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]
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]
"Summer's Madness" (Joe Sample, Wayne Henderson, Wilton Felder) - 10:06
"Young Rabbits" (Henderson) - 7:49
"Freedom Sound" (Sample) - 7:59
"Wilton's Boogaloo" (Felder) - 11:35 Bonus track on CD reissue
"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)
