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Charles Lloyd New Quartet Sweet Georgia Bright
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Charles Lloyd New Quartet Booker's Garden
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Charles Lloyd tenor saxophone Jason Moran piano Reuben Rogers bass Eric Harland drums
Charles Lloyd
New Quartet with Jason Moran, Reuben Rogers
& Eric Harland sunday, april 25, 7PM palace of fine arts theatre
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A towering musical figure, Charles Lloyd carries on the unifying mission of such truth seekers as Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane. The tenor saxophonist and flutist developed a trademark sound early on and Lloyd uses his gifts to explore how we connect to each other and the world around us. After coming to prominence with Chico Hamilton in 1961, Lloyd attained near rock-star status during the late ‘60s with Forest Flower, Love-In and an album recorded live in the Soviet Union—during a time when jazz was still discouraged by the Communists. This period also solidified the reputations of his star sidemen, Keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette. Transcendental meditation connected Lloyd to both Big Sur and the Beach Boys, but by 1989 he signed with the illustrious ECM label and began another 20-year run of phenomenal recordings. For this SFJAZZ date Lloyd appears with a new quartet, featuring the prolific young pianist Jason Moran. The same group is featured on Rabo de Nube (Tail of a Cloud), Lloyd’s latest ECM album.

“Follow the career of the saxophonist Charles Lloyd, who just turned 70, and you see a map of great jazz across half a century... His shows, full of momentum and intuition, perfectly represent the idea that the best jazz needs to be experienced live.” The New York Times “Charles Lloyd has raised his performances to a strikingly high level of achievement... The listener is taken on a journey through gravity-less improvisational space. To the credit of Lloyd and his players, that journey is illuminated by one musical enlightenment after another.” Los Angeles Times