Jazz album: “Crusaders 1” by Crusaders, released in 1972 on MCA Records. Explore the largest collection of jazz recordings @ All About Jazz. ... Sign In Up Donate. Home » Jazz Musicians » Crusaders ...

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 ...

Jazz musician Stix Hooper first met broadcaster Saul Levine in the ’60s when Hooper was the drummer in the Crusaders, and Levine owned and operated KBCA (105.1 FM), the top jazz radio station in ...

The Crusaders started out as a Houston soul-jazz combo in the '50s and '60s, but they found their true calling in the '70s as an R&B instrumental group along the lines of the Meters and Booker T ...

The Jazz Crusaders recorded prolifically in the '60s. The members had an ear turned to music outside of jazz. In 1968, they recorded an instrumental take on the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby.” ...

This month, he is adding radio show host to his hat collection with a Jazz program “Lay it On the Line,” its title lifted from a song Hooper wrote for the Crusaders’ album Unsung Heroes ...