Live Music On Double LP!
NEA Jazz Master saxophonist and musical truth-seeker Charles Lloyd reconvenes his remarkable New Quartet with pianist Jason Moran, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Eric Harland and takes us on another mystical journey with this live recording of Lloyd's original compositions.
Saxophonist, flutist, composer, and jazz mystic Charles Lloyd releases his latest Blue Note offering, Passin Thru, a passionate live recording that marks the 10th anniversary of his acclaimed and enduring New Quartet featuring pianist Jason Moran, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Eric Harland, a simpatico unit that teems with intuition, contemplation and playfulness. The album is a dynamic seven-song collection of Lloyd compositions old and new including the swinging and gleeful title track Passin Thru (first recorded in 1963 when Lloyd was a member of the Chico Hamilton Quintet).
Lloyd formed his first quartet in 1965 featuring soon-to-be jazz stars pianist Keith Jarrett, bassist Cecil McBee and drummer Jack DeJohnette. Throughout his career he has returned to the quartet format, but he considers his New Quartet formed a decade ago a landmark group nonpareil. He elaborates: Its a small planet, and we are just passing through on our journey to One. Every now and then there are important intersections. This quartet with Jason, Reuben and Eric coalesced very organically in April 2007. From the notes of our first concert, I knew that it was a magical formation.
In the summer of 2016, Lloyd reconvened the New Quartet for their first extended tour in several years. In fact, Passin Thru opens with the very first song performed on that tour: Dream Weaver recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival on June 30 (the song was originally recorded on his first quartets 1966 debut album of the same name). The remaining six pieces were drawn from the bands sublime performance at The Lensic in Santa Fe, New Mexico on July 29. Lloyd dedicated that concert, as well as this album, to the memory of his dear departed friend Judith McBean (the closing piece Shiva Dreams was a prayer and meditation for her.)
When asked why he chose to reexamine songs from his past on Passin Thru, Lloyd responds, Passin Thru and Dream Weaver are among my many children. They left home and came back. I left home and came back. When we visit with each other we find we have more stories to tell. As they have matured, I have too. When I go out now, I bring many more years of experience that I did not have as an idealistic young man.
Lloyd marvels at how the New Quartet members have spread their wings in different ways. However, he adds, when we come together as a unit, we find the music and love has only grown deeper. The bond of our shared experiences on and off the stage informs and expands the music. A span of 10 years covers a lot of territory, but in the time frame of the Universe, it is a mere nanosecond.
Charles Lloyd is a vital pillar of the triumvirate of living jazz saxophone legends that includes Wayne Shorter and Sonny Rollins. He has spent his entire career on a journey to innovatively explore the spiritual realms of wonder and beauty.
Features:
Double LP
Gatefold jacket
Musicians:
Charles Lloyd, saxophone, flute
Jason Moran, piano
Reuben Rogers, bass
Eric Harland, drums
Selections:
Side A:
1. Dream Weaver
Side B:
1. Part 5, Ruminations
2. Nu Blues
Side C:
1. How Can I Tell You
2. Tagore On The Delta
Side D:
1. Passin' Thru
2. Shiva Prayer
NEA Jazz Master saxophonist and musical truth-seeker Charles Lloyd reconvenes his remarkable New Quartet with pianist Jason Moran, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Eric Harland and takes us on another mystical journey with this live recording of Lloyd's original compositions.
Saxophonist, flutist, composer, and jazz mystic Charles Lloyd releases his latest Blue Note offering, Passin Thru, a passionate live recording that marks the 10th anniversary of his acclaimed and enduring New Quartet featuring pianist Jason Moran, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Eric Harland, a simpatico unit that teems with intuition, contemplation and playfulness. The album is a dynamic seven-song collection of Lloyd compositions old and new including the swinging and gleeful title track Passin Thru (first recorded in 1963 when Lloyd was a member of the Chico Hamilton Quintet).
Lloyd formed his first quartet in 1965 featuring soon-to-be jazz stars pianist Keith Jarrett, bassist Cecil McBee and drummer Jack DeJohnette. Throughout his career he has returned to the quartet format, but he considers his New Quartet formed a decade ago a landmark group nonpareil. He elaborates: Its a small planet, and we are just passing through on our journey to One. Every now and then there are important intersections. This quartet with Jason, Reuben and Eric coalesced very organically in April 2007. From the notes of our first concert, I knew that it was a magical formation.
In the summer of 2016, Lloyd reconvened the New Quartet for their first extended tour in several years. In fact, Passin Thru opens with the very first song performed on that tour: Dream Weaver recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival on June 30 (the song was originally recorded on his first quartets 1966 debut album of the same name). The remaining six pieces were drawn from the bands sublime performance at The Lensic in Santa Fe, New Mexico on July 29. Lloyd dedicated that concert, as well as this album, to the memory of his dear departed friend Judith McBean (the closing piece Shiva Dreams was a prayer and meditation for her.)
When asked why he chose to reexamine songs from his past on Passin Thru, Lloyd responds, Passin Thru and Dream Weaver are among my many children. They left home and came back. I left home and came back. When we visit with each other we find we have more stories to tell. As they have matured, I have too. When I go out now, I bring many more years of experience that I did not have as an idealistic young man.
Lloyd marvels at how the New Quartet members have spread their wings in different ways. However, he adds, when we come together as a unit, we find the music and love has only grown deeper. The bond of our shared experiences on and off the stage informs and expands the music. A span of 10 years covers a lot of territory, but in the time frame of the Universe, it is a mere nanosecond.
Charles Lloyd is a vital pillar of the triumvirate of living jazz saxophone legends that includes Wayne Shorter and Sonny Rollins. He has spent his entire career on a journey to innovatively explore the spiritual realms of wonder and beauty.
Features:
Double LP
Gatefold jacket
Musicians:
Charles Lloyd, saxophone, flute
Jason Moran, piano
Reuben Rogers, bass
Eric Harland, drums
Selections:
Side A:
1. Dream Weaver
Side B:
1. Part 5, Ruminations
2. Nu Blues
Side C:
1. How Can I Tell You
2. Tagore On The Delta
Side D:
1. Passin' Thru
2. Shiva Prayer
