Charles Lloyd Quartet

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Sombrero Sam 00:00 Tools
Desolation Sound 00:00 Tools
Go Down Moses 05:59 Tools
I Fall in Love Too Easily 00:00 Tools
Caroline, No 00:00 Tools
The Water Is Wide 00:00 Tools
Monk's Mood 00:00 Tools
Mirror 00:00 Tools
La Llorona 00:00 Tools
Autumn Sequence 00:00 Tools
Ruby, My Dear 00:00 Tools
Lift Every Voice And Sing 00:00 Tools
Love Ship 00:00 Tools
Dream Weaver: Meditation, Dervish Dance 00:00 Tools
Tagi 00:00 Tools
Migration of Spirit 00:00 Tools
Prometheus 00:00 Tools
Dwija 00:00 Tools
Love-In 00:00 Tools
Sweet Georgia Bright 00:00 Tools
Booker's Garden 00:00 Tools
Rabo de Nube 00:00 Tools
Ramanujan 00:00 Tools
Bird Flight 00:00 Tools
Being and Becoming 00:00 Tools
La Colline de Monk 00:00 Tools
How Can I Tell You? 00:00 Tools
Bharati 00:00 Tools
Little Wahid's Day 00:00 Tools
Bizzare 00:00 Tools
Tagore 00:00 Tools
Karma 00:00 Tools
Being And Becoming, Road To Dakshineshwar With Sangeeta 00:00 Tools
Dream Weaver 00:00 Tools
Fish Out Of Water 00:00 Tools
Ol' Five Spot 00:00 Tools
Love In - Live Version 00:00 Tools
Tribal Dance 00:00 Tools
Haghia Sophia 00:00 Tools
The Dirge 00:00 Tools
Wilpan's - Live In Norway 00:00 Tools
Tales Of Rumi 00:00 Tools
Days And Nights Waiting - Live Estonia USSR 00:00 Tools
Eyes Of Love 00:00 Tools
Here There And Everywhere 00:00 Tools
Manhattan Carousel 00:00 Tools
Sombrero Sam (Remastered Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Tellaro 00:00 Tools
Temple Bells - Live Version 00:00 Tools
European Fantasy 00:00 Tools
Sunday Morning 00:00 Tools
Third Floor Richard 00:00 Tools
Requiem 00:00 Tools
Ne Me Quitte Pas 00:00 Tools
Lady Day 00:00 Tools
Hej Da! 00:00 Tools
Lotus Land (To Thakur And Trane) 00:00 Tools
Tribal Dance - Live Estonia USSR 00:00 Tools
Memphis Dues Again - Island Blues - Live Version 00:00 Tools
Journey Within 00:00 Tools
Tribal Dance - Live 00:00 Tools
El Encanto 00:00 Tools
Temple Bells 00:00 Tools
Forest Flower - Sunrise 00:00 Tools
Night Blooming Jasmine 00:00 Tools
Angel Oak Revisited 00:00 Tools
Temple Bells [Live Version] 00:00 Tools
Love Song To A Baby - Live Estonia USSR 00:00 Tools
Love In [Live Version] 00:00 Tools
Of Course, Of Course 00:00 Tools
Speak Low 00:00 Tools
Here, There And Everywhere - Live Version 00:00 Tools
Journey Within [LP Version] 00:00 Tools
Song 00:00 Tools
Sweet Georgia Bright - Live Estonia USSR 00:00 Tools
Love-In / Island Blues 00:00 Tools
Ken Katta Ma Om (Bright Sun Upon You) 00:00 Tools
Lonesome Child: Song / Dance - Live At The Fillmore 00:00 Tools
Is It Really The Same - Live Version 00:00 Tools
Jumping The Creek 00:00 Tools
Canon Perdido 00:00 Tools
The Sufi's Tears 00:00 Tools
Nocturne 00:00 Tools
Tribal Dance [Live Estonia USSR] 00:00 Tools
Speak Low - Live in Norway 00:00 Tools
Wilpan's 00:00 Tools
Temple Bells (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Is It Really The Same (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Memphis Dues Again - Island Blues [Live Version] 00:00 Tools
Sorcery 00:00 Tools
Forest Flower - Sunrise [Live@Monterey] 00:00 Tools
Sunday Morning - Live Version 00:00 Tools
Song Of Her 00:00 Tools
Sombrero Sam - Remastered Version 00:00 Tools
Come Sunday 00:00 Tools
Is It Really The Same 00:00 Tools
Forest Flower - Sunset 00:00 Tools
Caroline No 00:00 Tools
East Of The Sun 00:00 Tools
How Can I Tell You 00:00 Tools
Lonesome Child: Song / Dance (Live At The Fillmore) 00:00 Tools
Gypsy '66 00:00 Tools
