Jazz Articles about Charles Lloyd

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Charles Lloyd Commemorates his 85th Year with a Memorable Performance at Jazz at Lincoln Center

by Dave Kaufman
October 19, 2023

Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) honored Charles Lloyd on the occasion of his 85th birthday, featuring him in two concerts. The Friday night performance (October 13) showcased his trio, Sangam, which includes tabla master Zakir Hussain and long-time Lloyd associate, drummer Eric Harland. I had the privilege of attending the Saturday evening concert on October 14th, where Lloyd performed with his “New Quartet," comprising Reuben Rogers on bass, Eric Harland on drums, and Jason Moran on piano, musicians who have ...

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A Few More of My Favorite 2022 Jazz Things, Part 1

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 28, 2023

Twelve months have gone by so fast, and so much has happened... At the beginning of the year we were still under various degrees of lockdown or social distancing, now we have a war, weather patterns and a financial situation that are crazier than ever. One positive thread through these months, however, has been the relentless pace at which creative musicians have brought us album after album of gorgeous music, which confirmed once more that musicians may be the last ...

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Pori Jazz 2022

by Rob Garratt
August 3, 2022

Pori Jazz 2022 Kirjurinluoto Concert Park Pori, Finland July 14-16, 2022 If this year's 55th annual Pori Jazz festival had a “moment," it was when Immanuel Wilkins invited Shabaka Hutchings to the stage as a surprise guest for a dazzling 14-minute duet that capped the former's spellbinding set, and set the intense tone for the latter's to come shortly after. A cross-generational sax-off lacking all ego or one-upmanship, this searing, sympathetic encounter ...

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Charles Lloyd: Trios: Chapel

by Dan McClenaghan
July 30, 2022

Blue Note Records has a history of boasting strong stables of players. In the 1950s and 60s, we could look to Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, trumpeter Lee Morgan, pianist Herbie Hancock, saxophonist Wayne Shorter--and if ever there was an incomplete list compiled, that one is it. Time rolls on. Twenty years (or thereabouts) into the new millennium, the label hosts an all-star roster once again--pianist Gerald Clayton, saxophonist Melissa Aldana, sax man Immanuel Wilkins, guitarist Julian Lage, and--to ...

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Rock Songs as Jazz with Charles Lloyd, Lisa Hilton and others

by Jerome Wilson
June 10, 2022

This show has jazz musicians interpreting a wide variety of rock and pop songs. There is Charles Lloyd playing Bob Dylan, Charlie Haden's Liberation Music Orchestra playing David Bowie and much more. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 The Bad Plus “Lithium" from For All I Care (Heads Up) 01:05 Roberto Magris “In The Wake Of Poseidon" from Suite! ...

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Gerald Clayton: Bells On Sand

by Chris May
April 9, 2022

It seems like an age since pianist Gerald Clayton's previous album, Happening: Live At The Village Vanguard (Blue Note, 2020), although it is actually only two years. But what traumatic years they were--and what an impact they have had on Clayton's new album. The Vanguard disc, recorded in spring 2019, was an often exuberant or otherwise intense affair, with saxophonists Logan Richardson and Walter Smith III, both of them capable of generating heat, featured on most of the ...

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Charles Lloyd at Padova Jazz Festival

by Roberto Cifarelli
November 28, 2021