The Beach Boys Perform All This Is That With The Monster Saxaphonist Charles Lloyd

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Dream Weaver - The Charles Lloyd Anthology - The Atlantic Years 1966-1969

Beautiful and absorbing though most of them are, Charles Lloyd's discs on ECM, with whom the reed player has been recording for almost twenty years, have tended to overshadow the wonderful albums he made with the Charles Lloyd Quartet for Atlantic forty and more years ago.

With Atlantic, Lloyd notched up eight LPs recorded in the three years from 1966—radical discs which reflected the youth zeitgeist like no other jazz outfit—before the quartet imploded in the face of mutual suspicion and predatory rival bandleaders. That the music was instrumental and acoustic—without a Fender Rhodes or bass guitar in sight—made the achievement more remarkable.

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New Date Added to Summer European Tour

July 29th, Vaison la Romaine, Charles Lloyd and Eric Harland Duo
7pm in the Cite Medieval


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Hidden in Plain Sight

For more than forty years, Charles Lloyd has been the small combo leader making distinctively impressionistic and soulful kind of small combo jazz. His tenor's delicate, almost alto-like timbre is instantly recognizable from just a single note. His prolific periods of the late sixties and since the late eighties have produced consistently strong albums. Many stars have played in Lloyd's band, and in many cases, gotten their major career boosts playing behind him. Jack deJohnette, Cecil, McBee, Keith Jarrett and Michael Pettruciani all gigged in his group. And yet, Lloyd is oddly not often considered when the subject of major living figures in jazz comes up.

Charles Lloyd is the jazz legend who is hidden in plain sight.

There have been nearly an album a year from Lloyd since he came of of semi-retirement and signed with ECM Records about twenty years ago. It could be a daunting task just to decide where to start with his discography with that label since they're all serious efforts. When his latest Rabo de Nube was issued this past March, I was tempted to forgo writing about it, just because as good as I knew it was going to be, it's still "just another Charles Lloyd" album. That is, until I actually listened to it.

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Make Your Reservations Today!

The lakeside Eurotel hotel in Montreux is preparing to open the doors of a 'Charles Lloyd Room' to coincide with the annual jazz festival. Named after the saxophonist who was the first international artist to perform at the event 41 years ago, the restored room offers fans of jazz and 1960s memorabilia a time-stood-still experience.

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Charles Lloyd Performs at the New York Society for Ethical Culture

Charles Lloyd was responsible for a ton of words at the New York Society for Ethical Culture on Saturday night. At the outset of his JVC Jazz Festival concert, he called up Charles Simic, the poet laureate of the United States, who read a handful of nocturnal poems. Later, for a second encore, Mr. Lloyd recited passages from the Bhagavad-Gita over a gentle drone. And during the pauses between songs he was a torrent of allusive patter, drawing on a fount of vintage hipster recollections.

Click here for more on Charles Lloyd at the New York Times.

How it's done

Last night, Memphis native Charles Lloyd turned in a magical display of high-calibre improvisation at Enwave Theatre. Backed by a stellar collection of young bucks – pianist Jason Moran (who worked the piano over like it owed him money), bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Eric Harland – the 70-year-old flautist/saxist was as vigorous and inventive as anything going.

Click here for more on Charles Lloyd in the Toronto Star.

New Summer Dates Just Added

New Quartet with Jason Moran, Reuben Rogers and
Eric Harland:

July 8th The Arena, Milano, Italy

Duo with Jason Moran
19 Soulliac, France
20 Garana Jazz Festival, Garana, Roumania

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Healdsburg Jazz Festival from JazzInkBlog

"Charles Lloyd and his companions are nomadic storytellers, wandering through centuries and continents."

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Copenhagen Jazz Festival, July 4 to 13, 2008

Charles Lloyd Quartet

70-year-old saxophonist Charles Lloyd has played with some exceptional pianists in the course of his long career, starting with Phineas Newborn in his home town, with Joe Zawinul in the Cannonball Adderley group, and with Keith Jarrett, whom Lloyd introduced in his pioneering group of the 1960s. Subsequent Lloyd quartet pianists have included Michel Petrucciani, Bobo Stenson, Brad Mehldau, and Geri Allen. The latest incarnation of the Charles Lloyd Quartet includes the brilliant Jason Moran who finds his own, exciting way to play inside Lloyd's musical concepts as can be heard on the quartet's new (and brilliant) ECM release entitled “Rabo de Nube".

