The Crusaders - Full Concert - 08/15/87 - Newport Jazz Festival (OFFICIAL)

The Crusaders - Full Concert
Recorded Live: 8/15/1987 - Newport Jazz Festival (Newport, RI)
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Setlist:
0:00:00 - Mischievous Ways
0:06:55 - Chain Reaction
0:13:51 - Blue Ballet
0:22:45 - Carmel
0:30:08 - Street Life
0:38:17 - The Good Times
0:47:03 - Way It Goes
0:52:51 - Unknown
0:56:46 - Unknown

[@psychog8014]

These guys are jazz legends. May God bless them all. Peace to my dad Eddie Davis who is on trumpet playing his heart out in this video. Stay strong pop !

[@tunefultonyjohnson4100]

+PSYCHO G -- Q :: -- Is Eddie "Will" Davis really your father?? - Eddie Davis certainly plays brilliantly in this concert, he is an absolute joy to listen to, as of course are all the other guys.... I checked some of Eddie's credentials, he has been playing trumpet for 30-odd years, and he has played with some really big-name artistes and bands...

[@jeanedwards2497]

Big Big respect to ur wonderful father for given me the best music ever ....take care and thank you for sharing.....

[@gangoffour6690]

Eddie Davis is really your dad ? Way cool man 👍

[@huntertheshit]

Only right to wish him a happy fathers day

[@paulabouffard4697]

your dad is a monster player ,great

[@wyndhleodumegwu253]

To the families, relatives and friends of Joe Sample and George - great human beings and musicians - our heart-felt condolences and profoundest sympathy. May their Soul-Spirit rest in peace .Gone physically; forever here spiritually! (And to those of Horace Silver, a man of parallel temperament and musicianship.)

[@carlhavens6021]

A lot of my friends do not know their music. I was introduced to there music when I was in my senior year in high school 1964. I became a fan and followed their music picking up several of their work which I still have on vinyl. Rest in Peace Brothers Joe Sample, Wayne Henderson and Wilton Felder. THANK YOU FOR THAT FUNKY SOUND.

[@BSaxTop]

R.I.P. to Wilton Felder... The Texas Twister. Such an inspiration to me to be a better saxman. He left so much music on his own.... both on sax and bass. A great loss. Rest In Paradise.

[@jeanclaudebossonney7520]

As time goes by, we loose great musicians who rocked our ears for so long. We've never met them but consider them as close friends. Thank you messrs Sample and Felder. May you rest in peace. Your music will survive you for long.

[@johnareece9619]

Let the good times roll.

[@stevenadah8205]

Sweet music by one of the greatest ensemble that ever came to earth.

[@nappinfree2684]

Enjoying this Live recording in Nov 2020 in the midst of Covid-19 when all Live music shows have been cancelled. This music feeds my soul! So grateful for the gift the Jazz Crusaders left behind. My prayers to all the musicians unable to perform live right now. May we Never take this experience for granted again.

[@halwarner3326]

i BELIEVE THE CRUSADERS ARE ARGUABLY THE BEST JAZZ BAND EVER.

[@chaplainmattsanders4884]

Agreed!

[@vincesoder3284]

debatable but still one of the greats! :)

[@sulevisydanmaa9981]

@halwarner3326 A L L ranking is childish

[@WillJones-ip3tw]

I was 14 years old in 1974 and bumped into these guys and absorbed the positive vibe with my whole heart. The Crusaders are a national treasure and just the very hardest working and the very best musicians. They pumped out so much quality art it is difficult to quantify. Icons of what it means to be a working musicians and how to create a meaningful impact on culture. Total OG's. They touched so many people and left a legacy of pure joy.

[@jeffthomas6859]

The members of both The Jazz Crusaders and all versions of this current Crusaders band are the best musicians playing jazz, blues, funk and soul on our small planet. Since the 60's in Houston, Joe, Wilton, Stix, Wayne and Larry with all of the best guys and girls playing the timeless great jazz music. God Bless all of the Crusaders here and in Heaven. Peace and Love.

