Happy 80th Birthday, Charles Lloyd

[Cyril]

Happy 80th Birthday to the great Charles Lloyd !!!

http://www.bluenote.com/news/charles-lloyd-celebrates-his-80th-birthday

 

[Hardbopjazz]

Happy Birthday and all the best to a great all around person. 

[medjuck]

Going to a birthday concert tonight.  (One of his guest artists is Booker T!)  

[Hardbopjazz]

 

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Nice tapestry. 

 

Edited March 15, 2018 by Hardbopjazz

[medjuck]

13 hours ago, Hardbopjazz said:

 

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Nice tapestry. 

 

They showed film of this (and other photos/films from Lloyd's history) on the walls of the concert hall tonight. 

Booker T played second half of show on B3 while Gerald Clayton sat out. Don Was sat in on acoustic base for a couple of numbers.  And yes, they did play Green Onions.   Clayton returned on piano and played  Happy Birthday.  The audience very quickly joined in. 

[Milestones]

Happy anniversary, Mr. Llloyd.  I've been listening to your  wonderful music for a long time.

I recently acquired Passin' Thru and Acoustic Masters I.

 

[Justin V]

I need to pick up more of Charles Lloyd's music.  I hope he had a happy birthday.  I'll have to spin Which Way Is East soon.  I think that it is a moving recording documenting a close friendship between two deep musicians.

[Gheorghe]

Saw him once in 1983 with that great quartet with Michel  Petrucciani, Palle Danielsen I think and the young drummer Sunship. I also have the album they did for Electra Musician shortly after his comeback.

But I think he had the most succes just before I became interested in jazz. When I started to study all that music and heard all the day long Miles, Mingus, Trane, Ornette and all of them, I didn´t really know about Charles Llyod but guys maybe 5 , 6 years older were from that flower power generation when Charles Llyod was something like a hero, best selling jazz artist or very near to it. 

 I got to spin two of his albums from the 60s with quite straight ahead stuff, with the great group Keith, McBee, Jack DeJohnette. I liked them though I must say if I want to hear something from the 60´s I listen more to  Trane, to Joe Henderson, Sam Rivers, Wayne Shorter .

[Guy Berger]

8 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

I got to spin two of his albums from the 60s with quite straight ahead stuff, with the great group Keith, McBee, Jack DeJohnette. I liked them though I must say if I want to hear something from the 60´s I listen more to  Trane, to Joe Henderson, Sam Rivers, Wayne Shorter .

Lloyd's best 1960s music: the stuff w/Cannonball & Chico, plus the 2 Columbia albums, plus Dream Weaver.  There's some good stuff on the Atlantic albums but it's almost all at least a tier lower.