Charles Lloyd: Arrows Into Infinity
Charles Lloyd: Arrows Into Infinity Charles Lloyd's story is a special one, and it intersects with important moments in jazz history. Booker Little was a childhood friend, Phineas Newborn a mentor.…
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Charles Lloyd: Arrows Into Infinity
Charles Lloyd's story is a special one, and it intersects with important moments in jazz history. Booker Little was a childhood friend, Phineas Newborn a mentor. He grew up in Memphis had early contact both to masters of an increasingly sophisticated jazz tradition and the raw voices of the blues.
He befriended Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry and Billy Higgins in a period when blueprints for musical freedom were redrawn, and replaced Eric Dolphy in Chico Hamilton's band, soon building a reputation as an exceptional saxophonist and a composer of strikingly original melodies. In his teens Lloyd hit the road with Howlin' Wolf. His own groups drew together some of the most exciting players of the day, and his late 60s quartet with Keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette made an impact at many levels, playing opposite Hendrix Janis Joplin at the Fillmore Auditorium, touring Europe's festivals to grea