Hey Jazzy!! Me too!! I bought that album (LP!!) on a used LPs sale when I was a little kid -about 10, already immersing myself into jazz-, and knew nothing about the band, but loved the LP cover! (and it was being sold very cheap). Then I listened to it and immediately loved Keep that same old feeling and Feeling Funky. That was not only my first conscious exposition to Sample and the Crusader?s work -later came Street Life and blew me off!!!- but also my first conscious exposition to Larry Carlton?s guitar playing. (Please note my conscious exposition concept implies that I might have -and surely had- heard them before, but not knowing who they were back then).
Sample was not only a wonderful player, but one of an exquisite taste. Up he goes, to my keyboard players altar, right beside one of my other all-time favourites: Richard Tee.
