Charles Lloyd covers GGMS

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 8:07 am

This sounds interesting -

http://my.opera.com/STEFANfromPARIS/blo ... -night1999

CHARLES LLOYD - VOICE IN THE NIGHT (1999)

Thursday, 9. November 2006, 07:51:01

Charles Lloyd teams with a different band here, replacing Bobo Stenson's piano with John Abercrombie's guitar, bassist Anders Jormin with Dave Holland, and drummer Billy Hart with Billy Higgins. The title references the feeling on the album in that Lloyd was going for more of a jazz sound, something more basic and lyrical as opposed to exotic and unusual. Of the eight tunes here, six are Lloyd originals, one is a cover of the Elvis Costello/Burt Bacharach hit God Give Me Strength, and one is the Billy Strayhorn classic, A Flower Is a Lonesome Thing, which follows a gorgeous reprise of Lloyd's own Forest Flower from the '60s. The Costello/Bacharach tune is the most telling for this band in that they take a standard pop melody and turn it into a modal exploration of harmony and chromatic invention. As Lloyd plays variations on the melody, the band turns one harmonic sequence into a pillar from Coltrane's version of My Favorite Things and back. The Forest Flower suite is awesome. The interplay between Lloyd and Abercrombie is fully realized as they trade flatted sevenths and then Abercrombie moves into augmented ninths and diminished sixths before both Lloyd and he solo against the harmonic body of the tune while retaining its melodic sensibility. It's just breathtaking.

musicians: John Abercrombie Guitar, Guitar (Baritone) / Billy Higgins Percussion, Drums / Dave Holland Double Bass / Charles Lloyd Sax (Tenor)
01 - Voice in the Night (6:30)
02 - God Give Me Strength (4:45)
03 - Dorotea's Studio (7:47)
04 - Requiem (5:57)
05 - Pocket Full of Blues (11:41)
06 - Homage (9:26)
07 - Forest Flower: Sunrise/Sunset (15:22)
08 - A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing (6:49)

http://www.amazon.com/Voice-Night-Charl ... 73-4475116

Neil. · Post by **Neil.** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:15 am

Just had a listen on the Amazon clip. God, I feel so ignorant, but these jazz workout things do nothing for me!

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:15 pm

I picked up a 2nd hand copy last friday in City Discs and I love it. Great album, ECM really is a great label, indeed it strikes me as the perfect label for Elvis. A 16 minute live version, by Lloyd, is now seeding heavily on dime at the moment.

http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-deta ... ?id=131383

martinfoyle · Post by **martinfoyle** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 10:38 am

Not surprisingly the live version is way better than the studio version. Here's a mp3

http://www.4shared.com/file/9344519/240 ... _2006.html