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Charles Lloyd: Arrows Into Infinity
by John Kelman
Charles Lloyd Arrows Into Infinity ECM Records 2014 It's rare to have an opportunity to see a music film in both the theatre and the comfort of your own home, but a serendipitous invite to the 2013 Jazztopad Festival in Wrocław, Poland not only provided the chance to hear saxophonist Charles Lloyd premiering a new work, commissioned by the festival, with an entirely new group; it also presented, in a movie theatre, Arrows Into ...
Continue ReadingCharles Lloyd at the Musical Instrument Museum
by Patricia Myers
Charles Lloyd and Sangam Musical Instrument Museum Phoenix, Arizona March 9, 2014 Saxophonist Charles Lloyd, who has continually reinvented his musical style since the late 1960s, delivered a deluge of sound and rhythm changes in a spell-binding concert that integrated avant-garde jazz with elements of Asian and Eastern European music. Performing with tabla master Zakir Hussain and percussionist Eric Harland, the acoustic union known since 2004 as Sangam created free-flowing invention. Lloyd, 75, ...
Continue ReadingDetroit Jazz Festival 2013
by C. Andrew Hovan
2013 Detroit Jazz FestivalDetroit, MichiganAugust 30-September 2, 2013Summing up the modus operandi that seemed to characterize so much of the performances at this year's Detroit Jazz Festival, one might sagaciously go with the phrase 'wild abandon.' Now in its 34th year of existence, the festival still boasts the title of “largest free jazz festival in North America." Musician Chris Collins in his sophomore effort as artistic director continues to hone his skills in putting together this cumbersome ...
Continue Reading2013 Montreal Jazz Festival: June 28-July 2, 2013
by John Kelman
Festival International de Jazz de MontréalMontréal, CanadaJune 28-July 7, 2013After taking a year off to curate an All About Jazz Presents: Doing It Norway at Norway's 2012 Kongsberg Jazz Festival, it was great to return to the city that hosts what must surely be the largest jazz festival in the world. Where else can an artist like Stevie Wonder open up the festival with an outdoor Grand Spectacle, in front of nearly a quarter of a million ...
Continue ReadingCharles Lloyd: Quartets
by AAJ Italy Staff
Gli anni sessanta sono stati quelli di un quartetto formidabile - l'album Forest Flower registrato dal vivo al Monterey Jazz Festival del 1966 fu tra i primi a raggiungere il milione di copie vendute - che avrebbe fatto conoscere in Europa un giovane pianista di nome Keith Jarrett. Gli anni settanta lo vedono dapprima abbandonare la musica e dedicarsi alla meditazione trascendentale, complice la scomparsa della madre, poi pubblicare sporadicamente qualche album, con il Beach Boys Mike Love, in territori ...
Continue ReadingCharles Lloyd / Jason Moran: Hagar's Song
by Enrique Turpin
No habrá que pasar por alto que la grabación de Hagar's Song no está producida por Manfred Eicher, sino por el propio Charles Lloyd junto con su mujer y mánager Dorothy Darr. El asunto debió de surgir de un modo natural, mientras el matrimonio observaba tal vez una de las fantásticas puestas de sol que se dejan ver desde la villa de Montecito en la que viven, en los alrededores de Santa Barbara, en California. Las bonanzas del Pacífico propiciaron ...
Continue ReadingCharles Lloyd: Quartets
by John Kelman
ECM's Old & New Masters Edition series was not just created to bring material back into print. Some has been available on CD before, but an even bigger carrot for fans of the label is material that has never been on compact disc, like bassist Arild Andersen's three 1970s recordings, collected on Green in Blue (2010), or first-time full two-CD reissues of double albums like guitarist Terje Rypdal's Odyssey (1975), which also includes a previously unreleased live set, or pianist ...
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