The Festival Album

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The Festival Album
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Live album by
The Jazz Crusaders
Released1966
RecordedJuly 4 and October 8, 1966
Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI and Pacific Jazz Festival, Costa Mesa, CA
Genre Jazz, Hard bop, Modal jazz
Length56:50
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]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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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

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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. 1 2 Jurek, Thom. The Festival Album – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved January 13, 2016.
  4. ↑ 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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