{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Lighthouse '69 | type = Live album | artist = The Jazz Crusaders | cover = Lighthouse_'69.jpg | alt = | released = 1969 | recorded = July 26–27, 1969 | venue = The Lighthouse Hermosa Beach, CA | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = | label = Pacific Jazz<br><small>ST 20165</small> | producer = Richard Bock | chronology = The Jazz Crusaders | prev_title = Powerhouse | prev_year = 1968 | next_title = Give Peace a Chance | next_year = 1970 }}
'''''Lighthouse '69''''' is a live album by The Jazz Crusaders recorded in 1969 and released on the Pacific Jazz label.<ref>[http://www.jazzdisco.org/pacific-jazz-records/catalog-10100-20100-series/#st-20165 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|3|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> | rev2 = ''DownBeat'' | rev2Score = {{Rating|1.5|5}}<ref name="down beat">Down Beat: February 19, 1970 vol. 37, no. 4.</ref> }} AllMusic rated the album with 3 stars noting: "as usual the group transforms the music into their own brand of soulful and funky hard bop".<ref name="Allmusic">{{AllMusic|first=Scott |last=Yanow |class=album |id=mw0000881323 |title=''Lighthouse '69'' – Review |accessdate=January 13, 2016}}</ref> Harvey Pekar, writing for DownBeat in a contemporary review, panned the album as "a commercial and not particularly interesting record".<ref name="down beat" />
== Track listing == # "Get Back" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) — 4:10 # "It's Gotta Be Real" (Larry Ramos) — 6:35 # "Willie and Laura Mae Jones" (Tony Joe White) — 3:40 # "Rubie P'Gonia" (Buster Williams) — 7:51 # "It's Your Thing" (Ronald Isley, O'Kelly Isley, Jr., Rudolph Isley) — 5:17 # "Inside the Outside" (Stix Hooper) — 6:28 # "Reflections" (Wayne Henderson) — 6:35 # "Svenska Flicka" (Joe Sample) — 4:53
== Personnel == *Wayne Henderson — trombone *Wilton Felder — tenor saxophone *Joe Sample — piano, electric piano *Buster Williams — bass *Stix Hooper — drums
== References == {{reflist}}
{{The Crusaders}}
Category:The Crusaders (jazz fusion group) live albums Category:1969 live albums Category:Pacific Jazz Records live albums Category:Albums recorded at the Lighthouse Café