charles lloyd quartet - the flowering (33rpm lp)

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MEDIUM Vinyl Record
WEIGHT 180gr (black vinyl) 33rpm
CONDITION sealed
COVER Standard
CONDITION COVER M mint
SERIALNUMBER No
LIMITED Yes
MISCELLANEOUS Stereo
COVER DAMAGES No, we take care about that
MUSICIAN HOMEPAGE charleslloyd.com/homepage.htm

Charles Lloyd - tenor sax, flute
Keith Jarrett - piano
Cecil McBee - bass
Jack DeJohnette - drums

speak low - 8:26
love-in / island blues - 6:19
wilpan's - 6:39
gypsy '66 - 14:11
goin' to memphis / island Blues - 7:04

It might be hard to believe but there was once a jazz musician who was well known and well loved even in the global flower-power pop scene – and not just in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury

The name was and is Charles Lloyd

He appeared in the great concert halls (e.g. Fillmore West) and skilful marketing launched his LPs into the hit parades in the Sixties

It was clear then that European festival organizers from Molde to Antibes, from San Sebastian to Warsaw battled for appearances by this legendary quartet

In 1966 the original quartet was composed of Lloyd, Keith Jarrett, Cecil McBee and Jack DeJohnette who offered the public mixture of pop and jazz that was sometimes catchy, often ambitious and demanding, in some measure passionate, but always original

All this spiced up standard works and got the audience tapping their feet and snapping their fingers

The present LP begins with one of these standard works, Kurt Weill’s "Speak Low", and thus opens our ears for 43 minutes of relaxed listening

One notices that the control has not been handed over to free jazz players of the day

The impressionist sounds of the young Keith Jarrett fit in perfectly, and Jack DeJohnette had not yet moved into the realms of Miles Davis and his electric phase

A tip for great listening is Gabor Szabo’s composition "Gypsy 66", which is reminiscent of their time together with the other top drummer of the day, Chico Hamilton

All in all, this is a highly successful live production by Atlantic Records! (In their archives, by the way, are about a dozen unreleased Charles Lloyd recordings that are waiting to see the light of day)

In general, the present recording is rated higher than the LP In Europe, because the compositions leave behind a stronger impression on the listener

RECORDING LIVE July 23 - 24 at Juan-les-Pins Jazz Festival Antibes, France and October 29 1966 at Aulaen Hall Oslo, Norway
ENGINEERING Meny Bloch
LABEL Atlantic
RE MASTERING --
RE RELEASED 2019
AVERAGE RATING 5 Stars out of 5
PRESSING by Pallas
MADE IN Germany
STYLE Jazz / Crossover Jazz / Hard Bop
AVAILABLE as long as inventory

This product is expected to be in stock again on Monday, 23. September 2019

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