Artist
Charles Lloyd
Charles Lloyd is a jazz artist from Memphis, USA. 52 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Jazz · Memphis, USA · Best jazz albums
- 52
- Releases
- 1965–2025
- Active years
Artist
Charles Lloyd is a jazz artist from Memphis, USA. 52 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Jazz · Memphis, USA · Best jazz albums
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The Water Is Wide
2000
Sangam
2006
Voice in the Night
1999
Lift Every Voice
2002
Of Course, Of Course
1965
Hagar's Song
2013
Hyperion With Higgins
2000
Which Way Is East
2004
Canto
1997
All My Relations
1995
Dream Weaver
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Figure In Blue
2025
fyra (Live Stockholm '66)
2025
The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow
2024
Automne (Live Antibes '66)
2023
Trios: Sacred Thread
2022
Trios: Chapel (Live)
2022
Trio Of Trios
2022
Trios: Ocean (Live)
2022
8: Kindred Spirits (Live From The Lobero)
2020
Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series, Vol. 46 (Live At Montreux Jazz Festival 1967)
2020
Live 1966
2019
Vanished Gardens
2018
Waves
2016
Wild Man Dance (Live At Jazztopad Festival, Wroclaw, Poland)
2015
The Best Of Charles Lloyd
2014
Manhattan Stories (Live)
2014
Quartets
2013
Discovery!
2012
Nirvana
2012
Athens Concert
2011
Discovery! & Nirvana
2010
Dreamweaver - The Charles Lloyd Anthology: The Atlantic Years 1966-1969
2008
Rabo De Nube
2008
Jumping the Creek
2005
Forest Flower: Charles Lloyd At Monterey (Live)
2005
Acoustic Masters 1
1994
The Call
1993
A Night in Copenhagen
1993
Notes From Big Sur
1992
Fish Out Of Water
1990
Pathless Path
1979
Hymn To The Mother, for Zakir
Single · 2025
Figure In Blue, memories of Duke
Single · 2025
Hina Hanta, the way of peace
Single · 2025
Monk's Dance
Single · 2024
Defiant, Tender Warrior
Single · 2024
Booker's Garden
Single · 2024
Jaramillo Blues (For Virginia Jaramillo and Danny Johnson) (Live)
EP · 2022
Desolation Sound
Single · 2022
Witherspoon & Lloyd
EP · 2022
Blood Count (Live)
Single · 2022
Charles Lloyd (born March 15, 1938 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an American jazz musician. Though he primarily plays tenor saxophone and flute, he has occasionally recorded on other reed instruments, including alto saxophone and the Hungarian tárogató. Lloyd's working band since 2007 features pianist Jason Moran, bassist Reuben Rogers, and drummer Eric Harland. Biography Lloyd grew up in Memphis, and was exposed to its rich river culture and musical heritage, including blues, gospel and jazz. Lloyd's ancestry of African, Cherokee, Mongolian, and Irish reflects a similar rich culture. He was given his first saxophone at the age of 9, and was riveted to 1940s radio broadcasts by Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington. His early teachers included pianist Phineas Newborn, Jr. and saxophonist Irvin Reason. His closest childhood friend was the great trumpeter Booker Little. As a teenager Lloyd played jazz with saxophonist George Coleman, Booker Little, Harold Mabern, and Frank Strozier, and was a sideman for blues greats Johnny Ace, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Howlin' Wolf and B.B. King. Classical music exerted a strong pull on the young Lloyd. In 1956 he…