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- Summary: The album of jazz originals and standards from saxophonist Charles Lloyd and pianist Jason Moran includes a five-part suite dedicated to Lloyd's great-great grandmother.
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- Record Label: ECM
- Genre(s): Jazz, Post-Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz, Saxophone Jazz
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Apr 2, 2013The results are as distinctive as they are rewarding.
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Mar 15, 2013Hagar's Song finds Lloyd and Moran at their most naturally curious and deeply attentive best, offering a conversation so intimate the listener may occasionally feel she is eavesdropping.
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Mar 15, 2013Give it time and the intensity of the music--the Hagar of the title is Lloyd's great-great grandmother, who was sold into slavery--comes through.
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Mar 15, 2013Hagar’s Song is low on flash. And it rests with love against your ear.
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Mar 15, 2013For the most part, the album is a testament to the sonic eloquence Lloyd discovered on his comeback via ECM at the end of the 80s.