The Flowering

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = The Flowering | type = [[Live album]] | artist = [[Charles Lloyd (jazz musician)|Charles Lloyd]] | cover = The Flowering.jpg | alt = | released = July 1971<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=uggEAAAAMBAJ&dq=charles+Lloyd+Flowering&pg=PA51 ''Billboard'' July 31, 1971]</ref> | recorded = July 23 & 24 and October 29, 1966 | venue = | studio = | genre = [[Jazz]] | length = 42:39 | label = [[Atlantic Records|Atlantic]] | producer = [[George Avakian]] | chronology = [[Charles Lloyd (jazz musician)|Charles Lloyd]] | prev_title = [[Forest Flower]] | prev_year = 1967 | next_title = [[Charles Lloyd in Europe]] | next_year = 1966 }}

'''''The Flowering''''' is a [[live album]] by [[jazz]] [[saxophonist]] [[Charles Lloyd (jazz musician)|Charles Lloyd]] performed in France and Norway by the Charles Lloyd Quartet featuring [[Keith Jarrett]], [[Cecil McBee]] and [[Jack DeJohnette]].

==Reception== The [[Allmusic]] review by [[Scott Yanow]] awarded the album 4½ stars and states "This set is even a bit better than the ''[[Charles Lloyd in Europe|In Europe]]'' album due to the stronger (if more familiar) material".<ref name="Allmusic">Yanow, S. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r172716|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic Review] accessed January 20, 2010.</ref> {{Music ratings | rev1 = ''[[Allmusic]]'' | rev1Score = {{rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> }}

==Track listing== :''All compositions by Charles Lloyd except as indicated'' # "Speak Low" ([[Ogden Nash]], [[Kurt Weill]]) - 8:26 # "Love-In/Island Blues" - 6:19 # "Wilpan's" (Cecil McBee) - 6:39 # "Gypsy '66" ([[Gábor Szabó]]) - 14:11 # "Goin' to Memphis/Island Blues" - 7:04 :Liner Notes state that the entire album was recorded at Aulaen Hall, Oslo, Norway. JazzDisco.Org states that track 5 was recorded on July 23 or 24, 1966 at [[Juan-les-Pins#Jazz à Juan|Juan-les-Pins Jazz Festival]], Antibes, France and all other tracks on October 29, 1966 at Aulaen Hall, Oslo, Norway

==Personnel== *[[Charles Lloyd (jazz musician)|Charles Lloyd]] - [[tenor saxophone]], [[flute]] *[[Keith Jarrett]] - [[piano]] *[[Cecil McBee]] - [[double bass|bass]] *[[Jack DeJohnette]] - [[drum kit|drums]]

==Production== *Meny Bloch - engineer

==References== {{Reflist}}

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