[@87SNOOKIE]

Jazz at its best and one of the best jazz ensemble ever. Love all their music but my favorites are Uh Huh, Keep that same old feeling, Inherit the Wind, and Street Lights w/ Randy Crawford . Met Stix Hooper's younger brother Sam Hooper in boot camp while serving in the Marine Corps back in 1967 and still good friends today. Thanks and a shout out to all you Jazz lovers out there whoever you may be !

[@williewilson7375]

Truely a pleasure growing up listening to their music.

[@pepperwilliams4428]

Wilton's tone was huge like Houston Pearson, Gene Ammons. Great player! He gave me a mouthpiece years ago when I use to visit his house I still have it, a "Berg Larsen"). The trumpet player, Eddie Davis, sounds a lot like Freddie Hubbard. And of course, Nancy Wilson is simply "MAGIC".

[@myklmusic]

The Crusaders made my days in Hayward/Oakland, California back in the early '70's that much better.

[@stevethompson9996]

myklmusic also from hayward and grew up on this

[@normo2963]

thanks for posting...crusaders was one of my first LP album,.fond memories inspite of the corona virus..salamat po

[@mt9054]

One of my most memorable moments..my friend Rex Clement had a killer stereo...was with some guys in his room and he put on Stomp and Buck Dance from Southern Comfort...it was yes...epic...😀🔥

[@SWhit62030]

Thank you for sharing this. I saw The Crusaders when I went to Newport for the first time. I spent the weekend there, and can't wait to return this summer.

[@ursulaa8393]

Sherman Whitman marvin gaye

[@jjOnes10mine]

The Crusaders gave us their best every time they performed....I wish I had gotten to see them perform live, that would have completed one of the things on my bucket list, but this will have to do.

[@mt9054]

I did...once...Concord California...phenomenal...same bill with Modern Jazz Quartet...👍🏻

[@oldschoolruler]

I saw the original lineup at Carleton College in 1978... 'epic' is too puny a word.

[@5missen]

RIP the great Nancy Wilson, would have loved to hear her rendition of "Streetlife" here

[@RaulVeldhuizen]

Come on... Streetlife that wasn't the Crusaders Hope it gave them a lot of money it also was the beginning of the end. Which, of course, always comes. Glad we have this!! And all the beautiful albums from 1962-1979

[@M1st3rTee]

@@RaulVeldhuizenwhat?! We’re just gonna pass up Last Call, Soul Shadows, the Royal Jam, Standing Tall album? Uhmm sorry very hard disagree, Streetlife was not the end.

[@culturalconfederacy782]

Free As The Wind, one of my favorite Crusaders albums. Can't forget Streetlife either. One of the best tracks on Free As The Wind: Sweet and Sour. As for Joe Sample's solo albums The Hunter is defintely one to add to your collection.

[@hutyfa]

i love this trumpeter-! very good sound.

[@TheFunkyKingston]

RIP Mr Wilton Felder...thanks for all this precious music!!! Gone but not forgotten!!

[@Rocket_scientist_88]

I am so heartbroken to,learn that Wilton Felder passed away... What a shining talent. The world was a better place with him in it.

[@TheFunkyKingston]

Barry Cantin That's for sure dear Barry...

[@Kassiusday]

TheFunkyKingston Wilton Felder fantastic musician has played the bass in "MERRY GO Round" ( album Image 1978 ! ) try to retrieve it with no succes any link ? ( not in i tune ) YOU tub video not available .. thanks !!

[@TheFunkyKingston]

Kassius KLAY Oh yes he was a bass player...this album was it with the Crusaders? I ll search for it through the web! Peace bro!

