Charles Lloyd - Voice In The Night

Charles Lloyd's sixth ECM album is both a departure and a homecoming for the Memphis-born and California-based tenorist, introducing new music and revisiting archive favourites (including the epic Forest Flower), and featuring an all-star line-up. With his Scandinavian band currently on hold, this is Lloyd's first all-American album in a long while - Dave Holland qualifies as an honorary American by now - with all the differences of cultural emphasis that this implies. ECM veteran John Abercrombie and legendary drummer Billy Higgins are in great form throughout as they lock in with Lloyd to tackle material ranging from Billy Strayhorn's A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing to the Elvis Costello/Burt Bacharach-penned God Give Me Strength or dig deep into the roots music of the Island Blues Suite.

Recorded 1998

Personnel: Charles Lloyd (tenor saxophone), John Abercrombie (guitar), Dave Holland (double bass), Billy Higgins (drums)