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The Crusaders

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Geaorge Benson

ramsey lewis

Jazz Improvisation with Jazz, Funk and R&B

Fusion Jazz Radio

.My Jazz

Space-Time

Sun Princess

Song : Nothing's gonna change my love for you  
Singer : George Benson
Lyrics : Gerry Goffin and Michael Masser
Music : Gerry Goffin and Michael Masser

Lyrics : 
If I had to live my life without you near me 
The days would all be empty 
The nights would seem so long 
With you I see forever, oh, so clearly 
I might have been in love before 
But it never felt this strong

Our dreams are young and we both know 
They'll take us where we want to go
Hold me now, touch me now 
I don't want to live without you

Nothing's gonna change my love for you 
You oughta know by now how much I love you 
One thing you can be sure of 
I'll never ask for more than your love

Nothing's gonna change my love for you 
You oughta know by now how much I love you 
The world may change my whole life through 
But nothing's gonna change my love for you

If the road ahead is not so easy 
Our love will lead the way for us 
Like a guiding star 
I'll be there for you if you should need me 
You don't have to change a thing 
I love you just the way you are

So come with me and share the view
I'll help you see forever too 
Hold me now, touch me now
I don't want to live without you

Nothing's gonna change my love for you 
You oughta know by now how much I love you 
One thing you can be sure of 
I'll never ask for more than your love

Nothing's gonna change my love for you 
You oughta know by now how much I love you 
The world may change my whole life through 
But nothing's gonna change my love for

Nothing's gonna change my love for you 
You oughta know by now how much I love you 
One thing you can be sure of 
I'll never ask for more than your love

Nothing's gonna change my love for you 
You oughta know by now how much I love you 
The world may change my whole life through 
But nothing's gonna change my love for

Nothing's gonna change my love for you 
You oughta know by now how much I love you 

Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You - George Benson

The new single, "Hustle" from Supergroup Jazz Funk Soul (JFS) - Everette Harp, Jeff Lorber and Paul Jackson Jr. JFS are three of the most important and revered Contemporary Jazz hit makers on the scene today.  The dynamic three-some are responsible for selling millions of albums and scoring more than 50 #1 Smooth Jazz radio hits! The new CD "Forecast" comes out on Shanachie Entertainment August 5, 2022.

01 - Jazz Funk Soul - Hustle

The Deplar Effect

Before (feat. Eddie Roberts & Lamar Williams Jr.)

ADDITIONAL PERCUSSIONS AND SCRATCHES ON THIS RE-ARRANGED FUNK JAZZ [SALSA] TUNE FROM THE 1998 ALBUM "BREAK 'N DA RULZ".

Jazz Crusaders - La Salsa La Funk [AFK Mambo Re:Edit]

TOOL - The patient - guitars with original track

The Drop

Keep On Moving

Katatonia The Parting (acoustic Version)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsNAErFSMkk&list=PLbZSSAO6TG-PHSUAktnzY7U_tj-9JjJC7

George Benson's percolating latin bump version of Donny Hathaway's "The Ghetto".  Original cut on "Absolute Benson".

This retreat is done with respect to the original by RocknRolla Soundsystem

Buy on Juno

George Benson - The Ghetto (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit)

Ramsey Lewis - Mother Nature's Son (Philippe Edison Remix)

Give Me The Night [Original Album Version]

George Benson - "Give Me The Night"

The Jazz Crusaders - Golden Slumbers (1970)

From Solar Wind, 1974. This album is out of print, ridiculously enough.

Ramsey Lewis - Hummingbird

This is the ultimate good time track from the ultimate good time band, the Crusaders. It was written by the late, great Joe sample and has been covered many times, the Average White Band's vocal version being one of my faves.
The Crusaders have been overlooked yet are such an important influence on so many Jazz players. Indeed they had some Jazz Giants playing for them; Joe Sample (pianist), Stix Hooper (drums), Wilton Felder (saxophone), and Wayne Henderson (trombone) plus a skinny white guy called Larry Carlton on guitar. They were big in the 1970's and had a hit with Street Life featuring Randy Crawford. They have kept popping up in various incarnations since.
The Crusaders are my all time fave band. If I had a choice of joining Steely Dan, Earth wind and Fire or the Crusaders then the Crusaders would win hands down. That's how much I dig them.
The Crusaders are the ultimate good time band. Great tracks that swing, mostly in major keys, infectious rhythms that defy your feet not to tap. From a guitar players point of view these tracks play themselves. They are simple and that's why they are fun. 
I'll be posting more covers from this band real soon.
Ben   :-)

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The Crusaders ---- Put It Where You Want It! (downloadable)

Spiral is one of the Crusader's seminal tracks and a joy for any guitarist to play over. It is from the 1976 album Those Southern Knights.

