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Charles Lloyd Quartet
The Charles Lloyd Quartet was an American jazz group, active from 1966-1968. Members included saxophonist [|Charles Lloyd], pianist [|Keith Jarrett], drummer [|Jack DeJohnette], as well as bassists [|Cecil McBee] (1966-1967), and [|Ron McClure] (1967-1968).

While active, the quartet recorded eight albums for [|Atlantic Records] and achieved international success, not only appealing to jazz audiences in the United States, Europe, and in the USSR, but also to rock audiences at such venues as the [|Filmore Auditorium] in San Francisco. . Testaments to the group's crossover success are the public reception of its second release, [|Forest Flower], a live recording from the [|Monterey Jazz Festival] in 1966, which made history as one of the first jazz recordings to sell over one million copies, and also its shared billing with rock acts such as Jimi Hendrix, JanisJoplin, Cream, the Grateful Dead, and Jefferson Airplane. . The group disbanded in 1968, when Lloyd began to experience medical problems and entered into meditative retirement in Malibu and Big Sur, California.

Discography

 * [|Dream Weaver] (1966)
 * [|Forest Flower] (1966)
 * [|Charles Lloyd in Europe] (1966)
 * [|The Flowering] (1966)
 * [|Love In] (1967)
 * [|Journey Within] (1967)
 * [|Charles Lloyd in the Soviet Union] (1967)
 * [|Soundtrack] (1968)