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Which Way Is East
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: CD 1: What Is Man; Divans; Salaam; All This Is That.
CD 2: Desire; Devotion; Light of Love; Surrender.
Charles Lloyd/Billy Higgins: Which Way Is East
by David Adler
“We got to keep workin’ on this music.” Four months before his death, drum shaman Billy Higgins spoke those words to Charles Lloyd. The two were in the midst of some of their final conversations, both verbal and musical. Higgins had been in and out of hospitals, battling liver failure, and he and Lloyd knew their ...
Charles Lloyd/Billy Higgins: Which Way Is East
by Mark Corroto
Name your religion. Seriously, these days everyone from President Dubya" to freedom fighters is wearing his or her religion on their sleeves. Why not jazz musicians? And jazz musicians seem to get it." The spiritual part, that is. From Coltrane to James Moody and Dizzy Gillespie—it’s all about the love supreme, if I ...
Charles Lloyd/Billy Higgins: Which Way Is East
by Mark F. Turner
Which Way Is East documents a simply magical recording between two lifelong musicians and friends: saxophonist Charles Lloyd and drummer Billy Higgins. The recording is significant for a number of reasons. Besides the musical affinity the two musicians shared, a spiritual bond also permeated their music. Having collaborated many years on numerous projects their recent efforts ...
Charles Lloyd/Billy Higgins: Which Way Is East
by John Kelman
There has always been an inherent spiritual element in Charles Lloyd's work, but nowhere as overt as on Which Way is East , a series of duets recorded with drummer and, as it turns out, multi-instrumentalist Billy Higgins, who passed away only four months after these sessions were recorded. In the liner notes Higgins is quoted ...