Near the end of Charles Lloyd’s “Figure in Blue” (Blue Note) comes “Hymn to the Mother, for Zakir.” Its brief, exquisite melody glides in like a slow tide, and eventually releases into eddies of ...
Jazz listeners with long memories will remember that Charles Lloyd was not always as revered as he is today. In the 1960s, his association with the "Summer of Love" and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury ...