The Crusaders - Free As The Wind (SHM-CD) (1977/2023)
The Crusaders - Free As The Wind (SHM-CD) (1977/2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 241 MB MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 98 MB
42:49 | Jazz-Funk, Soul-Jazz | Label: MCA Records
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 241 MB MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 98 MB
42:49 | Jazz-Funk, Soul-Jazz | Label: MCA Records
There's a terrific reason why the triple-CD Crusaders retrospective The Golden Years included six of Free as the Wind's eight tracks – the material. Indeed, side one of the LP version may be the strongest single side of original tunes that the band ever put together. It opens with Joe Sample's driving, tense title cut, and flows flawlessly through Stix Hooper's subtly funky "I Felt the Love," Pops Popswell's infectiously finger-popping "The Way We Was" (a high point in the Crusaders' groove collection), and Larry Carlton's steamy vehicle for Wilton Felder, "Nite Crawler." Even the two tracks that the box set left out – the galvanic "Feel It," driven by Sample's clavinet and Hooper's tom-toms, and "River Rat" – are as funky as you can stand it. And from out of the blue, Sample concludes the album with a lovely, wistful tune that may have become a standard, "It Happens Everyday." When the material is this good, everything falls into place from there; the grooves are deeper, the soloing by all five Crusaders is more melodic and probing, and while Sample provides a few brass and string arrangements, this is just harmless decoration, neither a necessity nor a hindrance. This would be the Crusaders' high-water mark in the post-Wayne Henderson years, and it can stand tall with anything they've done.
Review by Richard S. Ginell
Tracklist
[6:16] 01. The Crusaders - Free As The Wind
[5:08] 02. The Crusaders - I Felt The Love
[5:23] 03. The Crusaders - The Way We Was
[4:45] 04. The Crusaders - Nite Crawler
[4:16] 05. The Crusaders - Feel It
[8:55] 06. The Crusaders - Sweet n' Sour
[2:29] 07. The Crusaders - River Rat
[5:41] 08. The Crusaders - It Happens Everyday
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The Crusaders / Free as the Wind
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EAC extraction logfile from 18. July 2023, 21:18
The Crusaders / Free as the Wind
Used drive : ATAPI iHAS324 B Adapter: 1 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
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Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
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Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
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