With this CD, saxophonist Charles Lloyd returned to prominence after lying low throughout the 1970s and much of the 1980s. His popular acclaim of the late 1960s and early 1970s, as a jazzman somehow appealing to the devotees of American pop psychedelia, was perhaps fortunately a distant memory as he rebuilt his musical persona around a quartet peopled with fine European players. Pianist Bobo Stenson would be the most prominent among those. Elements of the Coltrane sound are often present in Lloyd's yearning, mellifluous horn. At times, as in the moving "Dirge," the whole quartet harks to Coltrane's supreme band with McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones. Overall, the album is distinctly one for quiet listening in relaxed moments. Stenson, on the surface unobtrusive and unassuming, is a far cannier player than he first appears, and he well complements Lloyd who, as ever, quests for deliverance. --Peter Monaghan
Fish out of Water,Charles Lloyd Quartet,Ecm Records,Crossover Jazz,Hard Bop,Jazz,Jazz Music,Pop
Jazz Music:
- For you with love
- Fragile
- Freedom [Enhanced]
- Gerry Mulligan Plays Mulligan
- Give It All You've Got [Import]
- Got Swing!
- Gravy Waltz: Best Of Herb Ellis
- Greenlight
- Hawk in Paris [Original recording remastered] [Import]
- Hellbent
Jazz Music
Just Friends [Limited Edition] [Original recording remastered] [Import]
The Journey/Classical Gas [Import]
It's Already Written [Enhanced]
Grandes Pianistas Brasileiros V.7 [Import]
It's a Heartache: The Best of Bonnie Tyler [Import]