Both Veils Must Go 00:00 Tools
Memphis Dues Again - Island Blues (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Song Of The Inuit 00:00 Tools
Love-In / Island Blues - Live In Norway 00:00 Tools
Canto 00:00 Tools
Love Song To A Baby [Live Estonia USSR] 00:00 Tools
Being and Becoming, Road to Dakshineswar With Sangeeta 00:00 Tools
Sister 00:00 Tools
Journey Within - Live At The Fillmore 00:00 Tools
Goin' To Memphis / Island Blues 00:00 Tools
Journey Within (Live At The Fillmore) 00:00 Tools
Memphis Green (Live At The Fillmore) 00:00 Tools
Gypsy '66 - Live In Norway 00:00 Tools
Georgia Bright Suite: 1. Pythagoras At Jeckyll Island / 2. Sweet Georgia Bright 00:00 Tools
Sam Song 00:00 Tools
When Miss Jessye Sings 00:00 Tools
The Blessing 00:00 Tools
Lonesome Child: Song / Dance [Live @ The Fillmore] 00:00 Tools
Takur 00:00 Tools
Love No. 3 (Live At The Fillmore) 00:00 Tools
Amarma 00:00 Tools
Monk In Paris 00:00 Tools
Glimpse 00:00 Tools
Forest Flower '69 00:00 Tools
Love No. 3 - Live At The Fillmore 00:00 Tools
Is It Really the Same? 00:00 Tools
I Fall in Love Too Easily (Cahn/Styne) 00:00 Tools
Days and Nights Waiting (Live Estonia USSR) 00:00 Tools
Memphis Green - Live At The Fillmore 00:00 Tools
Durga Durga 00:00 Tools
Go Down Moses (Traditional) 00:00 Tools
Nachiketa's Lament 00:00 Tools
Monk's Mood (Monk) 00:00 Tools
Sombrero Sam (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Figure In Blue, Memories Of Duke 00:00 Tools
Imke 00:00 Tools
Here, There and Everywhere (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Love In (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Wilpan's (Live In Norway) 00:00 Tools
M 00:00 Tools
Desolation Sound (Lloyd) 00:00 Tools
La Llorona (Traditional) 00:00 Tools
Voice In The Night 00:00 Tools
Caroline, No (Asher/Wilson) 00:00 Tools
Mirror (Lloyd) 00:00 Tools
Goin' To Memphis / Island Blues - Live In Norway 00:00 Tools
Forest Flower 00:00 Tools
Love Song to a Baby 00:00 Tools
The Water Is Wide (Traditional) 00:00 Tools
Ruby, My Dear (Monk) 00:00 Tools
Little Peace 00:00 Tools
I Fall in Love Too Easily (For Lily) 00:00 Tools
Brother On The Rooftop 00:00 Tools
Lift Every Voice And Sing (Johnson) 00:00 Tools
Tribal Dance (Live) 00:00 Tools
Memphis Green 00:00 Tools
Bird Flight (LP version) 00:00 Tools
Days of Wine and Roses 00:00 Tools
Pre-Dawn 00:00 Tools
Tagi (Lloyd) 00:00 Tools
Sweet Georgia Bright (Live Estonia USSR) 00:00 Tools
Love In 00:00 Tools
Love No. 3 00:00 Tools
Memphis Dues Again , Island Blues 00:00 Tools
Love-In / Island Blues (Live In Norway) 00:00 Tools
Memphis Dues Again - Island Blues 00:00 Tools
Memphis Dues Again / Island Blues 00:00 Tools
Being And Becoming, Road To Dakshineshwar With Sangeeta (Lloyd) 00:00 Tools
Sombrero Sam [LP Version] 00:00 Tools
Gypsy '66 (Live In Norway) 00:00 Tools
Days And Nights Waiting 00:00 Tools
Speak Low (Live in Norway) 00:00 Tools
Pilgrimage To The Mountain (Part 1 Persevere) 00:00 Tools
Little Anahid'S Day 00:00 Tools
Ruby My Dear 00:00 Tools
Pilgrimage To The Mountain (Part 1 Presevere) 00:00 Tools
Pilgrimage To The Mountains (Part 2 Surrender) 00:00 Tools
Lonesome Child: Song / Dance 00:00 Tools
Mississippi Blues - Live: Gyllene, Cirkeln, Stockholm, Sweden April 29th 1966 00:00 Tools
Sombero Sam 00:00 Tools
Tribal Dance - Live: Gyllene, Cirkeln, Stockholm, Sweden April 29th 1966 00:00 Tools
Forest Flower '69 [LP Version] 00:00 Tools
Lady Gabor 00:00 Tools
Forest Flower - Sunset [Live@Monterey] 00:00 Tools
