Chain Reaction

by The Crusaders

Chain Reaction cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: August 1975
  • Label: Blue Thumb
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 40:36
  • Community rating: 3.78/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: Wayne Henderson, "Stix" Hooper, Joe Sample

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Crusaders fully solidified their transition from hard bop to highly accessible, R&B-infused jazz-funk on 'Chain Reaction'. The recording is remarkably tight and technical, offering rhythmic, heavily melodic instrumental grooves that dominated mid-70s jazz radio.

Genres

Descriptors: technical, rhythmic, melodic, instrumental, fusion, funky, groove-laden

Tracklist

  1. Creole (3:27)
  2. Chain Reaction (5:39)
  3. I Felt The Love - 1975 Album Version (2:30)
  4. Mellow Out (2:45)
  5. Rainbow Visions (6:15)
  6. Hallucinate (5:09)
  7. Give It Up (2:57)
  8. Hot's It (3:48)
  9. Sugar Cane (2:33)
  10. Soul Caravan (5:29)

Credits

  • "Stix" Hooper - drums, percussion, written-by
  • Larry Carlton - guitar [guitars], written-by
  • Ed Scarisbrick - illustration
  • Joe Sample - keyboards, electric piano [fender rhodes], clavinet, synthesizer, written-by
  • Wilton Felder - saxophone [saxes], bass, written-by
  • Wayne Henderson - trombone, brass, written-by

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