was taught how to listen to jazz in my freshman year of college, where my assigned roommate was a music major, young saxophonist - over our 8-9 months sharing the room, he started me with chuck mangione, george benson, bob james... eventually we got all the way into bird, trane, joe pass, oscar peterson, miles, dex, abbey lincoln and the rest, was a truly formative period in my becoming a lifelong jazz fan, supporting the art form etc...
the crusaders, scratch, southern comfort, chain reaction, southern knights, were a big part of that journey... larry carlton joining really injected a new energy into the group, but wilton felder and joe sample were consistently the leading voices and artistic anchors....
...many fond memories - will listen to some of this again tonight! thanks for the prompt....🤗