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Powerhouse (The Jazz Crusaders album)

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Released
  
May 1969

Powerhouse (1969)
  
Lighthouse '69 (1969)

Release date
  
May 1969

Label
  
Pacific Jazz

Recorded
  
July 9–11, 1968

Artist
  
The Crusaders

Producer
  
Richard Bock

Genres
  
Jazz, Jazz fusion

Similar
  
The Crusaders albums, Jazz albums

Powerhouse is a 1969 album by The Jazz Crusaders. It was their fourteenth album produced by Richard Bock for World Pacific Jazz Records. It was the first album in which Joe Sample played on the Fender Rhodes and according to Thom Jurek in his AllMusic review, would mark a turning point for the band.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Promises, Promises" - (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
  2. "Love and Peace" - (Arthur Adams)
  3. "Hey Jude" - (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
  4. "Sting Ray" - (Wayne Henderson)
  5. "Fancy Dance" - (Joe Sample)
  6. "Love is Blue" - (André Popp, Blackburn, Pierre Cour)
  7. "Cookie Man" - (Wayne Henderson)
  8. "Upstairs" - (Burt Bacharach, Hal David)
  9. "Fire Water" - (Charles Williams)

Personnel

  • Wayne Henderson - Trombone
  • Wilton Felder - Saxophone
  • Joe Sample - Keyboards
  • Stix Hooper - Drums
  • Charles "Buster" Williams - Bass
  • Richard Bock - Producer and liner notes
  • Thorne Nogar - Engineer
  • Woody Woodward - Art Direction
  • Gabor Halmos - Design
  • Fred Seligo - Cover photography

    • Songs

    1Promises - Promises6:13
    2Love and Peace3:17
    3Hey Jude3:20

    References

    Powerhouse (The Jazz Crusaders album) Wikipedia
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