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- Record Label: Blue Note
- Release Date: Feb 28, 2020
- Summary: The recording of the jazz saxophonist's 80th birthday concert at Santa Barbara's Lobero Theatre that included Julian Lage, Gerald Clayton, Reuben Rogers, and Eric Harland.
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- Record Label: Blue Note
- Genre(s): Jazz, Jazz Instrument, Post-Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz, Crossover Jazz, Hard Bop, Saxophone Jazz
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Mar 17, 2020This first set that comprises three Lloyd originals and the traditional often performed, exquisite “La Llorona.” It’s a masterpiece of saxophone tone and spiritual playing, punctuated with scintillating solo spots from Lage and Clayton. ... The second set is a clinic in deep R&B and blues.
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Mar 17, 2020Enchanting. ... It’s liquid, fast-moving and rerouting. Into it he mixes the soul-opening honk of Albert Ayler, full of enough breath to evoke a door blowing wide open; the winding intensity of John Coltrane; and the troubled placidity of Lester Young. And somehow, he never seems to need any more volume than Young did to get his point across.
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Mar 17, 2020Arguably, this edition of 8: Kindred Spirits, though only a first set, is one of Lloyd's strongest live offerings to date.
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MojoMar 17, 2020Revisits some of his most famous tunes. [May 2020, p.90]