Jazz Articles about Charles Lloyd

Charles Lloyd: The Water Is Wide

by Glenn Astarita
September 1, 2000

Tenor saxophonist Charles Lloyd pursues a slightly different angle on his new and seventh “ECM” release titled, The Water Is Wide. Lloyd continues to utilize the exemplary talents of drummer Billy Higgins and guitarist John Abercrombie, who both performed on the artist’s previous effort, Voice In The Night. While the saxophonist also enlists young wunderkind pianist Brad Mehldau and bassist Larry Grenadier who comprise two thirds of the pianist’s working trio.

Perhaps Lloyd is plotting a new course in contrast ...

Charles Lloyd: The Water Is Wide

by David Adler
September 1, 2000

Not much could have gone wrong with this disc. Lloyd, one of jazz’s most distinctive tenor stylists, kept Billy Higgins and John Abercrombie on board from last year’s Voice In the Night, adding Brad Mehldau on piano and Larry Grenadier on bass. Abercrombie, however, only appears on four of the 12 tracks. Most of the session belongs to Mehldau, frankly. His duets with Lloyd on “Ballade and Allegro" and “The Monk and the Mermaid" feature some of his most sensitive ...

Charles Lloyd: The Water Is Wide

by Glenn Astarita
September 1, 2000

Tenor saxophonist Charles Lloyd pursues a slightly different angle on his new and seventh “ECM” release titled, The Water Is Wide. Lloyd continues to utilize the exemplary talents of drummer Billy Higgins and guitarist John Abercrombie, who both performed on the artist’s previous effort, Voice In The Night. While the saxophonist also enlists young wunderkind pianist Brad Mehldau and bassist Larry Grenadier who comprise two thirds of the pianist’s working trio.

Perhaps Lloyd is plotting a new course in contrast ...

Charles Lloyd: Just Before Sunrise

by Paula Edelstein
July 1, 1999

Just Before Sunrise is classic Charles Lloyd reissued in a series produced by Joel Dorn for The Masked Announcer. For those of you that love and remember the original 1966 recordings of DREAM WEAVER and LOVE-IN, this box set is a burning reminder of the afterglow left by Lloyd’s great flute and tenor sax playing. The debut of the Dream Weaver quartet -- Lloyd doubling on flute and tenor sax, Keith Jarrett on piano, Cecil McBee on bass and Jack ...

Charles Lloyd: Voice in the Night

by Larry Koenigsberg
May 1, 1999

Although Voice in the Night marks Charles Lloyd's return after over three decades to recording with guitar rather than piano as the chordal instrument, the most notable feature of his new CD is his return to form, as opposed to merely a return to format. He sounds the best he has since he left his Big Sur retreat to perform and record for ECM with Michel Petrucciani and Bobo Stenson. Indeed, the whole band sounds on, in this sequence of ...

Charles Lloyd: Just Before Sunrise

by Jim Santella
May 1, 1999

The reissue of two mid-1960’s Charles Lloyd Quartet Atlantic albums comprises this 90-minute 2-CD set from 32 Jazz. Offering leading-edge hard bop fire with spotlights on all four members of his quartets, Lloyd traveled around the world to spread this message. In the past few years, Joel Dorn’s 32 Records has reissued a wide selection of work by significant jazz artists including Woody Shaw, Eddie Harris, Etta Jones, Donald Byrd, Roland Kirk, Yusef Lateef, Mark Murphy and Groove Holmes. Their ...

Charles Lloyd: Just Before Sunrise

by Douglas Payne
May 1, 1999

After memorable time spent with Chico Hamilton and Cannonball Adderley's influential bands, reedman Charles Lloyd launched a solo career with several top-notch records on Columbia in 1964. But it wasn't until moving to Atlantic Records in 1966 and the formation of this defining quartet that the talented Coltrane disciple earned his own place in jazz - and a remarkable degree of fame too.By this time, Lloyd's tone on tenor had become readily identifiable and his (still) ...