Charles Lloyd / Jason Moran: Hagar's Song

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Looking back at Charles Lloyd's sizable discography as a leader, what's becomes immediately clear is that the saxophonist has shared a number of special, long-term musical relationships with pianists: first, m: Keith Jarrett, in the quartet that brought Lloyd considerable fame and commercial success in the 1960s; and then m: Bobo Stenson, when he returned from nearly two decades of relative inactivity as a leader (some of it spent recording and touring with The Beach Boys) and began an association with ECM Records that continues to this day. His first five ECM albums--from 1990's Fish Out of Water through to the particularly strong Canto (1997)--will, in fact, be reissued later this year as part of the label's Old and New Masters Edition series of box sets, documenting in once place Lloyd's particularly fertile collaboration with Stenson and, on four of the five recordings, fellow Swede and longtime Stenson Trio mate, bassist m: Anders Jormin...

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