{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Lighthouse '68 | type = Live album | artist = The Jazz Crusaders | cover = Lighthouse_'68.jpg | alt = | released = 1968 | recorded = November 10–13, 1967 | venue = The Lighthouse Hermosa Beach, CA | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = 73:39 | label = Pacific Jazz<br><small>PJ 10131</small> | producer = Richard Bock | chronology = The Jazz Crusaders | prev_title = Uh Huh | prev_year = 1967 | next_title = Powerhouse | next_year = 1968 | misc = {{Singles | name = Lighthouse '68 | type = live | single1 = Ooga-Boo-Ga-Loo / Eleanor Rigby }} }}
'''''Lighthouse '68''''' is a live album by The Jazz Crusaders recorded in 1967 and released on the Pacific Jazz label.<ref>[http://www.jazzdisco.org/pacific-jazz-records/catalog-10100-20100-series/#pj-10131 Pacific Jazz Records Catalog: 10100/20100 series] accessed January 12, 2016</ref><ref>[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</ref>
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> |rev2 = ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' |rev2score = {{Rating|3.5|4}} <ref name="Penguin">{{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}}</ref> }} AllMusic rated the album with 4 stars noting: "Feel is what dictates the material and its execution on this set, without unnecessary attention paid to crowd or recording apparatus. This is one [of] the most intimate jazz shows captured on tape during the 1960s. It gives record buyers the sound of a band in full possession of their considerable capabilities, celebrating them in a relaxed environment, playing their own brand of grooved-out '60s jazz".<ref name="Allmusic">{{AllMusic|first=Thom |last=Jurek |class=album |id=mw0000697614 |title=''Lighthouse '68'' – Review |accessdate=January 13, 2016}}</ref>
== Track listing == # "Ooga-Boo-Ga-Loo" (Stix Hooper) - 6:39 # "Eleanor Rigby" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 7:32 # "Native Dancer" (Buster Williams) - 8:52 # "Never Had It So Good" (Joe Sample) - 7:15 # "The Emperor" (Williams) - 8:50 # "Impressions" (John Coltrane) - 6:12 # "Cathy the Cooker" (Wayne Henderson) - 6:22 <small>Bonus track on CD reissue</small> # "Shadows" (Williams) - 4:03 <small>Bonus track on CD reissue</small> # "Tough Talk" (Henderson, Hooper, Sample) - 8:01 <small>Bonus track on CD reissue</small> # "Third Principle" (Wilton Felder) - 8:45 <small>Bonus track on CD reissue</small>
== Personnel == *Wayne Henderson - trombone *Wilton Felder - tenor saxophone *Joe Sample - piano *Buster Williams - bass *Stix Hooper - drums
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Category:The Crusaders (jazz fusion group) live albums Category:1968 live albums Category:Pacific Jazz Records live albums Category:Albums recorded at the Lighthouse Café