More about the Copenhagen Jazz Festival at All About Jazz.

Jazz this pure is hard to come by in 2008.

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Love for Lloyd: Jason Moran on Charles Lloyd

Charles falls in line with some of the great saxophonists I’ve gotten to work with, and he approaches the music with such openness. I like playing with leaders who let you bring what you’re going to bring to the table, and interpret the music however you’d like. And you’d think in jazz that that would be a popular notion, but it really is uncommon for leaders to actually, truthfully live by their word. And Charles is a great promoter of free-thinking music, and letting it develop on the spot. So every concert we play, each night it would go into different territories, and it just stayed open that way. He’s got great love . . .

Click here for more of Jason Moran's ruminations on Charles Lloyd.

Prometheus Gets 98 out of 100 - jazz.com

TRACK
Prometheus

RATING: 98/100
“Prometheus” borrows its thematic material from an older Lloyd composition “Hej Da!,” yet he allows his new group the freedom and space to make their own sense out of their leader’s tradition. Lloyd sounds invigorated—his shimmering, wide-ranging lines reach far and stretch unseen boundaries, yet magnificently retain an elegant, singing quality.

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Charles Lloyd at Seventy - jazz.com

Charles Lloyd has been called many things—mystical, mesmerizing, a shaman, and even a “tremendous dispenser of ecstasies.” Anyone who has seen him in concert knows that these lofty praises are not at all unjustified.

As he turned seventy years young this weekend, Charles Lloyd celebrated his birthday with the release of a new album for ECM, Rabo de Nube. The album—sincere, moving, and stimulating—is colored by the rainbows of the late 1960s, touched by the time-tested hand of the blues, and sprinkled by an exotic pinch of the Far East. Rabo de Nube continues many long-established traditions in Lloyd’s career and catalog. After releasing seven live records in the 1960s with his classic group, this is only the fourth he has released since, making it much anticipated and appreciated. Recorded in Switzerland in 2007, the new album brings Lloyd back to Europe, where in June 1966 he established himself as arguably the brightest star on the jazz horizon with a breakthrough performance at the Antibes Jazz Festival.

Click here for Matt Leskovic's full blog posting at jazz.com.

Slight Modifications to CL Summer Tour

July 23 Hyeres, France, duo with Jason Moran
August 2, Vannes, France, Sangam
August 29, Nantes, France, Sangam

The Poetic Charles Lloyd

There seems to be something almost otherworldly about Charles Lloyd. Steeped in the primeval blues of Memphis and informed by Eastern music and philosophy, Lloyd always pursues his own alchemy. His latest, Rabo de Nube a live set released within days of his seventieth birthday, proves Lloyd’s powers remain undiminished with the passage of years.

U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic contributed original verse for the liner, in an appropriate fit between poet and musician. Simic’s work combines the very real, concrete details of our world with a surreal vision of what lurks around the corner, just out of sight. Lloyd has always been very much of this world, grounded in the blues. Yet he is able to step outside it, with his searching flights of exploration.


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Charles Lloyd 2008 Summer Tour Schedule

2008 - Summer tour dates;

New Quartet with Jason Moran, Reuben Rogers and Eric Harland
Sangam with Zakir Hussain and Eric Harland

May
31 Healdsburg Jazz Festival, Healdsburg, CA

New Quartet with Jason Moran, Reuben Rogers and Eric Harland

June
1 Lobero Theater Santa Barbara, CA
25 Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival, Toronto, Canada
28 New York Ethical Society, JVC NY Jazz Festival
29 Saratoga Jazz Festival, Saratoga NY

July
4 Vienna Opera House, Vienna Austria
10 Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Copenhagen. Denmark
11 North Sea Jazz Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
13 Umbria Jazz Festival, Spoleto, Italy
15 Vitoria Jazz Festival, Vitoria, Spain
16 Villengen, Germany
17 Molde Jazz Festival, Molde, Norway
19 Soulliac, France
20 Garana Jazz Festival, Garana, Roumania

Sangam
30 Hyeres, France

August
1 Les Nuits des Fourvieres, Lyon, France
2 Nantes, France

New Quartet
13 Augsburg, Germany
14 Antwerp, Belgium
16 Oslo, Norway

Sangam
27 Dresden Opera House, Dresden, Germany
29 Vannes, France
30 Willisau, Switzerland

September
4 Cite de la Musique, Paris, France
6 Museu do Oriente, Lisbon, Portugal

Happy Birthday Charles!