[@Kassiusday]

TheFunkyKingston Hi Just after wrote you , got lucky !! I found it in daily motion , a live of MERRY GO ROUND , I lost that Lp by moving houses!!! ... WF was great bass player too ., I did play that line of bass... another great song of crusaders in that album is "Fairy tales" !! True fairy tales funky jazz music !!! God bless ..

[@morganalvarez5925]

Really complicated music but they make it sound so easy my favourite jazz funk band their music is timeless

[@salsamanwt]

thanks for the shows !!! amazing !!!

[@SwitchinLabels]

I have been a (Jazz) Crusader fan since "The Thing". If I can only own one collection it's the Crusaders.

[@zubimarta]

I´ve seen this same band, some days before playing in detroit , I´m so happy to find and see this again than you for sharing, brings me very good moments

[@konstantinavramenko7176]

Fantastic concert!!! Thank you very much!!!

[@hervedelagrange2661]

Vous n'ètes plus là ou vous étiez mais vous ètes partout la ou je suis. RIP Brothers.

[@Microtonal_Cats]

Love it! I saw these cats play Fredonia college, SUNY, in probably '75 or '76. Amazing show.

[@IbrahimAli-iq8ut]

I still remember 1983 when we learned to listening to jazz the crusaders jazz was what we knew .It is legendary.

[@godwinbeene8727]

thanks guys, brings me the memory of my college days...yea.

[@JazzFunkNobby1964]

35 years later in 2022 I'm remembering the music 'Carmel' which I never knew the name of back then. WOW... Did anybody else perform this choon?

[@whalerj182]

Thanks man!!

[@stardestiny59]

I'm so happy to see how these kids have been grown! Congratulations my boys keep on going!!!

[@lent7156]

Nancy Wilson G.O.A.T. (GREATEST OF ALL TIME)

[@123catbox]

The next to last tune is Wilton Felder's "Covert Action" off the Images album. The last one escapes me. The younger girl singing "Street Life" is Reichii Guillory, who was fresh off singing a couple of songs on Wilton's then-new album Love Is a Rush.

[@patrickspino5941]

Thank you for this information, 123!

[@William_sJazzLoft]

Eddie Davis does a splendid job of filling out that brass chair vacated by the late Wayne Henderson (r.i.p.)

[@haroldcarson4663]

met the Crusaders in Kansas City back in the70s those southern knights was the jam album of the summer they were very gracious to me I was a teen knew nothing about jazz when I got back home to Louisville I bought task I swear I played it for a solid 2 was these guys introduced me to jazz and I have never been the same

[@kentarchie5945]

Kent archie the best ever way back home always love you guys

[@JBC321]

I discovered The Crusaders by accident many, many years ago by reading the liner notes of Steely Dan albums. Who are these guys who play on Steely Dan? After a little research, I bought Free As The Wind and the rest is history. The music doesn't get any better.

[@BeansMaskSheen]

2 original members.. Absolute perfect quality.. this is the shit you want.

[@dealsbetweenfriends]

remember.. Larry Carlton. stix Hooper. Joe S. Wilton Felder, and...! Loved them ..!

[@gloryagardner3682]

Yes The OG’S

[@Lee-tq4si]

The band that turned me on to jazz fusion when I first heard “Street Life” in 79. Joe Sample, Wilton Felder, Wayne Henderson and Stix Hooper back in the day. Throw in Larry Carlton for good measure. Nancy Wilson was in her mid 70s when this concert was filmed, and she looks and sounds beautiful!

[@Ravfunnye]

Saw them several times" they were great! saw them with Larry Carlton; also Stix Hooper. They were funky and Sample was a beast on Keyboards! Check out Crusader"s backing Bill Withers in Zaire at Ali, Forman fight! awesome!

[@markstafford6290]

Just love them, nearly 30 years old this sounds so good !

[@wyndhleodumegwu253]

Wilton is an almost unsung connoisseur sax master who knows his craft. His masculine sound is individualized with unique pathos and beauty. Ronny laws has adopted his sound, with a little soul and tactile restraint.Wilton played bass on Ronny's first (or second) album.

