Forest Flower: Charles Lloyd at Monterey

A watershed album that became one of the first jazz records to sell over a million copies, 'Forest Flower' brought post-bop to the masses. The quartet's performance at the Monterey Jazz Festival was a sensation, with its blend of accessible modal structures, spiritual curiosity, and the rhapsodic, lyrical piano of a young Keith Jarrett connecting deeply with the burgeoning hippie counterculture. It introduced a gentler, more globally-influenced vision of jazz to a vast new audience.