Lookin' Ahead
{{about|the album by The Jazz Crusaders|other uses|Looking Ahead (disambiguation){{!}}Looking 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
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| rev1 = AllMusic
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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
- "Song of India" (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov) – 4:02
- "Big Hunk of Funk" (Wilton Felder) – 5:00
- "Tonight" (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim) – 2:50
- "507 Neyland" (Wayne Henderson) – 3:56
- "Till All Ends" (Joe Sample) – 3:33
- "Tortoise and the Hare" (Sample) – 4:24
- "In a Dream" (Henderson) – 3:20
- "Sinnin' Sam" (Stix Hooper) – 4:39
- "The Young Rabbits" (Henderson) – 3:35
Personnel
- Wayne Henderson – trombone
- Wilton Felder – tenor saxophone
- Joe Sample – piano
- Jimmy Bond – bass
- Stix Hooper – drums
References
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