Crusaders (Musical group)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Crusaders (Musical group)
Other forms of name
Swingsters
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 124300803
Library of congress: no 91019027
HAI10: 000079690
Sources of Information
  • Southern comfort [SR] 1974:labels (The Crusaders) container (members include Wayne Henderson, trb; Wilton Felder, t sax; Joe Sample, kbd; Stix Hooper, dr; Larry Carlton, gtr)
  • New Grove dict. of jazz(Crusaders; hard-bop, later jazz-rock, group; formed in early 50s in Houston as trio called The Swingsters [No publs. in LC data base]; addition of members prompted name change to Modern Jazz Sextet; upon move to Calif., name changed to Night Hawks [No publs. in LC data base] and then to the Jazz Crusaders (1961); change of name to Crusaders (1971) coincident with broadening of musical style)