Charles Lloyd, John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, Billy Higgins
Release Date: 07 June 2019
Label: ECM
Packaging Type: Gate Fold Vinyl
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 602577426674
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
Charles Lloyd's sixth ECM album was both a departure and a homecoming for the Memphis-born and California-based tenorist, introducing new music and revisiting archive favourites - including the epic "Forest Flower". With his "Scandinavian" band currently on hold, this is as close to an all-American unit as any band Lloyd has led since the 60s. (Dave Holland qualifies by now as an honorary American). ECM veteran John Abercrombie is in strong form throughout and the joyous beat of the great Billy Higgins keeps everything dancing, from the roots music of "Pocket Full Of Blues" to a sublime cover of Strayhorn's "A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing".
"Lloyd responds with some of his finest playing in years...He is aided enormously by his musical companions, an all-star ensemble if ever there was one... As musically appealing as it is commercially viable" - Don Heckman, L.A. Times
Personnel: Charles Lloyd (tenor saxophone), John Abercrombie (guitar), Dave Holland (double bass), Billy Higgins (drums, percussion)
Tracklisting
Norma Winstone & Kit Downes
Oded Tzur
Kenny Wheeler, Lee Konitz, Dave Holland & Bill Frisell
Fred Hersch
John Taylor, Norma Winstone & Kenny Wheeler
Keith Jarrett & Jan Garbarek
Jan Garbarek Quartet
John Surman
Nigel Price Organ Trio
Conrad Herwig
Norma Winstone & Kit Downes
Oded Tzur
Su Rossy Girod, Nat Su, Jorge Rossy
Jonathan Salvi Arugula Sextet
Bob Baldwin
Steven Nichols
