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The Festival Album

{{Infobox album

| name = The Festival Album

| type = Live album

| artist = The Jazz Crusaders

| cover = The Festival Album.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1966

| recorded = July 4 and October 8, 1966
Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI and Pacific Jazz Festival, Costa Mesa, CA

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Jazz, hard bop, modal jazz

| length = 56:50

| label = Pacific Jazz
PJ 10115

| producer = Richard Bock

| chronology = The Jazz Crusaders

| prev_title = Talk That Talk

| prev_year = 1966

| next_title = Uh Huh

| next_year = 1967

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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. [http://www.jazzdisco.org/pacific-jazz-records/catalog-10100-20100-series/#pj-10115 Pacific Jazz Records Catalog: 10100/20100 series] accessed January 12, 2016[http://stixhooper.com/?page_id=1572 Stix Hooper Discography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160127161408/http://stixhooper.com/?page_id=1572 |date=2016-01-27 }} accessed January 12, 2016

Reception

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|3.5|5}}

|rev2 = The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

|rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}} {{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=Penguin |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=322}}

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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".{{Allmusic|first=Thom |last=Jurek |class=album |id=mw0000344340 |title=The Festival Album – Review |accessdate=January 13, 2016}}

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

References

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Category:The Jazz Crusaders live albums

Category:1966 live albums

Category:Pacific Jazz Records live albums

Category:Albums recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival

Category:Albums recorded at Shelly's Manne-Hole

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