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Charles lloyd pathless path blog9/26/2023 “I used to play at this club in Memphis, where a country band was always finishing up as we came in. ![]() ![]() For his latest Blue Note release Tone Poem, Lloyd presents The Marvels without guest vocalists for the first time on a nourishing nine-course meal of spiritual food. Lloyd debuted The Marvels on the 2016 album I Long To See You with special guests Norah Jones and Willie Nelson, and reconvened the band for 2018’s Vanished Gardens which featured Lucinda Williams on half the album. Hence the moniker of his latest collective The Marvels-featuring Bill Frisell on guitar, Greg Leisz on pedal steel guitar, Reuben Rogers on bass, and Eric Harland on drums-of whom Lloyd is at once leader and faithful servant, a vessel for languages without script. Many have their hand out for something, but I try to let my heart be filled so I want for nothing. When you’re at the feet of the Universe, she will always bless and take care of us. You must have your elixir, and the elixir is in sound and tone. “That wouldn’t be right for the tradition I serve. ![]() The tenor saxophone with which he is most commonly associated is a scepter that sounds, in his words, “a clarion call to truth and love.” A tender warrior committed to restoration, he sees no lines of demarcation in his music: To regard a line of improvisation in the key of Charles Lloyd is to walk a spiral from the peaceful depths of one’s soul to the chaotic terrains beyond it.
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