Street Life

Background disco jazz, instrumentals are mildly okay, bit cheesy ⭐⭐⭐

분위기가 꽤 나쁘지 않았는데 뭔가 살짝 아쉬웠다. 뭔가 좀 늘어지는 느낌의 음악이었다. The atmosphere wasn't bad at all, but something felt a bit lacking. The music had a somewhat sluggish, dragging quality to it.

Track By Track Street Life - Oh, this is very smooth indeed. Buttery soft, in fact. The intro was like a smoother, sexier, midnight cowboy. Nice vocals! Wasn’t expecting them when I saw it was a jazz album. There’s disco here too. Lots of groove going on. Very nice indeed. Brilliant solos too. This track has it all! My Lady - They’re going for the long vibey groovers on this one and I’m on board to be honest! Very nice! Rodeo Drive (High Steppin’) - This is a lovely continuation. It’s like this and the last one are one long continuous track. A groove that just keeps on movin’. Vibin’ to the max. Carnival of the Night - Can imagine the scenes prompted by the title. It’s apt, it’s vibey as ever. I’m into it. Can imagine myself or people struttin’ their stuff in some glam threads down the evening sidewalk in New York or somewhere similar to this. The Hustler - Nice one, although this one and the last do sound fairly similar. But a definite vibe. I’m into it. Great guitar work. He’s bending and dripping jazzy vibes on those licks. Night Faces - This went by quite lovelily in the background. Nice! Overall Review: I just want to mention that this is my first night in my new place! Been a massive project moving but I’m here now and this is a lovely soundtrack. I’m Vibin’ and groovin’. It’s a nice dose of funk/disco/jazz. Very late night. Really liked the first track in particular. It did start to get a touch samey but this was my only real complaint. Very vibey album and great background potterinf music. 3.5/5 Favourite Songs: Street Life

Surprisingly decent background music.

Pretty nice! No complaints about this one, just a good jazzy 70’s sound. Favorite song: Carnival of the Night

- like it - jazzy - nice - peaceful - like the instruments

Street life a tune, jazz is long

I like this though jazzy

This was my first encounter with The Crusaders, and I enjoyed it immensely. While I have an appreciation for jazz, too often I either find it repetitive or find the music wanders off in too many directions. This never felt like that. The injection of funk into the mix was incredible, and I will never be disappointed by a sax player who knows what they're doing, and is having fun with it. And that guitar work was clean. I was instantly entranced by the title track, and while I wish there were more vocal tracks on the album, it was still a great listen. This album easily goes on my replay list, and on my vinyl list.

fine

On first impressions, I was excited to dive into this record due to the genres being listed as funk and jazz (with the style being disco). Upon finishing, I can't say I was disappointed but I am a bit underwhelmed? Ah well, I had a good time regardless!

Great album great band.

10 10 sax intro STREETLIFE

Why was “street life” 11 minutes long? You could tell me it was a 4 minute song repeated 3 times in a row and I couldn’t tell the difference.

The first/title song on here is a 10/10 hit, love it!! The rest was just fine. They crushed with the first one and I wish they did more vocals on the rest of the album because it just faded from there. Still a fun listen!

Love Street Life. Like the jazzy feel in general, although it has an almost easy listening vibe on some of the songs which knocks it down.

Short on lyrics, long on jazz funk! I didn't realize that this wasn't going to be just another R&B/funk band from the 70s. These guys are some serious fusionists. The playing on this is top notch, with several moments that made my ears perk up. Which doesn’t happen all that often to be honest. This was really good.

Fuck, I needed this album. just the right amount of groovy and not too fast or slow. just right.

Smooooth. Enjoyed these grooves, though they weren’t particularly memorable later. 7/10 Quite Likeable

I really enjoyed this album by the Crusaders! It was a great mix of jazz, funk, rhythm, all rolled into one.

Kko pa daļām klausījos

Ļoti fun

Sorta smooth and trivial and pleasurable?

Sehr cooles modern jazz Album

Fühlt sich nach fancy Cocktailbar an, in der alle aber nur einen Old Fashioned trinken. An sich gut, aber da die Songs keinen Text haben (außer street life) nicht so einprägsam.

A lot of sublime moments, but also a lot of cheesy sax.

decent combination of jazz and funk

314. nice

LOVED!

Smooth jazz. Really fun percussion on some of these tracks. Best tracks: all album Rating: 7/10

Street life is a brilliant song on a good album Smooth funky jazz . The lack of a singer on most of the songs , after the eponymous opening track, kind of relegates this to background music . While I will buy this on vinyl I’ll probably only play it as background music for a dinner party

1.5/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the-crusaders/street-life-2/ Okay Street Life (the song) is enjoyable, but the rest is so incredibly boring. I don't like jazz, as my other jazz ratings will show, but this is even worse than the other jazz on this list: this is not annoying, this is just peak blandness.

Cool album for driving at night in the warm city lights without direction. Perfect for a taxi driver. If you know you know.