Rabo de Nube Reviewed - All About Jazz

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 altogether, starting with Forest Flower (Atlantic, 1966) and ending with Soundtrack (Atlantic, 1968).
Intentionally or not, Rabo De Nube, recorded in Switzerland in 2007, and seeped in the same spirit as those momentous earlier performances, goes some way towards completing the circle.

Click here for Chris May's full review at allaboutjazz.com.

Online Preview of Charles Lloyd Quartet - Rabo de Nube

Click here to listen to Rabo de Nube at Charles Lloyd dot com.
Click here to pre-order Rabo de Nube at Amazon.

2008 Concert Schedule

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Charles Lloyd New Quartet w/ Jason Moran, Reuben Rogers and Eric Harland

March
27 Lensic Theater, Santa Fe, NM
28 Herbst Theater, San Francisco, CA
29 The Athenaeum, La Jolla, CA
30 Catalina's, Los Angeles, CA
31 The Triple Door, Seattle, WA

Trio with Jason Moran and Eric Harland
April
3-6 Blue Note Tokyo, Japan
9 Cully Jazz Festival, Cully, Switzerland

Quartet with Jason, Reuben and Eric

June
1 Lobero Theater, Santa Barbara, CA

July
11 North Sea Jazz Festival, Holland
15 Vitoria Gastiaz Jazz Festival, Vitoria, Spain

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Helio Sequence says: "The best show that I've ever seen"

"The best show that I've ever seen was the Charles Lloyd Quartet with Reuben Rogers, Geri Allen and the most amazing drummer I've ever seen, Eric Harland. Benjamin and I saw the show at the Portland Jazz Festival by happenstance. A friend of ours had tickets and couldn't go, so he gave them to me. The show blew our minds...it was really a spiritual experience."

Click here for the full article at Glide Magazine.

Charles Lloyd, Anime and Manga

No idea what a video of Charles Lloyd is doing on this website but it's a great performance.

Lotus Blossom
(Billy Strayhorn)

Charles Lloyd (ts)
Geri Allen (p)
Marc Johnson (b)
Billy Hart (ds)
John Abercrombie (g)

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Charles Lloyd Celebrating His 70th Birthday

Four days before celebrating his 70th birthday on March 15, 2008, Lloyd will release Rabo de Nube, his 12th recording for ECM and the first from his astounding new quartet. In the spring of 2007, Lloyd formed the new group for his European tour, an exciting formation with pianist Jason Moran, bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Eric Harland. The tour started in Porto, Portugal on April 18 and ended in Dublin on May 11. The concert in Basel was recorded for the new CD and was dubbed by the Swiss press, "the concert of the century."

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The Charles Lloyd Quartet on YouTube

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Ganga

Ganga has always been more than an ordinary river. For millions of Indians she is a goddess. Yet the river is exploited as much as she is worshipped.

Ganga is in danger of dying - but if the river dies, will the goddess die too?

The question took Julian on an extraordinary journey from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal.


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Charles Lloyd and Lift Every Voice

Fascinating podcast on Charles Lloyd and Lift Every Voice.

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Voice in the Night

Far and away the best album of Lloyd's surprising artistic comeback in the past decade. He's well-matched by his collaborators and the material is well-chosen -- even the remake of his famous "Forest Flower". (And the Costello/Bacharach tune was a nice if unlikely idea.) This disc was obviously conceived as a bit of a summing-up of Lloyd's career as well as a move forwards, and it works perfectly that way. Fantastic sound, as you might expect from ECM, and did I mention Charles himself is playing better than ever? (More focused, darker, more spiritual.)

