![]() ![]() Note that in the early days he collaborated with Keith Jarrett, who I mentioned before made a series of stunning orchestral composed works in the mid-seventies that blew me away since I only knew him from the interminable solo Koln concert records. Then as you'd expect came a break in the 80s before he resurfaced and returned to great productivity in the nineties and after the millenium. Of interest is that he did range over an immense number of styles in this period starting with the ordinary type jazz or modal in the sixties, as you'd expect, moving into rock-influenced country, psychedelic (the long-winded type of electric droning stuff that is), then a little bit of fusion but not much before settling in the late seventies with new agey long-winded droney stuff. I know it's snarky to state and I'm sorry. Of course since there is a load of 'junk dna' in these jazz records involving endless improvisations the actual genetic content is not the greatest, much like the human genome itself. Up until those dreaded eighties, in fact, he put out roughly one album per year. He did make an astonishing number of albums in this period beginning with Discovery in 1964 continuing on until the present day and into the future presumably too. He also plays flute, piano, tarogato and percussion. Born: 15 March 1938, Memphis, Tennessee, USAĬharles Lloyd is an Afro-American jazz saxophonist, living in Santa Barbara, California. ![]()
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