Charles Lloyd New Quartet

Charles Lloyd New Quartet

Saxophonist Charles Lloyd is a living icon of jazz, one of the greatest leaders and improvisators of all time, as well as an inexhaustible thinker that moved the borders of jazz through his innovations. After his experience with eminent blues (B.B. King, Howlin’ Wolf) and jazz musicians (Chico Hamilton, Cannonball Adderley), he founded a quartet with, the then anonymous, pianist Keith Jarrett and drummer Jack DeJohnette. They acquired great success at the Monterey Pop Festival. They were the first jazz band at Fillmore East, one of the first American ensembles that performed in USSR (outside establishment control) and one of the fist jazz musicians with a million records sold (the album “Forest Flower”). All this contributed for Lloyd to be chosen for the best jazz musician of 1967. Since 1989, he is the renowned member of ECM. Critics of the Down Beat magazine chose the album “Mirror” for the best record of 2010. The New Quartet members are famous jazz musicians, with Jason Moran on piano, Reuben Rogers on bass and Eric Harland on drums.