Flowering/Warne Marsh (1999)

About this title: Like much of saxophonist Charles Lloyd's output from the late '60s, Flowering is a concert recording, this time from Oslo, Norway. Live performance was the natural home for the Lloyd quartet's open-ended, but not prohibitively free-form approach. While this group enjoyed a certain hippie-era cachet, what endures in their music is the timeless value of powerful performances from musicians with few equals. The fact is, it's hard to go wrong with Lloyd's tenor sax and flute and a rhythm section made up of pianist Keith Jarrett, bassist Cecil McBee, and drummer Jack DeJohnette. Flowering is ... read more

Tracks:

1. Speak Low [Weill/Nash]
2. Love-In/Island Blues [Lloyd]
3. Wilpan's [McBee]
4. Gypsy '66 [Szabo]
5. Goin' to Memphis/Island Blues [Lloyd]
6. Too Close for Comfort [Bock/Holofcener/Wei]
7. Yardbird Suite [Parker]
8. It's All Right With Me [Porter]
9. My Melancholy Baby [Burnett/Norton]
10. Just Squeeze Me (But Don't Tease Me) [Ellington/Gaines]
11. Excerpt [Marsh]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.