If songs like "Scratch" come to mind when you think of the Jazz Crusaders, you are in for a real treat with this six-CD set. Originally including "jazz" in their moniker, Wayne Henderson (trombone), ...

With the esteemed jazz/funk/fusion band the Crusaders as a guide, one could trace the rise and fall of commercial jazz in all in many of its permutations. The core group that is the most recognized ...

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 ...

In most cities, finding the hottest jazz is a matter of knowing which club to go to. But it’s not so simple in Cape Town. Although this city boasts its own jazz genre (the lilting, highly ...

Veteran jazz pianist Joe Sample, a founder and staple of the much-lauded innovative combo the (Jazz) Crusaders for four decades, takes a long overdue solo turn with a six-day gig at Gotham's Blue Note ...

Since his childhood in the 1940s, Nesbert Hooper sat behind a drum kit with a pair of wooden implements that lent him his nickname. Stix Hooper has played on all manner of sessions: He was part of the ...

The Jazz Crusaders concert scheduled for Sept. 18 at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center is postponed. St. Louis Post-Dispatch music critic Jasmine Osby breaks down the 25 best songs ...

Pianist and composer Joe Sample, a founding member of the genre-crossing Jazz Crusaders who helped pioneer the electronic jazz-funk fusion style, has died. He was 75. Sample died of complications due ...

Since 2018, the Chicago Soul Jazz Collective has made waves in town by resurrecting the stylish grooves of the postbop era, which began in the late 1950s—nationally, the sound was shaped by the likes ...