- Hey, whats up? - Hey, Im actually about to make an elevator porno movie. Maybe You would like to make the soundtrack? - Sure thing, buddy!

I find jazz to be extremely tedious.

635/1089 - Didn't realize Water Baby by Tom Misch was a sample! Cool pop jazz.

The opener is an amazing single, with the other songs being perfectly enjoyable, but not as stand out to me.

This was wonderful, and my only criticism was that it was too short. I listened to it twice and enjoyed every moment of it. Very groovy and easy to hum and bop to. Great writing, performance and recording. Four stars.

The title track is a ripper, but the rest of the album is pretty much just background music

Heavy

Please hold 3/10

Not much to complain about here. It’s nice.

Lekker relaxed

Oooooh dit nummer! Heerlijke opener! En meteen ga ik ook weer rechtop zitten, want als dit de opener is; word dit dan een heel album genieten of valt de kwaliteit van een klif na het eerste nummer? Ik ben echt blij verrast, tuurlijk het is wel een klein beetje liftmuziek jazz, maar dan wel het soort dat je ook kan horen in een luxe whisky bar. Night Faces is voor mij een beetje het meeste 'liftmuziek' maar een aantal andere nummers zijn juist dansbaar en hoor je meerdere elementen van funk in plaats van alleen Jazz. Tuurlijk; de saxofoon is een dominant instrument, maar het klinkt gewoon goed. Dit is een album dat denk ik heerlijk dienst kan doen als achtergrond muziek, maar vlak het niet uit. Dit op een goed geluidssysteem beloont aandachtig luisteren meer dan je in eerste instantie zou denken. En god, wat is Street Life toch een lekkere plaat eigenlijk. Hele, hele hoge 4 sterren, denk dat ik hem toch net iets spannender had willen hebben voor de 5, maar dit was een heerlijk maandagmiddagalbum en ik sluit niet uit dat deze ooit op vinyl hier komt te liggen. FAVO: Street Life, Rodeo drive, Carnival of the night

Standouts My Lady Carnival of the Night Night Faces

8/10

Groovy, groovy, jazzy, funky

Ce serait sévère d'appeler ça de la musique d'ascenseur, mais c'est quand même plutôt une vibe de background music...

Smooth to the point of insubstantiality. Unfortunately, my millennial ears can’t help but hear it as elevator music.

Sometimes fusion works for me, sometimes it doesn't; in this case, it didn't really work for me

High 3, very nice to listen to, wish the songs were a bit shorter though

I've had a lot of jazzy albums lately and I'm not hating it! This was not as interesting or lively as the last couple I've had though. Nothing much to say about it really

The first track is carzy long haha. I like the disco vibe. Real nice songs to be played while you need to foucs on something else.

Very nice. Groovy

STREET LIFE

Starts off with a banger for the ages and then descends into elevator music. So weird.

a rather bland listening experience for jazz. serviceable as mild background music, but i found that interacting with it as anything more was simply not worth my time, with the exception of the title track.

This was a fun album, but it is not likely something I'd listen to again. I feel like it is 80-90% to something much greater in potential, but it doesn't quite get there. I'd give it a 3.5 stars, but I do think it is something special, a mix of a few different genres, especially for the time it was released.

Nothing that wowed me, but it was a decent chill listen.

Pretty good. Street Life might be the first 10+ minute opening track that I enjoyed the entire time on my first listen. None of the other songs live up to that one, but it's enjoyable instrumental soul/jazz.

I always wondered where hold music came from…

Funky as all hell. Triumphant instrumental chops in grooves so tight they'll cut off the blood supply to your major arteries. The only reason this isn't a storming 5 star is that the final few tracks simply can't live up to the brilliance of the first three.

Now I’m not a ‘disco sucks’ guy but I think albums like this give a pretty good sense of why there hasn’t been much of a sustained attempt to revive it since the ‘70s. There’s a bit more jazz and RnB influence here, but nothing to really make this anything of note.

On the basis of the first few tracks I’d be tempted to give this a high 4 or even 5. It’s a delightfully funky selection of songs. However, the latter half of the album is less interesting and brings the overall rating down to a high 3.

The Crusaders might be a jazz fusion group, but I’d say this is more a mostly instrumental soul/funk/R&B album than a jazz one, combining a funky rhythm section with electric pianos, horns and strings. The title track is the only one with lyrics, and it’s certainly the standout too (great vocals from Randy Crawford; the saxes take over the main melodic line after this track). After that it’s a case of diminishing returns, with each subsequent track less interesting than the one preceding it, such that by the end it’s too samey to get above 3 stars.

Title track was good, the rest was really boring.

con lo espectacular que es el primer tema me da pena que el resto del album sea solo instrumental :( le tuvieron miedo al exito 7/10

not as good as Joni Mitchell’s Blue

Has one of the all-time great bangers and five other pretty good songs.

Banger title track, and also others are ok

I didn't recognize the band or album, so I was sort of surprised with a dose of excitement as the first track started playing. "Ohhhh, THAT Street Life!" Just an all time track. I'm a sucker for funky soul and that song is a plain old good time (for a song with downer lyrics). Was it enough to elevate the overall album, which is real good, but all pretty straightforward, to 5-Star level? Not quite. But a damn fine spin all around.