Journey Within - Live @The Fillmore 00:00 Tools
Tribal Dance (Live Estonia USSR) 00:00 Tools
Love Song To A Baby (Live Estonia USSR) 00:00 Tools
Sorcery [Live@Monterey] 00:00 Tools
Days And Nights of Waiting 00:00 Tools
Prayer 00:00 Tools
Love Ship (LP version) 00:00 Tools
Memphis Green (Live @ The Fillmore) 00:00 Tools
Pilgrimage To The Mountain (Part 2 Surrender) 00:00 Tools
East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon) - Live: Gyllene, Cirkeln, Stockholm, Sweden April 29th 1966 00:00 Tools
The Water Is Wide ( Mirror 2010 ) 00:00 Tools
Love Ship - Live: Gyllene, Cirkeln, Stockholm, Sweden April 29th 1966 00:00 Tools
Bizarre 00:00 Tools
Here, There and Everywhere 00:00 Tools
Love Ship - Live: Studio 1, Cologne October 25th 1966 00:00 Tools
Song Of Her (Live@Monterey) 00:00 Tools
How Can I Tell You- 00:00 Tools
Memphis Green - Live @ The Fillmore 00:00 Tools
Journey Within (Live @The Fillmore) 00:00 Tools
Love No. 3 (Live @ The Fillmore) 00:00 Tools
Love No. 3 - Live @ The Fillmore 00:00 Tools
Love No.3 00:00 Tools
Karma (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Tagore (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Sunday Morning - Live 00:00 Tools
Sunday Morning (Live Version) 00:00 Tools
Goin' To Memphis / Island Blues (Live In Norway) 00:00 Tools
Dream Weaver: Meditation, Dervish Dance (LP version) 00:00 Tools
Memphis Dues Again/Island Blues 00:00 Tools
Island Blues - Live: Juan-Les-Pins Jazz Festival, Antibes July 23rd 1966 00:00 Tools
Love Song To A Baby - Live: Gyllene, Cirkeln, Stockholm, Sweden April 29th 1966 00:00 Tools
The Best Thing for You 00:00 Tools
Little Wahid's Day (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
East Of The Sun (Live@Monterey) 00:00 Tools
Island Blues 00:00 Tools
Blow Wind 00:00 Tools
Hej Da! (Hey Daw) 00:00 Tools
The Song My Lady Sings 00:00 Tools
Ruby, Mr Dear 00:00 Tools
Love Song To A Baby - Live: Studio 1, Cologne October 25th 1966 00:00 Tools
Autumn Sequence - Live: Juan-Les-Pins Jazz Festival, Antibes July 23rd 1966 00:00 Tools
Autumn Sequence (LP version) 00:00 Tools
going to memphis - island blue 00:00 Tools
Sun Dance 00:00 Tools
Manhattan Carousel (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Days And Nights Waiting (Live Estonia USSR) 00:00 Tools
European Fantasy (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
God Give Me Strength 00:00 Tools
Passin' Through 00:00 Tools
Dream Weaver: Meditation/Dervish Dance 00:00 Tools
Lonesome Child: Song/Dance 00:00 Tools
07 - Mirror 00:00 Tools
Dream Weaver: Meditation / Dervish Dance 00:00 Tools
gypsy 00:00 Tools
Hymn To The Mother 00:00 Tools
Autumn Sequence: Autumn Prelude/Autumn Leaves/Autumn Echo 00:00 Tools
Zoltan 00:00 Tools
Tone Poem 00:00 Tools
05 - Caroline, No 00:00 Tools
12 - Tagi 00:00 Tools
04 - La Llorona 00:00 Tools
06 - Monk's Mood 00:00 Tools
09 - The Water Is Wide 00:00 Tools
Manhattan Carbusel 00:00 Tools
10 - Lift Every Voice and Sing 00:00 Tools
08 - Ruby, My Dear 00:00 Tools
11 - Being and Becoming 00:00 Tools
Lady Day - Live At The Copenhagen Jazz Festival, 1983 00:00 Tools
Autumn Sequence: Autumn Prelude / Autumn Leaves / Autumn Echo 00:00 Tools
Love Ship - Live: Juan-Les-Pins Jazz Festival, Antibes July 23rd 1966 00:00 Tools
Very Early 00:00 Tools
wilpans 00:00 Tools
Michel 00:00 Tools
Love In / Island Blues 00:00 Tools
Sweet Georgia Bright (Live Estonia USSR) 00:00 Tools
Karma (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
