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The Festival Album

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Released
  
1966

The Festival Album (1966)
  
Uh Huh (1967)

Release date
  
1966

Label
  
Pacific Jazz Records

Length
  
56:50

Artist
  
The Crusaders

Producer
  
Richard Bock

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
July 4 and October 8, 1966 Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI and Pacific Jazz Festival, Costa Mesa, CA

Similar
  
The Crusaders albums, Jazz albums

The Festival Album is a live album by The Jazz Crusaders recorded in 1966 and released on the Pacific Jazz label.

Contents

Reception

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".

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
  • 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

    • Songs

    1Introduction (2005 Digital Remaster)0:35
    2Trance Dance (2005 Digital Remaster)9:28
    3Summer's Madness (2005 Digital Remaster)10:06

    References

    The Festival Album Wikipedia
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