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Charles Lloyd / Jason Moran: Hagar's Song
by Ian Patterson
Saxophonist/composer Charles Lloyd's 16 albums for ECM since the late 1980s represent a body of work as important as the influential recordings he made for Columbia and Atlantic in the 1960s. Lloyd's recordings with his latest quartet, Rabo de Nube (2008), Mirror (2010), Athen's Concert (2011) and, now, Hagar's Song, stand together as a special chapter in Lloyd's ECM story for the often transcendental quality of the music. Pianist Jason Moran has been an integral part of Lloyd's quartet since ...
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by John Kelman
Looking back at Charles Lloyd's sizable discography as a leader, what's becomes immediately clear is that the saxophonist has shared a number of special, long-term musical relationships with pianists: first, Keith Jarrett, in the quartet that brought Lloyd considerable fame and commercial success in the 1960s; and then Bobo Stenson, when he returned from nearly two decades of relative inactivity as a leader (some of it spent recording and touring with The Beach Boys) and began an association with ECM ...
Continue ReadingBMW Jazz Festival 2012
by Ross Eustis
BMW Jazz FestivalVia FunchalSão Paulo, BrazilJune 8-10, 2012 To borrow a word commonly associated with BMW cars, this is a luxury festival. The BMW Jazz Festival debuted one year ago, in 2011, in São Paulo, Brazil. With handsome funding from BMW Financial Services-Bank Group in Brazil, the young festival experienced wild success in its first year--tickets sold out within hours. The demand indicated two things: world-class music and an audience eager to hear it. The ...
Continue ReadingCharles Lloyd Quartet: Love-In
by Chris May
Charles Lloyd QuartetLove-InAtlantic1967 Four-and-a-half decades after the event, saxophonist Charles Lloyd's Love-In, recorded live at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium in 1967, the counterculture's West Coast music hub, endures as much as an archaeological artifact as a musical document. From sleeve designer Stanislaw Zagorski's treatment of Rolling Stone photographer Jim Marshall's cover shot, through the album title and some of the track titles ("Tribal Dance," “Temple Bells"), and the inclusion of John ...
Continue ReadingCharles Lloyd / Maria Farantouri: Athens Concert
by Ian Patterson
What might on the surface appear as a meeting of disparate minds--jazz with Byzantine airs--ignores the fact that multi-reed/woodwind player Charles Lloyd has been embracing the music of the world for half a century with singular conviction and grace. Greek classical singer Maria Farantouri is herself a musical adventurer and risk taker; over the course of fifty years, she has collaborated with guitarist John Williams, Turkish composer Zulfu Livaneli, Cuban guitarist/composer Leo Brouwer, electronic legend Vangelis and saxophonist Jan Garbarek. ...
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by John Kelman
When ECM enticed him back into action in 1989, who knew that reed/woodwind multi-instrumentalist Charles Lloyd's career wouldn't just kick-start, it would signal a period of ascendancy that's moved from one creative height to another ever since? Two decades later, his stable quartet of young Americans rivals the stellar group responsible for Atlantic megahits including 1966's Dream Weaver and 1968's Forest Flower. Blasphemous to some, perhaps, but Lloyd's so-called New Quartet--no longer exactly new, since pianist Jason Moran, joined existing ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Charles Lloyd è musicista che non deve dimostrare nulla a nessuno. Sta attraversando le vicende della musica afroamericana da più di cinquant'anni tra momenti di grande forza creativa e fasi più rilassate e convenzionali. E vanta diversi meriti tra cui quello di aver portato per primo in tournè in Europa un giovanissimo Keith Jarrett e di essere stato tra i primi a capire le grandi potenzialità della musica non occidentale, contribuendo a diffondere quella che poi sarebbe diventato etno-jazz. Quindi, ...
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