[@JazzKeyboardist1]

cool,, which sax has a feminine sound and please Kenny G eat a snickers

[@tunefultonyjohnson4100]

JazzKeyboardist1 Q: Which sax has a feminine sound?? -- Smartass answer: Any of them, if played by a female!! -- There are plenty of good female sax players out there, and here are just a few for starters: Candy Dulfer, Chika Asamoto, Jessy J, Saori Yano, Pamela Williams, Layla Angulo, Mindi Abair, Mihoko Abe, Kaori Kobayashi, Talita Summer ... and the band played on...... Here's a Question for you, dude: What's the difference between sax appeal and sex appeal??

[@JazzKeyboardist1]

tunefultony johnson.. I don't want the mother of my children to put anything up my ass? lol top that hi

[@JazzKeyboardist1]

hi nice list of female excellent players,, I am proud of the females that played in front of me

[@tunefultonyjohnson4100]

--Especially a big baritone saxophone....?? :)

[@chidrummer]

A thrill to still hear some of those patented Jackson 5 licks from David T Walker. Nancy Wilson though!!!!

[@ATOMOCDOG]

thanks for upload

[@TheFunkyKingston]

Astonishing...divine performance!

[@wandahicks9509]

😘 one of my favorite jazz groups, like he said back in Da day. Classic jazz

[@japeraYokohama]

Crusaders music give me the power to live. Nancy's song too. I appericiate Mr.Sample ,Mr. Felder amd Mr.Fooper

[@paulmenefield5535]

John steven son son

[@tunefultonyjohnson4100]

+japeraYokohama -- Appreciate.. Stix Hooper on drums... :)

[@prokofievchambers8603]

japeraYokohama Dearest Nancy. I had all but forgotten about her. Such dignity and grace. She was so wonderful. Now our children listen to Beyoncé and the like. How far we have fallen. Thank God for this video.

[@gregoryburton1241]

Saw them in 2004, it was the last concert my "late" wife saw before starting chemo. Best concert ever! Ray Parker Jr. and Randy Crawford were on stage with them. I've seen dozens of singers and Randy was the best I ever heard live! RIP Joe Sample , Wilton Felder and Angela "Candy" Burton.

[@percycliffordpayne3283]

One of My Favorite groups as they say, "back in da day" while attending Southern Illinois Univ.,(Carbondale). They were then, "The Jazz Crusaders"... Great smooth Jazz!!! Really Nice Movements too! Also Much Thanks Mr.Wilton Felder for the Great work... R.I.P. & God's Peace to his family... -The Lord's PCP

[@larrywilliams1517]

Thank God for real music and the artist that performs it for us.

[@jermainelong1843]

Incredible group!! Can't believe I didn't get into them ages ago!!😎

[@tomsortore8301]

That gorgeous woman just oozes class and grace what a treat the crusaders are!! God must giggle when they play

[@thomaspenn2475]

So much talent all in one super group

[@andyhardy1179]

The last two tracks are It's In E & Get Down With It. Very enjoyable , thanks.

[@beentubin2693]

Covert Action from the album Images is in there also.

[@charliep2059]

Some great jazz - by great jazz musicians. And a bonus at about 48:00 - Nancy Wilson no less!

[@draytoncannon7898]

Wilton was so distinctive that a few notes identified him!

[@hutyfa]

goodbye WILTON. Thanks for this concert

[@galinamekhnetsova2160]

Красота!!

[@clivelange7879]

Oh Yeah..Simply magical was The Crusaders..Love it

[@joemartinez7771]

Thanks

[@danroley7850]

still a few new jazz musicians coming on the scene. the classic crusaders jazz will be carried forward..into yr 3000.

