Located at 431 W 16th St
New York, NY 10011
between 9th and 10th Ave
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Charles Lloyd featuring Jason Moran, Reuben Rogers, and Eric Harland
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July 3,2009
Concert starts @ 8PM
Doors open @ 6 PM
Tickets $35.00
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Full dinner menu available / General Admission Seated Show / All Ages / First come, first seated / $10 min per person at tables
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At 71 when most individuals are thinking of ways to slow down and kick back, Charles Lloyd has shifted to a higher gear and keeps going higher. To celebrate his 70th birthday in March of 2008, he released his first live quartet recording in over twenty-five years, “ Rabo de Nube” on ECM Records. His New Quartet with Jason Moran on piano, Reuben Rogers on bass, and Eric Harland drums, brought European audiences to their feet during their first tour
together in the Spring of 2007. Now in Spring of 2009, they have just returned from a series of sold out concerts from Vienna to Istanbul.
"Charles Lloyd’s approach to performance is quite different. The more Lloyd goes inside himself the more he draws his audience in.
With Jason Moran on piano, Eric Harland on drums, and Reuben Rogers on bass, Lloyd once again has a group able to follow his
excursions into the music and into the mystic. Lloyd is one of the greats, rather like Joan Miro in modern art, he has no peer save himself. Music of total transport and delight." Duncan Heining, Jazzwise, UK July 2007
Credited by many musicians with anticipating the World Music movement by incorporating cadences of many cultures in his compositions as early as the late1950s, Charles Lloyd describes his music as having always "danced on many shores." As Peter Watrous wrote in The New York Times, "Mr. Lloyd has come up with a strange and beautiful distillation of the American experience, part abandoned and wild, part immensely controlled and sophisticated."
From the moment he first came to prominence as the young music director of the Chico Hamilton Quintet in 1960, to his quartet that launched the careers of keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette, Lloyd began to take audiences on journeys that traversed enormous distances. Over nearly four decades, his compositions have punctuated the post-bop period, embraced the traditional music of a host of world cultures and ciphered the psychedelic 1960s with avant-garde improvisation. Lloyd was one of the first jazz artists to sell a million copies of a recording ( ‘Forest Flower’) and then he surprised us by walking away from performing just at the point that he was dubbed a jazz superstar. Actually he was just following a trajectory that was taking him closer to the essence of the music he was hearing. His concerts and recordings are events of pristine beauty and elegance, full of intensely felt emotion and passion that touches deep inside the heart.
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