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]
| The Festival Album | ||||
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| Live album by | ||||
| 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 | |||
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Reception
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| 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
edit- "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
edit- 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
edit- ^ 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.