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Charles Lloyd Quartet: Rabo de Nube

by Stuart Broomer
June 6, 2008

Charles Lloyd has an obvious knack for assembling bands; it's been apparent since he first launched his quartet in the mid '60s with Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette and Cecil McBee or Ron McClure. In the decades following he's often employed fine musicians with very different styles, including pianists Michel Petrucciani and Geri Allen, guitarist John Abercrombie ...

Charles Lloyd New Quartet in San Francisco

by Eric Benson
April 20, 2008

Charles Lloyd New Quartet Herbst Theater San Francisco March 28, 2008 Is there a point at which deeply spiritual music becomes too ethereal for its own good? A point at which both message and music are lost on an earth-bound audience? John Coltrane's late-career immersion in the spiritual through turning ...

Charles Lloyd: Rabo De Nube

by Budd Kopman
March 17, 2008

Jazz is a magical thing that exists, paradoxically, both in the unique existential moment of creation, never to happen again and on record, where crystallizing the ephemeral is attempted. Hearing jazz live can be a peak experience, but barring that, listening to a good recording of a great concert can come close, albeit vicariously. Rabo de ...

Charles Lloyd Quartet: Rabo De Nube

by John Kelman
March 13, 2008

Woodwind multi-instrumentalist Charles Lloyd has traversed considerable musical territory with nary a misstep across a dozen albums, since joining the ECM fold in 1989. Still, as undeniably fine as albums including Sangam (2006), Jumping the Creek (2005) and Which Way is East (2004) are, what Lloyd's been missing is a consistent line-up to rival his mid-1990s ...

Charles Lloyd Quartet: Rabo De Nube

by Chris May
March 4, 2008

It's fitting that the shimmeringly beautiful Rabo De Nube, which is being released to celebrate reed player Charles Lloyd's 70th birthday on March 15, 2008, is a live album. Lloyd became a star forty years ago with a series of paradigm-shifting live discs recorded on a seemingly never-ending tour of the USA and Europe--seven of them ...

Lotus Blossom

Featuring the music of Charles Lloyd
Duration: 9:55
January 26, 2008

Charles Lloyd: His Mystical Journey

by Matt Leskovic
September 20, 2007

The life of Charles Lloyd has truly been the proverbial “long, strange trip." The master reedman experienced an unmatched level of popularity for a jazz musician in the late 1960s. Lloyd (b. 1938) and his quartet, which featured a young Keith Jarrett on piano and Jack DeJohnette on drums, packed clubs and ...

Sangam

By Charles Lloyd

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Dancing on One Foot; Tales of Rumi; Sangam; Nataraj; Guman; Tender Warriors; Hymn to the Mother; Lady in the Harbor; Little Peace.

A Mystical Sangam: Charles Lloyd at the Library of Congress, Nov. 8, 2006

by Erik R. Quick
November 22, 2006

Although his emergence over forty years ago with Chico Hamilton's “chamber jazz organization and his appearance with Cannonball Adderley's group in 1964 provided a firm foundation within the jazz tradition, Charles Lloyd has surpassed conventional boundaries and expected means of musical expression. Indeed, when French pianist Michel Petrucciani coaxed Lloyd from his contemplative retirement in the ...

Charles Lloyd: Sangam

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 25, 2006

Storico perlustratore dei più diversi universi musicali, Charles Lloyd ha una considerevole conoscenza della musica orientale; non è perciò un caso che, nell’affrontare un concerto commemorativo del grande batterista e suo collaboratore Billy Hiddings, abbia scelto di esibirsi in un trio includente, accanto ad Eric Harland (batterista del suo quartetto), anche Zakir Hussain, virtuoso indiano della ...