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Charles Lloyd (born March 15, 1938) is an American jazz musician. Though he primarily plays tenor saxophone and flute, he has also occasionally recorded on alto saxophone and more exotic reed instruments. Lloyd's saxophone playing is often characterized as an individualized, lighter-toned variant of John Coltrane's style. His best known composition is "Forest Flower". Lloyd was born in Memphis, Tennessee. From an early age, he was immersed in that city's rich musical life and was exposed to jazz. He began playing the saxophone at the age of 9 and took lessons from pianist Phineas Newborn. One of his closest friends was trumpeter Booker Little. Lloyd became a sideman in the blues bands of B. B. King, Howlin' Wolf, Bobby "Blue" Bland and others. In 1956 Lloyd moved to Los Angeles and earned a music degree from the University of Southern California. During this period Lloyd played in the big band of Gerald Wilson. From 1960 to 1963 Lloyd played in the band of drummer Chico Hamilton and became its musical director. Though the band was known for playing "chamber jazz" at the beginning of Lloyd's tenure, his influence as a composer and a player quickly pushed it in a more progressive post-bop direction. Lloyd's key musical partner in the band was the guitarist Gábor Szabó. In 1964 Lloyd left Hamilton's group to play with alto saxophonist Cannonball Adderley. During this period he recorded two albums as a leader for Columbia Records; his sidemen were other young musicians including Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams. Through 1966-1968 Lloyd led a quartet with pianist Keith Jarrett, bassist Cecil McBee (afterwards, Ron McClure), and drummer Jack DeJohnette, that producer George Avakian signed to a contract with Atlantic Records. The quartet's music was an interesting fusion of straight-ahead post-bop, free jazz, and soul jazz. The group's music quickly caught on with both jazz fans and critics. Somewhat surprisingly, they also achieved a fair amount of crossover success with young rock fans and became the first jazz group to play in The Fillmore. The album Forest Flower became a big commercial hit, largely on the strength of the title track. Other noteworthy albums include Dream Weaver and Love-In. In 1968, after the quartet's demise, Lloyd entered a state of semi-retirement. Despite recording several albums during the 1970s and occasionally appearing as a sideman, he practically disappeared from the jazz scene. During the 1970s Lloyd played extensively with The Beach Boys both on their studio recordings and as a member of their touring band. In the late 1970s Lloyd was a member of Celebration, a band composed of members of the Beach Boys' touring band as well as fellow Transcendental Meditation followers Mike Love and Al Jardine. Celebration released two albums. Upon being approached by pianist Michel Petrucciani in the early 1980s, he resumed playing actively. From 1989, Lloyd toured actively and recorded for the ECM label. Although his playing had not changed much stylistically since his groundbreaking work in the 1960s, these recordings showcased his sensitivity as a ballad player. Noteworthy albums include Canto, Voice in the Night, The Water Is Wide (featuring Brad Mehldau, John Abercrombie, Larry Grenadier and Billy Higgins) and Lift Every Voice (featuring Geri Allen). Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.