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of September 12, 1970, categorized it as "Pop" saying "Lloyd has switched into the rock energy and came up with a rock album that contains his own music and lyrics. Good etherial product, part jazz, a lot of rock and much heavy." Generally the album receives still mixed reviews and has mostly been
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At that time Lloyd's "music was warm, inviting, and peaceful, unlike the abrasive, aggressive protest statements made by many of his 1960s contemporaries. It provided a sonic backdrop and soothing soundtrack for a generation of alienated youth." Many of the temporary circumstances influenced Lloyd
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So in 1969 he disbanded the quartet and moved from New York to California, where he went to college – away from the temporary jazz scene to a jazz outback. At the age of 31 Lloyd decided to turn his back to the public and enter a detoxification center in Malibu. But he never stopped playing and
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At the end of 1970 the recording was simultaneously released in the US, Canada, the UK, France and Italy; but the demand wasn't big enough to reprint it. As of 2016 there has only been one reissue so far: BGO Records rereleased it once on compact disc in 1997.
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was a recordings born out of this period, a time of great uncertainty and darkness in the heart of America, when the hitherto unassailable ramparts of US capitalism and lifestyle had been shaken by the radical questioning of the
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with a retouched silhouette of Lloyd playing flute on the moon. The record opens with the corresponding "Moonman I" and ends with "Moonman II" – though they are not written as two words.
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but also the first to play in the Soviet Union. By the end of the '60s Lloyd's quartet became especially well known in the so-called "
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It was additionally the first production led by Lloyd, while Eric Sherman did the design concept (who assisted the recordings of
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label. It was his first album following the breakup of the Charles Lloyd Quartet and his move from
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From there on Lloyd worked as a session player and recorded as guest musician for
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The track "I Don't Care What You Tell Me" has been recorded by boogie band
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Due to his disappearance Lloyd's fans lost track of him in the 1970s, as
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and flute he now can also be heard for the first time on vocals and
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in 1972). The LP cover shows an adaptation of the 1968 photograph
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All compositions and lyrics by Charles Lloyd except as indicated
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review awarded the album with only 2 stars. Josef Woodard of
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In 1966 Lloyd founded his quartet with the young pianist
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In the liner notes of the reissue Tom Callaghan writes:
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Index


Studio album
Charles Lloyd
Genre
Jazz-funk
crossover jazz
folk rock
Label
Kapp
MCA Records
Producer
Charles Lloyd
Soundtrack
Warm Waters
jazz
Charles Lloyd
Kapp
Atlantic Records
Keith Jarrett
Cecil McBee
Ron McClure
Jack DeJohnette
Forest Flower
The Fillmore
hippie movement
Grateful Dead
Janis Joplin
Jimi Hendrix
The Byrds
Jefferson Airplane

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