[@KevinMichaelCallihan]

All are respected while I have seen Joe Sample several times in a beautiful outdoor umm, shell or whatever, but a reflective way to direct the sound and not let the wind impact too much on the players just North of Cincinnati, Ohio USA. It is a long-time venue where anybody that is anyone's favorite comes during the year. A very busy place for good jazz. Of course being a boater, this venue is superb. I wish by closing my eyes and imagine if she was in my arms on a boat listening to some good jazz is would be heavenly. just one problem: no boat and lady yet!

[@Beholderz]

Good stuff!

[@jimmiegarcia492]

I love Nancy Wilson vocal.!! A very classy lady.!

[@William_sJazzLoft]

Don't know anything about Eddie Davis. But, it was good that they could get him to round out that traditional brass-woodwind front end that's found in both mainstream and contemporary jazz.

[@oiler4u]

Outstanding!

[@playonkorg]

oooooooo that trumpet solo....tjakaaaaa , it cuts metal

[@alrafuck]

gracias por subir videos de crusaders

[@viafirenze]

Genial!!!

[@RitmoAntiyanoDiferente1]

long life the crusaders R.I.P Joe Sample,and long live Wilton Felder the greatest jazz band ever!!! thnx for this video.

[@kjones5723]

Every time we lose a Joe Sample, or an Eric Gale, or a Grover Washington, Jr., a Stanley Turrentine, a Freddie Hubbard, or a Richard Tee or a Harvey Mason ..... just a little sliver of my musical soul is doused. Those slivers represents spaces in time, spent with people who were and are special .....

[@Kassiusday]

K Jones question : do we have today others as good who have replaced them so far ?? , those one were solid musicians and very talented ( Eric gale , Hubbard etc...) does this crazy world still allow to " disclose "such talents ? As before ... ? Who , ( where )is the new Nina Simone ...?

[@pthompson108]

Try Snarky Puppy my friend, you won't believe the talent there.

[@TheGuitlicker]

Harvey Mason isnt dead.....man; the dude abides.

[@Wally-H]

There have been some very good 'acid jazz' bands keeping this genre alive. Obviously they don't have the same profile as these guys but their talent is excellent. try the James Taylor Quartet, and Dutch Band the Jazzinvaders for example. Mezzoforte are still going strong and you should definitely check them out as they come from a slightly newer generation than these guys and aren't in their dotage yet LOL. Obviously Jamiroquai, Brand New Heavies and Incognito also fly the flag. it is perhaps easy to dismiss these guys as 'johnny come lately' characters but don't assume they aren't as good as musicians because trust me, it isn't the case.

[@prokofievchambers8603]

K Jones the rappers and auto tone imposters own pop now. These people no nothing about real music.

[@makhalimampelwane9862]

I enjoyed foods for thoughts! Bravo

[@psychog8014]

Tunefultony Johnson Eddie Will Davis is my pops. He is doing great right now and I'm trying to get him to work with me on some of my music. He inspires me to take my career to the next level. My time is coming soon and when it does I'm taking Jazz and Hip hop and combining those elements together to bring a whole different sound to touch people's soul in a way it has never been done before.

[@ricardolobo6952]

Keep me posted.......I would love to follow what certainly will and should be an exciting, interesting career. With mentors like you have, it is only WOW!

[@rodneybanks128]

Yes Indeed Eddie Davis is The Best I Ever Heard this Concert is my Everday Music

[@sohrabjabari5979]

I love you crusaders

[@hannahczerny5065]

I´m not a jazz listener and usually most jazz music sounds pretty much the same to me - but the music of these guys definitely left a lasting mark in my mind. The guest singers sound amazing, too!

[@jeromeprice3552]

Find a way to keep listening to them. It will take you years. Your ears will enjoy it.

[@fweddyfwintsone4491]

What can I say but WOW!....what talent, artistry and excellence. I praise God for their wonderful contribution to music and to the world.

