Charles Lloyd - Manhattan Stories (2 CD, 2014/FLAC-HD)

Manhattan Stories is a trip back in time, a journey to a long gone and long-missed era. It's a window into the great Charles Lloyd's art at a period of transition. The shows presented on this beautifully packaged two-disc set—one recorded at the infamous Slugs' Saloon in the summer of 1965, the other recorded at Judson Hall in September of the same year—took place shortly after Lloyd left the employ of Julian "Cannonball" Adderley and before he became a cross-over sensation and hero to hippies, moving a million units of Forest Flower: Charles Lloyd At Monterey (Atlantic, 1966).

• Charles Lloyd, tenor saxophone, flute
• Gábor Szabó, guitar
• Ron Carter, bass
• Pete La Roca, drums

CD 1 (Live at Judson Hall, NYC, September 3, 1965)

01. Sweet Georgia Bright (17:49)

02. How Can I Tell You (11:56)

03. Lady Gabor (13:50)

CD 2 (Live at Slugs' Saloon, NYC, 1965)

01. Slugs' Blues (12:57)

02. Lady Gabor (13:50)

03. Dream Weaver (15:30)

Charles Lloyd discography [1964-2018]

  

Charles Lloyd (born March 15, 1938) is an American jazz musician. Though he primarily plays tenor saxophone and flute, he has also occasionally recorded on alto saxophone and more exotic reed instruments which include the Hungarian tárogató. His best known composition is "Forest Flower."

Saxophonist Charles Lloyd is a forward-thinking musician's musician whose supreme improvisational talents and interest in cross-pollinating jazz with rock as well as non-Western styles of music during the '60s and '70s established him as one of the key figures in the development of fusion and world music. Lloyd grew up surrounded by the vibrant blues and jazz scenes of his native city. Given a saxophone at age nine, Lloyd eventually studied with Memphis legend pianist Phineas Newborn as well as saxophonist Irvin Reason. By his teens, Lloyd was not only best friends with schoolmate trumpeter Booker Little, but was also gigging locally with such artists as saxophonist George Coleman and future blues icons including Bobby "Blue" Bland, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, and others.