Experimental

The same concert of Charles Lloyd Quartet in January 1967 at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco, which also includes the tracks for "Love-In" come from, and the four titles are taken that have appeared on "Journey Within". The Charles Lloyd Quartet, a different progressive and classic jazz elements unifying Combo, was in the few years of its existence in many countries on the road and was among other frequently in Scandinavia, but also in the former Soviet bloc (in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania and even in the USSR) highly acclaimed concerts. This live recording demonstrates the wide acceptance of the band at that time also more calibrated on rock, folk and hippie sounds young audience in the US.
While on "Love-In" more the blues lastigeren and catchy pieces of the concert are gathered, the more experimental tracks on the disc "Journey Within" are united. The title track is initially characterized by a psychedelic flute Charles Lloyds before Keith Jarrett with monotonous lines continue wearing the number on the piano. At the end you hear a cacophony of various wind instruments and a whine that brings the piece rather strange to end. "Love No. 3" is Jarrett composition and is also solo played by him. However, the piano-dervish while not confined to the keys, but also generates with plucking the piano strings and knocking on the wood sometimes strange sounds. This basically beautiful theme of the play is lost largely. "Memphis Green" is a cool blues, the Lloyd with his saxophone impresses the stamp before Jarrett on piano and later Ron McClure on bass solos contribute - the best piece of the plate. The two-part "Lonesome Child" finally starts the typical sound of the quartet, but is soon in a wild duel tenor saxophonist with the soprano sax of Jarrett on (which is the first release on Jarrett soprano plays - later followed by another, also under certain conditions convincing examples with Jarrett's American Quartet). Ron McClure then sweeps still plenty of daring his bass; also this is more an experimental avant-garde affair.
"Journey Within" for a total of one of the weaker albums this in itself good and exciting jazz quartet from the late 1960s.