If I saw this album performed live from a grass lawn while I was wearing a sunhat and holding a plastic cup full of wine, I would be content. In saying that, I would also be content watching a lot of things under those conditions: cricket, Slipknot, a cow narrowly missing obliteration from a passing freight train. Mooooo.

Started with a disco track, then turned into easy listening and jazz. Not bad, but a little boring.

Some rad guitar solos over cocktail lounge vamps. 2.5.

Not seeing much here.

To me, generic R&B, enjoyable enough.

Really good smooth jazz

Ok, smooth začetek ("My Lady"). Maaa. Na tretjem komadu sm ("Rodeo Drive (High Steppin')") pa mi je že mal dosadno in samey. Ok. Sledeči mi je končno slightly drugačen ("Carnival of the Night"). Fak, k pa trobente začnejo, mi mal dol pade. Enjoyable, mal preveč loungey zame, ampak nikakor pa ne slabo.

Halpahallissa kuuluu tämmöistä jatsia taustamusana.

Olipa kyllä törkeen smooth levy. Oikein mielellään kuunteli. Pelkästä instrumentaalista pieni miinus, eka biisi bängäs tykimmin ku oli laulut mukana.

As a child I must have been beaten with a saxophone or trapped inside an elevator and saxually assaulted by Kenny G or something because as an adult I sure do have an irrationally violent aversion to them.

Oh, good. It’s been a while since we’ve had a really excellent jazz album.

Street life is great ! The rest is not... as great!?

Smooth

Chill, men inget att aktivt lyssna på.

Lättlyssnad jazz, trevlig bakgrundsmusik.

big 3

The first three songs were really good but it far and away falls off at the secondly half, still quite nice though

I always thought songs like Street Life were created solely for the ending credits of movies made in the eighties. I never imagined someone buying an album’s worth of music like this. So, I just finished my first listen and it was so uneventful. Beige jazz? Wallpaper funk? Other than the first song, I don’t recall a thing. Other than the single charting in the UK, what is the reasoning for having to hear this before I die??

Låter som den menlösa musik som spelas under bingospelen i Bingolotto Fram med krysspennan

Street life må vara en bra låt, om än onödigt lång. Men resten är farligt nära hissmusik. Tvåa, om än svag, med hjälp av öppningsspåret.

Spretigt. I alla fall vad gäller kvalité. Inledande titelspåret är ju en hit av en anledning. Skönt groove och Crawfords sånginsats håller klass. Riktigt den nivån når man inte igen även om efterföljande My lady gör sig bra i gränslandet softjazz, disco, modern soul. Resten av albumet blir emellertid allt för strömlinjeformat och själlöst. Det finns inslag jag uppskattar som t ex saxen i the Hustler, men som helhet blir det mest bakgrundsmusik. Topparna räddar dock trean.

Titelspåret är en höjdare. Resten är rätt lam jazzig coctail-soul.

Boring album cover, looks like something I would take as an end to a gambling night. If it wasnt for the lame album cover, this would likely be a 5 for me. This is a fantastic jazz album, no notes, one of the best I have heard. I really enjoy the vocals on the first song, and its length as well. Literally the only thing holding this back from a 5 is the cover. Best Song: Carnival of the Night. Worst Song: The Hustler.

Each song brings a tranquil jazz sound, with saxophone, keyboard and percussion. When I think of “smooth jazz”, I think of Street Life

The Crusaders are who they think they are. Street Life is a fun, groovy jazz album that expertly blends multiple instruments in each song. The title track is a wonderful 11-minute gem which utilizes vocals as an additional "instrument" to enrich its soulful, bright sound. The mixing of the saxophone, piano, guitar, and drums throughout the album is remarkable, and every element is given their moment to shine — the saxophone on "My Lady" and "Rodeo Drive (High Steppin')," the guitar on "Carnival Of The Night," and the piano on "My Lady" are a few arabesque examples. While the first track is truly magnificent, the last few are more modest listens — not remotely poor, but not as monumental.

Is it funky? Disco? Jazz??? Very far from my taste. I do not like the sound of 1970's either - but the music is not bad. I had no problem listening to it, once.

Street life is a banger, however, other ones sound pretty mediocare, regulat staff, nothing special

Haven’t heard this much Muzak since being stuck in an elevator in 1979. Kinda groovy in some way, as long as you can get past the many many layers of cheese and gratuitous saxophone

Twenty weeks on the top of the jazz charts in the US and the UK says, evidently, jazz listeners think it's more important than just "hold music." It sort of sucks for jazz music doesn't it? That it's got this beautiful instrumental sound that has all been boxed into the hold music of the 2000s. I don't even know many places that still have jazz hold music and not just ads and a talking AI lady (or a call back feature), but alas. I enjoy the saxphone. The title track was fairly strong, but for all my words I like other jazz records better.