Jazz Articles about Charles Lloyd

About Charles Lloyd

Live Review

Ben ventiquattro concerti, dal 7 al 21 Novembre 2014 per la ventinovesima edizione del Jazzdor, festival tenuto a Strasburgo e dintorni, anche oltre il confine con la Gemania, come vedremo. Questa volta è stato dedicato alla figura del contrabbassista Jean Jacques Avenel, spesso protagonista. Jazzdor si è oramai consolidato come uno dei più importanti festival europei, senza concorrenza in un periodo in cui le manifestazioni di grosso calibro sono finite oppure in gestazione per il prossimo anno. ...

Live Review

Charles Lloyd New Quartet at The National Concert Hall

by Ian Patterson
November 28, 2014

Charles Lloyd New Quartet National Concert Hall Dublin, Ireland November 18, 2014 At seventy six, saxophonist/flutist and composer Charles Lloyd could be forgiven for resting on his considerable laurels. Most musicians, however, are reluctant to trade the buzz of live performance for the free bus pass and Lloyd is no exception. Lloyd still performs in the major concert halls and at the most prestigious jazz festivals around the world to standing ovations and glowing ...

Live Review

Belgrade Jazz Festival 2014

by Nenad Georgievski
November 17, 2014

Belgrade Jazz Festival 2014 Dom Omladine, Dom Sindikata Belgrade, Serbia October 24-27, 2014 When back in 2005, the Dom Omladine Beograda decided to revive the Belgrade Jazz Festival, which was abruptly discontinued due to happenings in the Balkan's region, the organization faced with two mounting tasks--in a very short time it had to create a festival that had to live up to the dizzying heights and reputation that the festival had in the past ...

Album Review

Charles Lloyd: Manhattan Stories

Read "Manhattan Stories" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
October 29, 2014

Since 2008 the non-for-profit label Resonance has put out a number rare historic, previously unreleased, recordings. Saxophonist John Coltrane's 1966 Temple University concert Offering: Live at Temple University (Resonance, 2014) and pianists Tommy Flanagan and Jaki Byard's 1982 duet at Keystone Korner The Magic of 2 (Resonance, 2011) are a couple examples from this treasure trove. Similarly Manhattan Stories is saxophonist Charles Lloyd's two live dates from 1965 the first at Judson Hall and the second at Slugs' Saloon.

Album Review

Charles Lloyd: Manhattan Stories

Read "Manhattan Stories" reviewed by Vic Albani

by Vic Albani
October 20, 2014

È sempre più raro che il mercato discografico possa riesca a mettere le mani su, e poi pubblicare, gemme di particolare bellezza magari dimenticate in qualche cassetto oppure mai pubblicate prima per i più svariati motivi. Con l'incredibile meticolosità di sempre, la Resonance di Zev Feldman e George Klabin recupera oggi due scintillanti concerti di sua maestà Charles Lloyd proprio negli anni di sua maggiore creatività. Manhattan Stories racconta l'incontro di quattro giganti del jazz della metà degli anni Sessanta: ...

Extended Analysis

Charles Lloyd: Manhattan Stories

by Dan Bilawsky
October 1, 2014

Manhattan Stories is a trip back in time, a journey to a long gone and long-missed era. It's a window into the great Charles Lloyd's art at a period of transition. The shows presented on this beautifully packaged two-disc set--one recorded at the infamous Slugs' Saloon in the summer of 1965, the other recorded at Judson Hall in September of the same year--took place shortly after Lloyd left the employ of Cannonball Adderley and before he became a cross-over sensation ...

Album Review

Charles Lloyd: Manhattan Stories

Read "Manhattan Stories" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
September 24, 2014

In most cases, the folklore of a happening is much stronger than the actual event. The “older I get, the better it was" credo applies to so much of the remembered past. Not so for the only documented recordings by Charles Lloyd's Quartet of guitarist Gábor Szabó, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Pete La Roca. Lloyd who, in 1965, had left his residency as musical director for Chico Hamilton and member of Cannonball Adderly's band, gathered Szabó (from ...