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Charles Lloyd: Passin' Thru
by Mark Sullivan
Passin' Thru is a live recording celebrating the 10th anniversary of saxophonist Charles Lloyd's New Quartet with pianist Jason Moran, bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Eric Harland. The full band was last heard from on record on Athens Concert (ECM, 2011). When Lloyd reconvened the quartet for a tour in the summer of 2016 he was in a bit of a retrospective mood, curious to revisit some of his earlier music from a more mature perspective. After a ...
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by Ian Patterson
Billed as a ten-year celebration of Lloyd's New Quartet featuring Eric Harland, Reuben Rogers and Jason Moran, this 2016 live set actually marked the quartet's first extended tour in over three years and its first release since the extraordinary Athens Concert (ECM, 2011) -an indication of the difficulties of keeping together a working group of contemporary stars. Inevitably perhaps, this set draws heavily from Lloyd's lovingly dog-eared songbook, yet an exercise in nostalgia, this is not. The ...
Continue ReadingCharles Lloyd: The Winds Of Grace
by Ian Patterson
At seventy nine years young Charles Lloyd is showing no signs of slowing down. The summer months see the Memphis saxophonist/flautist on the North American and European festival circuits with his quartet of Gerald Clayton, Reuben Rogers and Eric Harland, followed by dates with The Marvels, Lloyd's most recent group, featuring Bill Frisell, Greg Leisz, Rogers and Harland. The latter formation's baptism came with the acclaimed I Long to See You (Blue Note, 2016), and the good news ...
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by Dan Bilawsky
Admit it. You were wondering if Charles Lloyd's post-millennial quartet was no more. Am I right? We haven't really heard from that group in a while, so nobody could blame you for thinking it. When Lloyd made the jump to Blue Note Records in 2015, his opening salvo came in the form of a six-part suite that brought him into contact with a new crew that blended Greek mysticism and jazz currents in equal parts; then, when ...
Continue ReadingCharles Lloyd New Quartet: Passin' Thru
by Angelo Leonardi
Alla soglia degli ottant'anni Charles Lloyd continua a mostrare la vivacità e l'energia di un trentenne. Abbiamo appena terminato d'apprezzare la collaborazione con Bill Frisell, Greg Leisz e altri nel progetto The Marvels (I Long to See You Blue Note 2016) che la storica etichetta annuncia la pubblicazione di Passin' Thru, terzo disco del suo New Quartet con Jason Moran al pianoforte, Reuben Rogers al contrabbasso ed Eric Harland alla batteria. Il disco giunge nel decimo ...
Continue ReadingCharles Lloyd & The Marvels with Lucinda Williams: Masters Of War
by Dan Bilawsky
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose (The more things change, the more they stay the same) --Jean-Baptiste Alphonse KarrMore than half a century has come and gone since Bob Dylan penned “Masters of War," yet the song's message remains as relevant as ever. On January 20, 2017--the very day that Donald Trump took the Oath of Office and became the 45th President of the United States of America--saxophonist Charles Lloyd joined a rapidly growing chorus of ...
Continue ReadingCharles Lloyd: A Wild, Blatant Truth
by Ian Patterson
Charles Lloyd: A Wild, Blatant Truth Josef Woodard 229 Pages ISBN: 978-1-935247-13-5 Silman-James Press 2016 A book on Charles Lloyd--one of the most celebrated and enigmatic jazz musicians of the past fifty years--has been a long time coming. It's been a while in the making too, for author Josef Woodard spent twenty five years doing the groundwork, repeatedly interviewing Lloyd, following his career for Downbeat/JazzTimes and other publications and even traveling on ...
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