Tone Poem WARPLP256 Lloyd remains at the peak

Lloyd remains at the peak of his powers in the company of a newly-assembled quartet of four distinctive voices with the NEA Jazz Master joined by pianist Jason Moran

who had followed a half-year hiatus in 1965 by finding steady work for the Shorter-Hancock-Carter-Williams laboratory

something so sorely needed and begged for by the record-buying public

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Coupled with the succinct Revolutionaries band and Isaacs quality songwriting

Tone Poem WARPLP256 Lloyd remains at the peakTone Poem is the third LP by Charles Lloyd & The Marvels. Tone Poem sees saxophonist Charles Lloydbacked by a quartet of guitarist Bill Frisell, Greg Leisz on pedal steel, bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Eric Harland. They work their way through nine blues and country flecked jazz instrumentals. Its a mix of original compositions and versions of tunes by Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk, Leonard Cohen, Gabor Szabo, and Bola de Nieve.