Crusaders | Jazz review

Ronnie Scott's, LondonTaking a guess on how long ago someone put the funk in modern jazz, younger listeners might go for the late 70s. The Jazz Crusaders, though ­travelling under other names then, did it more than 20 years earlier – emerging as a Houston high-school band in the early 50s, which soon evolved a ­characteristically danceable (and eventually bankable) take on the period's earthy hard-bop jazz style. The current legacy version of the band is fronted by the spirited orig...

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