Hagar's Song - Jason Moran
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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.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. 88
    The results are as distinctive as they are rewarding.
  2. Mar 15, 2013
    80
    Hagar'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.
  3. Give 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.
  4. Mar 15, 2013
    60
    For 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.

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