Charles Lloyd "Forest Flower 60th Anniversary Tour" Featuring Gerald Clayton, Larry Grenadier & Kweku Sumbry

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Dimitriou's Jazz Alley welcomes internationally acclaimed NEA Jazz Master Charles Lloyd. Band members joining are: Gerald Clayton (piano), Larry Grenadier (bass) & Kweku Sumbry (drums). Showtimes Thursday - Sunday at 7:30pm with a second set Saturday at 9:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm Thursday and 5:30pm Friday - Sunday. <p></p> This show is supported by KNKX Dimitriou's Jazz Alley welcomes internationally acclaimed NEA Jazz Master Charles Lloyd. Band members joining are: Gerald Clayton (piano), Larry Grenadier (bass) & Kweku Sumbry (drums). Showtimes Thursday - Sunday at 7:30pm with a second set Saturday at 9:30pm. Doors open at 6:00pm Thursday and 5:30pm Friday - Sunday. This show is supported by KNKX artist info NEA Jazz Master and recipient of France’s Ordre de Chevalier des Arts et Lettres, Charles Lloyd stands as one of the last living architects of modern jazz. Nearly 60 years after Forest Flower transformed the landscape of jazz and introduced the music to a new generation of listeners, Lloyd continues to perform and record with astonishing creativity, emotional depth, and spiritual intensity. His forthcoming Blue Note release, Figure In Blue , pairs Lloyd with longtime collaborator Jason Moran and guitarist Marvin Sewell for a sweeping new double album that moves effortlessly through original compositions, Delta blues, meditative ballads, and tributes to Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, and Zakir Hussain. The recording is the latest chapter in a remarkable late-career renaissance that has produced some of the most acclaimed work of his legendary career. Across more than six decades, Lloyd has collaborated with artists including Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette, Bill Frisell, Lucinda Williams, Willie Nelson, Norah Jones, Zakir Hussain, and Eric Harland — continually redefining the possibilities of jazz through fearless improvisation and a deeply human musical voice. "Mr. Lloyd has come up with a strange and beautiful distillation of the American experience, part abandoned and wild, part immensely controlled and sophisticated." The New York Times "Lloyd is one of the greats, rather like Joan Miró in modern art, he has no peer save himself. Music of total transport and delight." Jazzwise Artist History Born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1938 and raised in the city’s rich blues, gospel, and jazz tradition Performed early with B.B. King, Howlin’ Wolf,Johnny Ace, and Bobby "Blue" Bland Worked with Chico Hamilton and Cannonball Adderley before emerging as a major bandleader Formed his groundbreaking 1965 quartet with Keith Jarrett, Cecil McBee, and Jack DeJohnette Forest Flower: Live at Montereybecame one of the first jazz albums to sell over one million copies The quartet became the first jazz group to perform at San Francisco’s famed Fillmore Auditorium alongside major rock acts of the 1960s Returned to prominence in the 1980s and launched an acclaimed recording era with ECM and later Blue Note Records Continues to tour and record as one of the most influential and celebrated figures in modern jazz