Charles Lloyd News

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 ...

In the course of my regular jazz-blogging duties, I run across lots of online music videos that are worth watching but don't necessarily fit the StLJN format.

Kevin Maynor, the artistic director of Trilogy AOC company, was rushing off to rehearsal for the latest incarnation of "Emmett Till." The Newark-based opera company will present a free staged performance of the ...

Jazz might seem to be the ultimate meritocracy, but talent alone provides no guarantee that a musician's career will thrive.

Gent Jazz might not enjoy the high profile of certain other European festivals, but its line-up can easily compete with most and surpass many.

For more than forty years, Charles Lloyd has been the small combo leader making distinctively impressionistic and soulful kind of small combo jazz.

Over the last three weeks, StLJN's sibling site Heliocentric Worlds has featured music videos starring Ella Fitzgerald, Average White Band, the Ensemble InterContemporain, Miles Davis, John Tchicai and Tony ...

The lakeside Eurotel hotel in Montreux is preparing to open the doors of a 'Charles Lloyd Room' to coincide with the annual jazz festival.

Randall Kline, the Executive Director of SFJAZZ - 'the leading non-profit jazz organization on the West Coast and the presenter of the San Francisco Jazz Festival today announced the complete artist line-up for ...

Charles Lloyd was responsible for a ton of words at the New York Society for Ethical Culture on Saturday night.

Arturo Sandoval plays for a sold-out crowd Saturday in Nathan Phillips Square at the Toronto Jazz Festival.

Jason Moran's piano is the thread connecting three new recordings, all of them relating to jazz, yet each distinct.

People Will Talk In a time where innovation is too often measured by complexity and abstrusity, there are still those who value the resonance of a good melody and the selfless approach of an ensemble for whom ...

SHOW OF THE WEEK: Saxophonist Charles Lloyd , the jazz legend in our zip code, turned 70 in March, and is bringing sagacity and vibrancy to his current work life.

Subsequent Lloyd quartet pianists have included Michel Petrucciani, Bobo Stenson, Brad Mehldau, and Geri Allen.

The potential that Charles Lloyd's current quartet is as significant as its first release is satisfying. via Glide Magazine

“THE CANNONBALL ADDERLEY SEXTET IN NEW YORK”

Skanner Menu The Skanner's Weekly Poll The process of gentrification has both positive and negative consequences for people living in a historically low-income area. via The Skanner

“Late night talk/On a tenor/With the dead/And the shadows they cast.”

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. via J.B. Spins

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The 2008 JVC Jazz Festival - New York, presented by The Festival Network, LLC , lights up the city June 15 - 28 with 38 spectacular concerts plus nearly 200 additional events at clubs, schools, museums, retail ... via Press Release News From 24-7 Press Re...

Dear All On tonight's show you either heard or missed the following:- Zakhir Hussain with John McLaughlin- CD Making Music DJ Bruno LT- CD Promo Uber System Charged- see below for gig information Karsh Kale- CD ... via Powerspot