CHARLES LLOYD NEW QUARTET

Critics agree that Charles Lloyd has never sounded better. The depth of expression in his music reflects his lifelong experience and Lloyd has such a legendary status in the music world that he could well rest on his laurels: he has shaped jazz music like no other since the 1960s, made records on the world's most renowned jazz labels and received countless awards. But the 86-year-old still inspires fans all over the world today.

One of the greats is coming to Berlin with his illustrious quartet!

Charles Lloyd, born in Memphis, Tennessee, began playing the saxophone at the age of 9 after hearing Charlie Parker, Lester Young and Duke Ellington on the radio. He quickly played in renowned bands, working with artists such as Billy Higgins, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy and many other legends. In the 1960s he became a member of Cannonball Adderley's sextet and began his own career as a leader; sidemen on his CBS Records records included Tony Williams, Ron Carter and Roy Haynes.

In 1965 he founded his own quartet, a group that was to make history. The band of young talents, Keith Jarrett, Jack DeJohnette and Cecil McBee, reached an unusually wide audience for jazz bands, sold millions of records and played at major festivals alongside the biggest rock bands of the time.

The band spanned a musical arc between improvisations bordering on free jazz and driving rock rhythms and influenced the development of jazz rock music even before Miles Davis and other contemporaries. After a ten-year break from the music business, during which he worked as a meditation trainer, Lloyd reappeared on the scene in the 1980s and has since worked with the most important contemporary musicians, including Brad Mehldau, John Abercrombie and the members of his current quartet, which is considered one of the most exciting formations of the present day; his recordings for ECM and Blue Note are groundbreaking.

Charles Lloyd stands like no other for the unifying and spiritual energy of music and each of his concerts is a unique, almost transcendental journey for musicians and audience alike.

Jason Moran is an American pianist. He studied in Texas and has been an integral part of the international jazz scene since the mid-1990s. Equally stylistically influenced by the jazz avant-garde of the 1960s such as Sam Rivers, Don Pullen, Andrew Hill, as well as Ellington and Monk, Moran developed a deeply precise, concentrated, unreserved and therefore highly contemporary style in combination with his classical piano training, which has earned him numerous prizes such as several awards in the Down Beat Magazine rankings, the Echo Jazz and many more. He plays and has played with musicians such as Greg Osby, Wayne Shorter, Bad Plus, Robert Glasper, Dave Holland, Lee Konitz, Joe Lovano, to name but a few.

Larry Grenadier is one of the most admired and accomplished bassists working in jazz today. The New York Times praised him as a "deeply intuitive" musician and Bass Player magazine as an instrumentalist with a "fluid sense of melody." Grenadier has created an extensive body of work in collaboration with many of the genre's most inventive and influential musicians - from the early years of his career playing with saxophone icons Joe Henderson and Stan Getz to decades of performing alongside pianist Brad Mehldau, from extensive experience working with musicians such as Paul Motian and Pat Metheny to co-leading the collaborative trio Fly (with Mark Turner and Jeff Ballard) and the quartet Hudson (with John Scofield, John Medeski and Jack DeJohnette). In 2019, ECM Records released The Gleaners, a solo bass recording by Grenadier, to rave reviews.

Eric Harland is without doubt already one of the most important drummers in jazz history. Wynton Marsalis discovered him at a workshop and offered him a scholarship to the Manhattan School of Music. Since he has been in New York, he has developed into one of the best drummers, which is confirmed not only by Down Beat's readers' and critics' surveys (which already put him on a par with Max Roach, Roy Haynes or Elvin Jones), but also by numerous prizes and the list of musicians with whom he has recorded: McCoy Tyner, Charles Lloyd, Dave Holland, Kenny Garrett, John Swana, Gilad Hekselman, Aaron Parks, Terrence Blanchard Ravi Coltrane, Jason Moran and countless more. The New York Times noted:"He sets the rhythm for the future of jazz."

1 . Show: 18:30 h (Entry18:00 h)

2. Show: 21:00 h(Entry 20:30 h)

Online ticket shop: 45€

Box Office: 49€