Lookin' Ahead

This article is about the album by The Jazz Crusaders. For other uses, see Looking Ahead.
Lookin' Ahead
Studio album by The Jazz Crusaders
Released 1961
Recorded January 7 & 19, 1962
Pacific Jazz Studios, Hollywood, CA
Genre Jazz
Label Pacific Jazz
PJ 43
Producer Richard Bock
The Jazz Crusaders chronology
Freedom Sound
(1961)
Lookin' Ahead
(1962)
The Jazz Crusaders at the Lighthouse
(1962)

Lookin' Ahead is the second album by The Jazz Crusaders recorded in 1962 and released on the Pacific Jazz label.[1][2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]

AllMusic rated the album with 4 stars; in his review, Scott Yanow said: "The tenor-trombone frontline created by Wilton Felder and Henderson, along with the funky yet swinging playing of pianist Joe Sample, drummer Stix Hooper and bassist Jimmy Bond on this hard-to-find set made the group instantly recognizable and surprisingly popular from the start".[3]

Track listing

  1. "Song of India" (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov) - 4:02
  2. "Big Hunk of Funk" (Wilton Felder) - 5:00
  3. "Tonight" (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim) - 2:50
  4. "507 Neyland" (Wayne Henderson) - 3:56
  5. "Till All Ends" (Joe Sample) - 3:33
  6. "Tortoise and the Hare" (Sample) - 4:24
  7. "In a Dream" (Henderson) - 3:20
  8. "Sinnin' Sam" (Stix Hooper) - 4:39
  9. "The Young Rabbits" (Henderson) - 3:35

Personnel

References

  1. Pacific Jazz Records Catalog: 10000/20000 series accessed January 12, 2016
  2. Stix Hooper Discography accessed January 12, 2016
  3. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Freedom Sound – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
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