Charles Lloyd Sky Quartet feat. Jason Moran, Larry Grenadier & Eric Harland (US)
Charles Lloyd Sky Quartet
feat. Jason Moran, Larry Grenadier & Eric Harland
US
Wednesday, 10 July, at 20.30
Križanke
Double bill
Charles Lloyd, sax, flute
Jason Moran, piano
Larry Grenadier, double-bass
Eric Harland, drums
Day pass for Wednesday, 10 July
(Charles Lloyd Sky Quartet + Chief Adjuah)
Presale (until 8 July):
EUR 36, 28*
Regular sale:
EUR 42, 36*
* EUR for younger than 25 and older than 65, as well as pensioners.
Charles Lloyd is a jazz eminence and an institution. He is one of the last still active saxophonist of the 1950s history-making saxophone generation, which includes Rollins, Coltrane and Coleman. As a teenager, Lloyd gained his first stage experience as a sideman for various prominent blues artists. In 1960, he landed a covetable position – becoming Chico Hamilton's music director – which included writing and arranging the music for his ground-breaking albums released in that time on Impulse!.
Lloyd recorded his first album as a leader exactly sixty years ago, in 1964, the same year he joined Cannonball Adderley Sextet. Work with Cannonball provided a major inspiration for a career in his own right, which led to the formation of Lloyd's first quartet, whose members – Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette and Cecil McBee – rendered it an immediate winner.
The line-up quickly achieved crossover success, their albums selling over one million copies, and the logical outcome ensued: in 1967, Charles Lloyd was voted "Jazz Artist of the Year" by DownBeat magazine.
In 1970 Lloyd withdrew completely from the scene, retreating to the Californian haven of Big Sur, releasing sporadic albums over the decade and occasionally performing with several rock bands as a sideman. In 1981, he eased his way back into the jazz world, formed a new quartet in 1988 and signed with the ECM label, which marked the beginning of a long and fruitful collaboration. In recent years, he has signed to another giant, Blue Note Records.
He returns to Slovenia for the first time after 2011 with the slightly reconfigured and nothing less than fantastic Sky Quartet. In 2024, Lloyd and the Quartet released an outstanding album, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow, a spiritual masterpiece and winner of The Guardian’s 5 stars out of 5. Lloyd and members of the combo enjoy a decades-long partnership in various formations; his co-players include one of the most compelling jazz pianists of the last two decades, Jason Moran, the double bass authority Larry Grenadier, and Eric Harland, the drummer who has introduced a breath of fresh air into jazz (works with Dave Holland, Ravi Coltrane...).
Please be advised that tonight’s concert is being filmed by Medici TV.
Cankarjev dom (Jazz Festival Ljubljana) hereby informs the concertgoers that film recordings will be published on the above-mentioned platform (video on demand) as of August 2024 for a period of five years.
