Sunbeam polish. 😀😃😃 i would be washing my uncle's car or polishing those shoes. Those were the days. In the middle of apartheid but we still enjoyed the music.Thanks for the music, Crusaders. Rest in power💪🏾

[@pepeblck2477]

keya dumela

[@michaelleonbrownjr.2719]

👍😃👍These brothers are doing their thang!!!! I ♥️ this piece....

[@ervingdixon5271]

.mj.m

[@switz11]

I was able to see them live thee times. One of my favorite groups.

[@oldschoolruler]

The Live at the Roxy in LA album, "SCRATCH" with this cut is the best. It's been in my rotation since 1974. Those Southern Knights...awesome.

[@ernestmalonkane8668]

I remember my uncles (God rest their Souls in Peace). Those were the days when men would put on polished shiny Florsheim shoes, Brentwood trousers, Silky shirts and Fedora Manhattan hats. Those were the days when jazz music was a staple of township entertainment. When apartheid kept black people in enclosures of socio-economic limits, black people had music and music kept us strong. Music gave us hope, music gave us peace, music gave us strength, music gave us fun times, music kept us together and those were the good old days, the days when black people had nothing but we had everything. Gone are the good old days.

[@sizamoya588]

Followed Jazz from 1963 till for ever

[@02westham1]

Just fantastic ....that's how I roll....

[@lesliemanuel6971]

Way back !!! Timeless,play on Crusaders✌️

[@jjOnes10mine]

The Crusaders are timeless...They bring me way back home...

[@jjOnes10mine]

One more comment,of Magic...The Crusaders...

[@leealvinpurifoy9344]

When they removed jazz fr

[@marjoriemcnary4310]

@@leealvinpurifoy9344 Yup I