The Festival Album

The Festival Album
Live album by The Jazz Crusaders
Released	1966
Recorded	July 4 and October 8, 1966 Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI and Pacific Jazz Festival, Costa Mesa, CA
Genre	Jazz
Length	56:50
Label	Pacific Jazz PJ 10115
Producer	Richard Bock
The Jazz Crusaders chronology
Talk That Talk (1966) The Festival Album (1966) Uh Huh (1967)

The Festival Album is a live album by The Jazz Crusaders recorded in 1966 and released on the Pacific Jazz label.^[1][2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]

AllMusic rated the album with 3½ stars noting: "The Festival Album was the only live set by the Jazz Crusaders not recorded at the Lighthouse. As such, it is a compilation of performances recorded at the Pacific Jazz and Newport Festivals in 1966".^[3]

Track listing

1. "Introduction - 0:34
2. "Trance Dance" (Kenny Cox) - 9:28
3. "Summer's Madness" (Joe Sample, Wayne Henderson, Wilton Felder) - 10:06
4. "Young Rabbits" (Henderson) - 7:49
5. "Freedom Sound" (Sample) - 7:59
6. "Wilton's Boogaloo" (Felder) - 11:35 Bonus track on CD reissue
7. "Half and Half" (Charles Davis) - 9:14 Bonus track on CD reissue

• Recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, RI on July 4, 1966 (tracks 4 & 5), at the Pacific Jazz Festival in Costa Mesa, CA on October 8, 1966 (tracks 1-3) and at Shelly's Manne-Hole in Hollywood, CA on July 19, 1968 (tracks 6 & 7)

Personnel

• Wayne Henderson - trombone
• Wilton Felder - tenor saxophone
• Joe Sample - piano
• Jimmy Bond (tracks 1-3), Herbie Lewis (tracks 4 & 5), Buster Williams (tracks 6 & 7) - bass
• Stix Hooper - drums

References

1. Pacific Jazz Records Catalog: 10100/20100 series accessed January 12, 2016
2. Stix Hooper Discography accessed January 12, 2016
3. Jurek, Thom. The Festival Album – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved January 13, 2016.