The Crusaders ---- Spiral (downloadable)

This is a tribute to Wes w a Freddy Hubbard Vibe.
My original composition before sax is added.



3 On 4 - Tribute to Wes (w a Freddy Hubbard Vibe)

TRICKS FOR GUITAR SOLOING
This is my fave track from my fave band and has my best solo to date. Check it out at 2 mins 40 secs (roughly halfway thru)
Why's it my best solo? I saw this young upstart guitarist in 1970 something play this live. It was awe inspiring. That was Larry Carlton of course and he went on to play with Steely Dan (and just about everyone else). 
My solo is as close as it gets to Larry's vibe. By doing a Q&A with the backing riff frees you from following continuous chords with compatible scales. It's mostly a pentatonic blues scale, B♭ or a G melodic minor slipping into/out of the major scale. 
Being free to just throw down motifs is why I can get such light and shade into it. You know, standing back then digging in. Always effective.  
Next trick that a lot of players are blissfully unaware of is to play the silences between the notes. A deluge of fast notes over the whole of a solo gets, well, boring. If you time it right you can add some tension for the listener aching for you to play the next lick. 
Less is more. This allows those little nuances; vibratos, slides, slurs, harmonics, slaps, snaps etc. I go through just about every one in my repertoire. I may not be the best technician by my style, like Larry's, is pretty expressive. 

more

The Crusaders ---- Chain Reaction (downloadable)

Curtains

The Past Recedes

Grover Washington Jr. Ft. Bill Withers - Just The Two Of Us Rework

Tom Woodruff-Keyboards,Larry Jackson-Alto Sax
*Recorded live @ Cafe' 290,Atlanta '96
All other tracks arranged and sequenced by Tom Woodruff

*Winelight (Grover Washington,Jr.)

The Painter's Palette

The Passage (Pearl Grey)

Grover Washington Jr - Hydra (1975)

Surface Level

U-Nam - Plus de Funk!

「Just the Two of Us」（邦題:『クリスタルの恋人たち』）は、グローヴァー・ワシントン・ジュニアが1980年に発表したアルバム『Winelight』に収録された楽曲で、彼の最大のヒット曲である。ビル・ウィザース、ウィリアム・サルター、ラルフ・マクドナルドによる作詞・作曲。1981年にシングルカット。

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Hope you have a enjoy!!!

Grover Washington Jr / Just The Two Of Us (JUNSHIMBO Edit)

Grover Washington Jr / Just The Two Of Us (JUNSHIMBO Edit) 【FREE DL】

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George Benson - Give Me the Night (Chrome Canyon edit) (Free Download)

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I play the music I like to listen to. 
As a guitarist I like to think I have my own style.
Harmony, and the groove is what I'm chasing, hopefully with a tasteful, nuanced, and distinctive presentation. 
I don't have a genre as such. I could sort of call myself a smooth Jazz 'n' Blues guitar 'thang' but in reality every track crosses over multiple strands of R&B/Jazz/Funk/Pop. Don't be put off by my use of the "J" word. Jazz to me is anything unpredictable and I'm nothing if not contemporary. 
Rhythm playing is as much a part of my "game" as lead soloing. I love the Funk!
My main instrument is guitar. I play a 1973 Ovation Breadwinner, an Ibanez nylon stringed and a Yamaha keyboard loaded with Keyscape. Unless stated I play all the other instruments too (mostly Bass), and sequence MIDI and arrange/produce. 

MY JOURNEY
I was signed with Fresh Air records and EMI in the 1980's creating Jazz/funk dance tracks but things were just as challenging then as they are now for musicians so I got a 'proper job' for 20 years! During all that time my guitar was in the loft! I rediscovered music in 2010 and Soundcloud in 2014.


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The Crusaders ---- Put It Where You Want It! (downloadable)

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