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Nobel Committee and Sangam

The Nobel Committee has requested SANGAM, Charles Lloyd with Zakir Hussain and Eric Harland to perform during the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo on December 10th. This year the Nobel Peace Prize is shared by Al Gore and the head of the IPCC, Rajendra Pachauri. It was the personal request of the head of the IPCC, Mr. Pachauri, to invite Zakir Hussain to perform.

This is a beautiful way to end the year by making a contribution to an event and organization that has the same goals and ideals as the music makers themselves.

Al Gore and Mr. Pachauri both continue their important efforts to slow down the destructive process of global warming. The world, Mother Earth, is in need of all of our help in the most dire way. So we are very honored to make this contribution to the environment at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony through the vibrations of the music .


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A Jazz Secret Too Great to Conceal

"For jazz fans, this wasn't just another concert. This was church."

Click here to read GREG HAYMES's article at timesunion.com.

Charles Lloyd at The Egg

Those fans who have been attuned to Charles Lloyd's spiritual and creative journey for nearly a half century, a musical journey akin to John Coltrane's, and attended Sunday's show, were fabulously treated to a spiritual communion with this music icon and his very accomplished musical mates, Reuben Rogers, on bass, and Eric Harland, on drums. And we were sworn not to tell those who are "sleeping walking through the night." "This is between us," Lloyd mused.

Click here ot read the full review at AlbanyJazz.com.

All About Jazz - Mystical Journey

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 captivated festival audiences worldwide. Voted Jazzman of the Year by Down Beat Magazine in 1967, Lloyd was for a time the darling of both critics and fans. The Charles Lloyd Quartet played universities and the ballrooms and auditoriums of the psychedelic rock circuit, sharing stages with the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, the Byrds, and other 1960s psych-rock icons.

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CL in Korea

Finally, it is time for the headliner, the Legend: Tenor sax man, Charles Lloyd, who is 69, and is at the peak of his abilities. This man from Memphis, this musician who has played with B.B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Billy Higgins -- his soulmate, the jazz drum master, with whom he made the classic two-CD work, Which Way is East -- and others like Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Gerald Wilson, and the Beach Boys. This artist has come to Korea for the first time; he tours only rarely, but is always making music. He is a very spiritual person, an idealist about what music means, what it can do: "I want to change the world and make a better world, so we don't have to be loners like me."

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Downbeat Readers Poll 2007

It's voting time at Downbeat!

Glaringly missing from the click to enter category of #2 ARTIST, is Charles' name, so it needs to by typed in. Suggested voting is as follows:
1. Charles Lloyd ( click to select )
2. Charles Lloyd ( write in )
3. Charles Lloyd, Sangam ( click )
4. Charles Lloyd, Forest Flower ( write in )
5. Charles Lloyd Quartet ( write in )
6-9 as you wish
10. Alto: Charles Lloyd ( write in )
11. Tenor: Charles Lloyd ( click )
14. Flute : Charles Lloyd ( click )
23. Misc Instrument: Charles Lloyd, tarogato ( write in)
26. Composer: Charles Lloyd

Thank you.

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CL Interviewed on Metal Jazz

Metal Jazz has published a great interview with Charles Lloyd.
Here's a sampling of Charles in his element:

"When I play, time, it goes away, and the music is all that's going on. There's this vacuum state where you go to quantum mechanics, where before the creative process there's this trembling being, this quality of the infinite elixirs of the unmanifest, the absolute, before the absolute comes into the relative. That's the thing that I have adoration for. We live for these times when the music happens and we're whole."

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Sangam's Captivating World Rhythms

Sangam mesmerized its audience at the Library of Congress Wednesday with a performance that won't soon be forgotten. The latest project in veteran jazz composer Charles Lloyd's half-century exploration of world rhythms and harmonies teams the versatile musician with popular Indian tabla master Zakir Hussain and young virtuoso percussionist Eric Harland.

Click here for the full review at The Washington Post.

CHARLES LLOYD - VOICE IN THE NIGHT

As Lloyd plays variations on the melody, the band turns one harmonic sequence into a pillar from Coltrane's version of My Favorite Things and back. The Forest Flower suite is awesome. The interplay between Lloyd and Abercrombie is fully realized as they trade flatted sevenths and then Abercrombie moves into augmented ninths and diminished sixths before both Lloyd and he solo against the harmonic body of the tune while retaining its melodic sensibility. It's just breathtaking.

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Soundcheck at the Lobero

Made a time-lapse of the soundcheck for the Charles Lloyd Quartet at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara.

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2006 Monterey Jazz Festival/The Master Class

Lloyd's fluttery sound, full of foggy swoops and dodges, is one of the greatest things in jazz; you want to bottle it and keep it forever. He warmed up with a couple of quiet, ancient-sounding blues-tinged numbers and a ballad, holding his tenor sax at a weird angle and somehow channeling the spiritualism of John Coltrane through his own private brand of Sufi Pentecostalism.

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Great List of CL Links on Topix.net

Charles Lloyd in Our World
Jul 21, 2006 | J.B. Spins
Charles Lloyd visage graces recent covers of Downbeat , UK's Jazzwise and NY's All About Jazz , promoting his new ECM release Sangam.

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New Tour Dates Added

Sangam

November 3, SF Jazz, Palace of fine Arts
Nov. 8 Library of Congress, Washington DC

Charles Lloyd Quartet 

Feb 18, 2007 Portland Jazz Festival, Portland, OR

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CL on Wikipedia

Charles Lloyd (March 15, 1938-) is an American jazz musician. Though he primarily plays tenor saxophone and flute, he has also occasionally recorded on alto saxophone and more exotic reed instruments. Lloyd's saxophone playing is often characterized as an individualized, lighter-toned variant of John Coltrane's style. His best known composition is "Forest Flower".

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40th Anniversary of Forest Flower

The audience at the Monterey Jazz Festival in 1966 had no idea they were witnessing one of the most historic recording sessions in the annals of jazz. The recording of the set that day by The Charles Lloyd Quartet would soon become one of the biggest jazz hits of the era. The resulting release, Forest Flower became one of the first million selling jazz records and catapult Lloyd into the forefront of the 60's musical scene. The Quartet became a fixture on the psychedelic ballroom circuit and initiated many young rock listeners into jazz for the first time.

In honor of the 40th anniversary of that remarkable recording, Lloyd and his acclaimed working quartet-pianist Geri Allen, bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Eric Harland-revisit the classic music at this year's 49th Monterey Jazz Festival on the opening night of the three-day affair, Saturday, September 16 at 8pm on the Jimmy Lyons Stage in the main arena at the Monterey County Fairgrounds.

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Sangam and Of Course, Of Course

Charles Lloyd may, in many ways, be the ideal ECM artist of the new century. Certainly since returning to the label in the late ‘80s, his recordings, all with wonderfully diverse, yet all uniformly spiritual ensembles, have set a new standard for music that is simultaneously introspective and energetic.

Click here to read the full review at AllAboutJazz.com.

Capital Community News

The most recent issue of the Capital Community News features a Sangam review.

Click here to download the recent Capital Community News as a PDF.

The Weekend Planet

The album title - Sangam - is from India. So is one of the marvellously ‘unlikely’ trio who made it, ‘live’, one night in 2004 – a night so wonderful that by its end they knew their ‘one off’ meeting would become an ongoing alliance. Sangam means a confluence or a coming together, in various senses, sacred & secular.

Click here to read the full Sangam review at The Weekend Planet.

Vortex

"When the spirit is blowing, I know I have to hoist my sails to catch the breeze."
~ Charles Lloyd

Click here for the full Sangam review at VortexJazz.

All Things Considered

All Things Considered, June 25, 2006 ·
Sangam (SAHN-gahm) is a Hindi word that means confluence. It represents a meeting of rivers and a melding of waters.

The Sangam trio is a group that melds musical traditions. Jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd, Indian tabla master Zakir Hussain and the dynamic young drummer Eric Harland form the tributaries of this new sound.

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Jam bands, eat your hearts out!

