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Lloyd McNeill

Born: April 12, 1935

Lloyd McNeill (born in Washington, D.C.) was a jazz flutist and visual artist based out of New York City. He is generally recognized as a jazz flutist of eminent ability, alongside James Newton, Yusef Lateef, Sam Rivers, James Moody, Bobbi Humphrey and Eric Dolphy.

Having studied Art and Zoology in Morehouse College, Atlanta, he moved on to be the first recipient of Howard University's MFA degree (1963). In 1964-5, he did further study in Lithography at Paris' L'Ecole Nationale Des Beaux Arts. During his residence in France, he spent a considerable amount of time with Pablo Picasso and his wife, Jacqueline in Cannes. He has also studied music composition privately with the composer Hale Smith, music theory and flute technique with the jazz musician Eric Dolphy, and classical flute technique and repertoire with Harold Jones. McNeill taught at several institutes of higher education, and was Professor Emeritus of Mason Gross School of the Arts, at Rutgers University, New Jersey, having retired in 2001. Through the 1970s, and in addition to his position in Art, McNeill also taught Afro-American Music History, private flute lessons, and was instrumental in launching the Jazz Studies Program at Rutgers University.

Maddeningly Unintuitive Japanese Software

by Patrick Burnette
January 12, 2023

The robots are coming! The robots are coming! And they're after our jobs—as lounge singers. Skynet would not be amused. But we kind of are—at least, Mike says his first encounter with a vocaloid will be ever imprinted upon his brain. Don't worry—this episode isn't all about our electronic replacements qua masters. We look at music ...

Cecil McAwesome

by Patrick Burnette
February 27, 2020

Inspired by bassist Cecil McBee's star-turn on Lloyd McNeill's Elegia, the boys devote a whole episode to examining works led by Cecil or just plain enhanced by his presence. He's had a wide-ranging career as a side-man so they cherry-pick what highlights they can while wondering if the next setting on the engineering knob after “10" ...

Black Fire! New Spirits! Radical And Revolutionary Jazz In The U.S.A. 1957 - 1982

By Lloyd McNeill

Label: Soul Jazz Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Chang, Chang, Chang; It's A Trip; Utopia And Visions; Dealin'; Blasé; Angela's Angel; Universal Spiritual Revolt; Flashback Of Time; Second Line March; In The Moog; The Banjo Lesson; Tzaddi Vau (Part 1); Black Narcissus; Spaces And Things;

New Thing!

By Lloyd McNeill

Label: Soul Jazz Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Street Rap; Funky Aeco; Angels And Demons At Play; Pentatonia; Tibetian Serenity; Duo Exchange; Money Blues; Forest Sunrise; Have Mercy Upon Us; A Love Supreme; Home Rule; Little Sunflower; Androids; Black Rhythm Happening; El Space-O; Lalune Blanche;

Amazon

By Thiago de Mello

Label: Jazz Station Records
Released: 1999

Dom Um Romao

By Dom Um Romao

Label: Soul Brother Records (3)
Released: 1990
Track listing: Dom's Tune; Cinnamon Flower; Family Talk; Ponteio; Braun-Blek-Blu; Adeus Maria Fulo; Shake (Ginga Gingou); Wait On The Corner; Lamento Negro; Highway; The Angels; The Salvation Army; Kitchen (Cosinha);

Elegia

By Lloyd McNeill

Label: Soul Jazz Records
Released: 1980
Track listing: Samba For The Animals; Behind The Wind [Flute Solo]; Asha II; Elegiac Suite For Elizabeth; Striped Pants [With Cadenza]; Memory Cycle;

Tori

By Lloyd McNeill

Label: Soul Jazz Records
Released: 1978
Track listing: O Mercado (Brazilian Market); Tori (Segment One); Tzigane; Tori (Segment Two); Sambinha; Time Still / Passaro - Pifaro (Flute Bird); Tori (Segment Three); Tranquil;

The Great Pyramid

By Lloyd McNeill

Label: Solaris (2)
Released: 1976
Track listing: The Great Pyramid; Ahead Of Your Time; Mona Lisa; In The Land Of Mu; Upper Atlantis; Drifting;