CHARLES LLOYD - Voice in the Night (1999) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

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 Lovesome 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.
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Tracklist :
1     Voice in the Night 6'30
Charles Lloyd    
2     God Give Me Strength 4'45
Burt Bacharach / Elvis Costello    
3     Dorotea's Studio 7'47
Charles Lloyd    
4     Requiem 5'57
Charles Lloyd    
5     Pocket Full of Blues 11'41
Charles Lloyd    
6     Homage 9'27
Charles Lloyd    
7     Forest Flower: Sunrise/Sunset 15'22
Charles Lloyd
8     A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing 6'49
Billy Strayhorn
Credits :
Cover, Photography By [Photos] – Dorothy Darr
Double Bass – Dave Holland
Drums, Percussion – Billy Higgins
Guitar – John Abercrombie
Producer – Manfred Eicher
Tenor Saxophone – Charles Lloyd