Street Life (The Crusaders album)

Street Life
Studio album by The Crusaders
Released	1979
Recorded	1979
Genre	Jazz-funk
Length	39:21
Label	MCA
Producer	Wilton Felder, Stix Hooper and Joe Sample
The Crusaders chronology
Images (1978) Street Life (1979) Rhapsody and Blues (1980)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[2]

Street Life is a studio album by the American jazz band The Crusaders. It was a top 20 album on three Billboard charts and represents the peak of the band's commercial popularity. The title track, featuring singer Randy Crawford, was a Top 40 pop single (#36) and became the group's most successful entry on the soul chart (#17).^[3] It was #5 on the UK charts.. "Street Life" also hit the disco chart, peaking at #75,^[4] and was re-recorded by Doc Severinsen with Crawford reprising her vocal for the opening sequence of the noir crime drama Sharky's Machine, directed by Burt Reynolds in 1981. This faster paced and more powerful version was also featured in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown, released in 1997. The song is also featured in Grand Theft Auto V.

Track listing

1. "Street Life" (Will Jennings, Joe Sample) – 11:18
2. "My Lady" (Wilton Felder) – 6:43
3. "Rodeo Drive (High Steppin')" (Sample) – 4:28
4. "Carnival of the Night" (Felder) – 6:24
5. "The Hustler" (Stix Hooper) – 5:18
6. "Night Faces" (Sample) – 5:10

Personnel

• Arthur Adams - guitar
• Roland Bautista - guitar
• Oscar Brashear - trumpet
• Garnett Brown - trombone
• Randy Crawford - vocals
• Paulinho Da Costa - percussion
• Wilton Felder - saxophone, bass guitar, producer
• Barry Finnerty - guitar
• William Green - saxophone
• Stix Hooper - drums, producer
• Paul Jackson Jr. - guitar
• James Jamerson - bass guitar
• Alphonso Johnson - bass guitar
• Robert O'Bryan - trumpet
• Jerome Richardson - saxophone
• Billy Rogers - guitar
• Joe Sample - keyboards, producer

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1979	Black Albums	3
1979	Jazz Albums	1
1979	Pop Albums	18

Singles - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Single	Position
1979	Black Singles	"Street Life"	17
1979	Club Play Singles	"Street Life"	75
1979	Pop Singles	"Street Life"	36

External links

• Transcription of Joe Sample's piano solo on Track 1 - "Street Life"

References

1. Allmusic review
2. Swenson, J. (Editor) (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 53. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
3. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 140.
4. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 66.