[@jaybird7423]

Great music

[@lennonforever40]

So full of semen. Hearty heart man-fire. Just buckets of semen right here

[@michellelebeau6200]

Was there 🥰

[@sergiomg9671]

amazing

[@wyndhleodumegwu253]

Joe Sample, Wilton Felder and George Duke, surrealistically talented artists, had involuntarily departed from our physical Earth plane far too soon; but, fortunately enough for us, they did not before they bequeathed to us - musically asserting - a library of stellar magnificence. Now, having ascended into the spiritual realm of profound quietude and tranquility, each will be greeted thus by Almighty God, with His angelic hosts: " This is My beloved (musical) son in whom I am well-pleased!". May the Spirit-Soul of each artist be accorded infinite and perpetual Rest in the sacred and sanctified bosom of Providence which dwelleth in the celestial sphere.

[@soulboysmithy]

That's Soul Heaven then!!!

[@prokofievchambers8603]

wyndhl eodumegwu very well said, sir. If I were not in my cups, I would have been equally effusive of the joy of this music.

[@luisrojas3173]

Press play & let The Crusaders take you away!

[@ronojoysen5324]

Hugely greater institution than Harvard or Oxford and so on - a total education of the humane kind. Thank you, Crusaders, for decades of love, joy and insight.

[@raymondmoye8430]

Yes, yes, and yes

[@DRUMMINMOFO1]

Amazing! Scott Peaker was on Fire!

[@scottymacization]

He always is. I saw him perform often in Baltimore at the now defunct Park Plaza. He's great.

[@bluesmonkey4463]

LOVE THESE GUYS ! ABSOLUTE LEGENDS !!!!

[@sulevisydanmaa9981]

@48'09" NANCY WILSON pulls a slow soul ballad @ a major jazz fest. She was an interdisciplinarian, a song stylist - as she put it herself sev x in i-views. Records remain, people go ..

[@sitarnut]

In one second it's already a groove......

[@derricklyons3079]

Legendary

[@signeknapp6650]

Legends....

[@dhthehitman]

Long live Joe Sample...Long live The Crusaders

[@tomswill9189]

Very nice

[@jimhill9986]

Great Great trumpet player. A serious musician.

[@nora1172]

🔥🎶🎹❤️Just Heaven

[@Esqj]

Kicking myself for never seeing them as a band, but I did see MIsters Felder and Sample just before both passed (as well as MIsters Duke and Jarreau).

[@tiningo]

El mejor Funk/Jazz/Blues!!! Eternos The Crusaders

[@wyndhleodumegwu253]

Classically progressive and 'funkily' Smooth is the Jazz Crusaders. Rickie does an emotional interpretation of Street Life; I felt I was experiencing the ups-and-downs of street-life as she sang so soulfully and spiritually. Both Randy Crawford and Lalah Hathaway have done superbly as well. Joe Sample is -is- at his masterful best. He himself and George Duke are - yes! - are as skillful as the much- vaunted Amanda 'Chick' Corea and Herbie Hancock. Nancy Wilson brings to mind her musical 'off-springs' in the persons of Phyllis Hyman (RIP) and Anita Baker. An earlier Nancy Wilson herself reminisces Diana Washington. Displaying unselfish leadership, Wilton Felder, like Miles Davis, permits his men to showcase their individual abilities without dictatorial intrusion. Thus, the trumpeter does sing superfluously and well indeed. Wilton Felder is true Jazz, within or without a rhythmic jazz-context, a la Stanley Turrentine. Ernest Watts (tenor and alto saxes), Wilton Felder, Ed Calle, Bob Berg, Michael Breaker, Joe Levano, Joshua Redman (sp.), Gary Meeks and Brandon Fields are 'alumni' of John William Coltrane, the father of modern tenor saxophone-ship, so to say. After more than 30 years to date of this in vivo performance, the Band sounds futuristically fresh despite the absence of trombonist Fred Wesley. Many stars to the trumpeter whose name has eluded me. Thanks for posting!

[@carloscesarramos2640]

Grate....