Charles Lloyd - The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow 2024

Исполнитель: Charles Lloyd
Альбом: The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow
Жанр: Jazz
Год: 2024
Страна: USA (Memphis, Tennessee)
Лейбл: Blue Note Records
Формат: FLAC (tracks)
Official DR value: DR10
Разрядность: 24bit / 96kHz Stereo
Размер: 1,84 GB
Источник: qobuz
Инфо: wiki
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Among the major tenor saxophonists of the last 75 years, Charles Lloyd has always stood apart. Most of his peers were based in New York but Lloyd, a Memphis native, often worked out of the West Coast. He frequently collaborated with rock musicians in the 1960s and 1970s, including the Beach Boys, the Doors, Roger McGuinn, and others; at the time, it was uncommon for an important jazz figure to have such close ties to the rock scene. Those associations reveal an artist open to new sounds as he follows his own path.

Decades later, the octogenarian continues to be a singular force, and on the excellent 2024 release, The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow, he leads a stellar new band: pianist Jason Moran, bassist Larry Grenadier, and drummer Brian Blade. Lloyd revisits older material with fresh ears, and the double album also includes six new compositions along with versions of the spiritual, "Balm in Gilead," and J. Rosamond Johnson and James Weldon Johnson's hymn, "Lift Every Voice and Sing."

On the opener, "Defiant, Tender Warrior," which features an arrangement by Lloyd and Moran, Blade deftly deploys rumble, clatter, and hiss to create a foundation and an enveloping atmosphere. Lloyd's fluttering high notes, just-so breathiness, and speedy note-flurries sensitively play off Moran's take on the piece's tender melody.

Lloyd's sole alto sax performance occurs on the title cut, one of the album's new pieces. At first, the track sounds like a loosened-up version of bebop, but soon Moran's dissonant piano changes the vibe. A groove that recalls Keith Jarrett (a former Lloyd sideman), emerges, and a spare, bluesy section follows. Wherever the music goes, the engaged quartet brings it to full flower.

On "Beyond Darkness," Lloyd displays a warm, nicely shaded tone on alto flute. Blade's rolls and cymbal hits, Grenadier's groove, and Moran's impressionistic lines create a gentle pelagic ambience for Lloyd's lyrical explorations. Beyond darkness, indeed, this is wonderfully blissed-out music.

"Defiant, Reprise; Homeward Dove" looks back to the opener. The two tracks perfectly bracket an album that gracefully takes the listener on a journey with Lloyd and his sensitively attuned band. As the last notes sound, there is a sense of a cycle completed.

Трэклист:

01. Defiant, Tender Warrior
02. The Lonely One
03. Monk’s Dance
04. The Water Is Rising
05. Late Bloom
06. Booker’s Garden
07. The Ghost of Lady Day
08. The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow
09. Beyond Darkness
10. Sky Valley, Spirit of the Forest
11. Balm In Gilead
12. Lift Every Voice and Sing
13. When the Sun Comes Up, Darkness Is Gone
14. Cape to Cairo
15. Defiant, Reprise; Homeward Dove

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