The set list is improvised. Charles Lloyd and two master percussionists. Playing live. Improvising all the way. Jam bands, eat your hearts out. This is jazz, high-flying, soul-satisfying, musically virtuosic jazz, played the way it was meant to be, wild, wooly, and totally free. Of the 40 or so albums that Charles Lloyd has recorded in his half-century career, this one makes the top ten easy, maybe even the top five.

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Shows you shouldn't miss at S.F. Jazz Festival

- Charles Lloyd, Zakir Hussain, Eric Harland, Nov. 3, Palace of Fine Arts Theater Saxophonist Lloyd is currently making the best music of his career.

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Charles Lloyd: Confluence

“It’s all part of a continuum,” Charles Lloyd says about the music of his new trio with Zakir Hussain and Eric Harland. “Sangam is a confluence, a meeting—it’s a supercharged atmosphere when we get together. We play in the now, looking for the One. Zakir, Eric and I may come from different backgrounds, but it is a small planet and we are here on the homeward journey together.”

Click here to read the rest of Russ Musto's article at All About Jazz.

JVC JAZZ FESTIVAL

June 22
Also on that night, at Zankel Hall: Sangam. The saxophonist and flutist Charles Lloyd’s broad instincts come to the fore in his current trio, featuring the trap drummer Eric Harland and the tabla master Zakir Hussain. The three players find common ground between jazz and Eastern rhythms and modalities, and their playing is highlighted by Lloyd’s lyricism, Hussain’s virtuosity, and Harland’s responsiveness

Click here to see the full schedule for the JVC Jazz Festival at the New Yorker.

Sangam in New York

EVEN in an average week there tends to be too much jazz in New York for any one person to see. But the next two weeks are too-much squared, with two major jazz festivals, JVC and Vision, happening simultaneously and the city's nightclubs doing their best to keep up the momentum for concertgoers both local and international.

June 22

SANGAM (JVC) The new trio of the saxophonist Charles Lloyd, the Indian percussionist Zakir Hussain and the drummer Eric Harland proves Mr. Lloyd's curiosity and sensitivity. Where it could have been a baggy bridges-between-cultures project, it's totally condensed and alive, making the most of Mr. Lloyd's prized lyricism as well as of the two percussionists' melodic skills. 8:30 p.m., Zankel Hall; $50.

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CHARLES LLOYD - Sangam

Listen up: Charles Lloyd has long ago passed into ‘legendary’ status in the jazz community, and he stands on a par with any living musician, and quite a few who have already passed away as well. Ultimately, his influence on the music is enormous, from the peaceful, spiritual bent of his music, to his continued ability to produce fresh, high-quality music, to his tenor playing itself, muscular and roiled with post-Coltrane freedom, yet also lyrical and mystical. That even a musician of Lloyd’s advancing age and experience can find an idea fascinating and become re-invigorated by it is certainly an inspiration for the rest of us.

Click here to read the full article at Jazzitude.com.

Consistent Beauty

The stripped-down saxophone and percussion trio of “Sangam” makes it a successor to 2004’s excellent “Which Way Is East,” an intimate set of duets recorded in Lloyd’s living room with drummer Billy Higgins. Tabla master Zakir Hussain carries some of the melodic load, dropping quotes from Sonny Rollins’ “St. Thomas” and “The William Tell Overture” into a solo. Drummer Eric Harland is a revelation.

Click here to read the full review of Sangam at Style Weekly.

AllAboutJazz-New York June 2006 Issue Now Available!

Another reason to celebrate is the kickoff to the festival season. This issue highlights both the JVC Jazz Festival with our Cover story on saxophonist Charles Lloyd and the Vision Festival with our Interview (trombonist Paul Rutherford) and Artist Feature (drummer Hamid Drake).

Click here to read the news at AllAboutJazz.com.

I Lost My Heart at SLUGS

A very satisfying Set by the great Charles Lloyd, one Beautiful piece of Music after another. It was not that Band of Bands from the Good Old Days that really WERE the Good Old Days, of Slugs (the Five Spot, the Jazz Gallery, Café Bohemia, etc) but it was some wonderful Organic music by a musician who made that his Signature Style. May Charles Lloyd live on and on and ON. And HEY, as a final comment, since we don't have Trane no more, it's GREAT that we still got someone continuing that conception.

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