Credits:

Charles Lloyd ,The Marvels

Description:

The first new album in three years from heavyweight Charles Lloyd's band, Charles Lloyd & The Marvels! This is Lloyd's sixth album since returning to Blue Note in 2015, and is an all-instrumental album featuring The Marvels members Bill Frisell (g), Greg Reyes (g), Ruben Rogers (b) and Eric Harland (ds)! This is the third album under the Marvels' name, following "I Long To See You" (2016) and "Vanished Gardens," which featured Lucinda Williams on half of the album. The album is a thrilling and uplifting musical hybrid that moves back and forth between genres such as jazz, blues, Americana, country, and rock. In addition to Ornette Coleman, the album features covers of Thelonious Monk, Leonard Cohen, Gabor Sabo, and Bora de Nieve, as well as new songs by Lloyd. Of the album, Lloyd said, "The sounds and voices coming from my instrument now are things I didn't have when I was younger.I believe that these ensembles are trying to express something new, and are showing us some higher goal. In this world surrounded by various problems, there are many people who are hurting without a voice. I want to bring music to those people. To be intoxicated by something while being non-toxic and harmless to the earth is a wonderful thing that deserves to be in song and in sound." He commented. This is Lloyd's masterpiece, a career that will go down in jazz history, but one in which he is always setting new goals.

Tracklisting:

1.Peace
2.Ramblin'
3.Anthem
4.Dismal Swamp
5.Tone Poem
6.Monk's Mood
7.Ay Amor
8.Lady Gabor
9.Prayer