Results for "Jon Lloyd"

Jon Lloyd

Born: October 20, 1958

Anima

By Jon Lloyd

Label: JonLloydMusic / ECN Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: Build A Fire; Anima; Dancing; Southern Cross; Towards Tomorrow; Sheltering Sky; Priya; Altamira; Closer; (If) Only If; Winter Light.

Jon Lloyd: Anima

by Neil Duggan
September 24, 2026

Jon Lloyd Quartet's 2024 album Earth Songs (Ubuntu) racked up millions of streams. Anima sees the group building on that success with their distinctive blend of European contemporary jazz. Reflective melodies, inventive textures and spontaneity combine into a sound world of shifting moods, beauty and emotional appeal. The quartet lineup is unchanged from the ...

Jon Lloyd Quartet: Earth Songs

by Neil Duggan
March 16, 2025

Saxophonist Jon Lloyd has helped shape the UK jazz scene for several decades. Initially known for his energetic approach to free jazz, his creative ideas have gradually guided both himself and his group toward what he describes as “ECM quartet territory." Though ECM releases encompass a diverse range of musical styles, his description effectively evokes the ...

Jon Lloyd / John Law: Naissance

by Mike Jurkovic
February 12, 2025

It hardly matters whether or not Naissance goes down in musical history as one of the greatest or best-of piano/saxophone duet recordings. Comfortingly ethereal and most assured of itself, Naissance is a beautiful recording with a serenity and sense of open accomplishment all its own. British pianist/composer John Law and tenor/alto saxophonist Jon Lloyd ...

Naissance

By Jon Lloyd

Label: 33 Jazz
Released: 2024
Track listing: Cidron; Mode 1; Miserere; Meta; For Stan; Lamentations; Where Roses Are; Mode 2; Stabat; Fingernail Moon.

Earth Songs

By Jon Lloyd

Label: Ubuntu Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Al'Afiyah; Breaking the Waves; Cinq Feuilles; Flux; River; Meta Meta; Lanovo; Desert Song; The Trip; The Heron.

John Law's New Congregation: These Skies In Which We Rust

by Jakob Baekgaard
February 16, 2015

One of the things that is characteristic about British pianist John Law is that he does not stand still. He keeps on studying music and constantly adds new sounds and expressions to his vocabulary. So far, his career has included many highlights, among them, a series of solo piano albums influenced by plainchant ...

John Law: Deeper into the Music

by Jakob Baekgaard
November 4, 2009

Classical music and jazz are often perceived as two radically different art forms that cannot be merged. Historically, the idea of a so-called “third stream" that is able to combine the language of jazz and classical music into a coherent whole has proved rather difficult to translate into praxis, and yet it is undeniable that a ...

Four and Five

By Jon Lloyd

Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 1999