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
SourceRating
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

Personnel

References

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