Lookin' Ahead

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{{Infobox album

| name = Lookin' Ahead

| type = Album

| artist = The Jazz Crusaders

| cover = Lookin' Ahead.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1962

| recorded = January 7, 1962
January 19, 1962

| studio = Pacific Jazz Studios
Hollywood, California, U.S.

| venue =

| genre = Jazz

| length =

| label = Pacific Jazz
PJ 43

| producer = Richard Bock

| chronology = The Jazz Crusaders

| prev_title = Freedom Sound

| prev_year = 1961

| next_title = The Jazz Crusaders at the Lighthouse

| next_year = 1962

}}

Lookin' Ahead is the second album by The Jazz Crusaders recorded in 1962 and released on Pacific Jazz Records.[http://www.jazzdisco.org/pacific-jazz-records/catalog-10000-20000-series/#pj-43 Pacific Jazz Records Catalog: 10000/20000 series] accessed January 12, 2016[http://stixhooper.com/?page_id=1572 Stix Hooper Discography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127161408/http://stixhooper.com/?page_id=1572 |date=2016-01-27 }} accessed January 12, 2016

Reception

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}

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Writing for AllMusic, Scott Yanow wrote, "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".{{AllMusic|first=Scott |last=Yanow |class=album |id=mw0000891016 |title=Freedom Sound – Review |accessdate=January 13, 2016}}

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