The Festival Album
The Jazz Crusaders
1967
The Festival Album is a Jazz album by The Jazz Crusaders, originally released in 1967. On Gatefold: 12 pressings tracked.
Sound DNA
- Jazz
- Bebop & Hard Bop
- warm
- driving
- smoky
About
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. The band had two different bass players during these gigs: Jimmy Bond was at the Newport Festival, while Herbie Lewis joined for the Pacific Jazz Festival. The band was well established everywhere but in New York, bewilderingly, and had recorded a dozen records, all of which were popular. And it’s easy to see why. The version of Ken Cox’s “Trance Dance” that opens the set .
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Tracklist
- 1Introduction0:34
- 2Trance Dance9:28
- 3Summer's Madness10:06
- 4Young Rabbits7:49
- 5Freedom Sound8:02
- 6Wilton's Boogaloo11:35
- 7Half and Half9:16
Credits
Performers
- Herbie LewisBASS
- Jimmy BondBASS
- "Stix" HooperDRUMS
- Joe SamplePIANO
- Wilton FelderTENOR SAXOPHONE
- Wayne HendersonTROMBONE
- Buster WilliamsBASS
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 12 pressings tracked on Gatefold