Lighthouse '69

Lighthouse '69
Live album by The Jazz Crusaders
Released	1969
Recorded	July 26–27, 1969 The Lighthouse Hermosa Beach, CA
Genre	Jazz
Label	Pacific Jazz ST 20165
Producer	Richard Bock
The Jazz Crusaders chronology
Powerhouse (1968) Lighthouse '69 (1969) Give Peace a Chance (1970)

Lighthouse '69 is a live album by The Jazz Crusaders recorded in 1969 and released on the Pacific Jazz label. ^{[1] [2]}

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
DownBeat	[4]

AllMusic rated the album with 3 stars noting: "as usual the group transforms the music into their own brand of soulful and funky hard bop". ^[3] Harvey Pekar, writing for DownBeat in a contemporary review, panned the album as "a commercial and not particularly interesting record". ^[4]

Track listing

1. "Get Back" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) — 4:10
2. "It's Gotta Be Real" (Larry Ramos) — 6:35
3. "Willie and Laura Mae Jones" (Tony Joe White) — 3:40
4. "Rubie P'Gonia" (Buster Williams) — 7:51
5. "It's Your Thing" (Ronald Isley, O'Kelly Isley, Jr., Rudolph Isley) — 5:17
6. "Inside the Outside" (Stix Hooper) — 6:28
7. "Reflections" (Wayne Henderson) — 6:35
8. "Svenska Flicka" (Joe Sample) — 4:53

Personnel

• Wayne Henderson — trombone
• Wilton Felder — tenor saxophone
• Joe Sample — piano, electric piano
• Buster Williams — bass
• Stix Hooper — drums

References

1. Pacific Jazz Records Catalog: 10100/20100 series accessed January 12, 2016
2. Stix Hooper Discography Archived 2016-01-27 at the Wayback Machine accessed January 12, 2016
3. Yanow, Scott. Lighthouse '69 – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved January 13, 2016.
4. Down Beat: February 19, 1970 vol. 37, no. 4.