The Festival Album

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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, hard bop, modal 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 at Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and Pacific Jazz Festival in California. It was released on the Pacific Jazz label that same year. ^[1]^[2]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[4]

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

"Introduction - 0:34
"Trance Dance" (Kenny Cox) - 9:28
"Summer's Madness" (Joe Sample, Wayne Henderson, Wilton Felder) - 10:06
"Young Rabbits" (Henderson) - 7:49
"Freedom Sound" (Sample) - 7:59
"Wilton's Boogaloo" (Felder) - 11:35 Bonus track on CD reissue
"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

^ Pacific Jazz Records Catalog: 10100/20100 series accessed January 12, 2016
^ Stix Hooper Discography Archived 2016-01-27 at the Wayback Machine accessed January 12, 2016
^ ^a ^b Jurek, Thom. The Festival Album – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 322. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

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