Unsettled by the state of the world in 2020, spiritual jazz giant Charles Lloyd began conceiving of a musical offering in the form of a new studio recording featuring a new band, a quartet of unrepressed sensibility that would be a first-time convening of four distinctive voices with the legendary saxophonist joined by pianist Jason Moran and a stellar rhythm group.

In Spring 2023, around Lloyd’s 85th birthday concert in his hometown of Santa Barbara, California, the project at long last flowered with the creation of an expansive double album titled The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow, released on his 86th birthday, a majestic body of work that presents a collection of Lloyd originals new, old, and reimagined.

Lloyd is one of the most significant musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries, a highest peak of the mountain range labelled “jazz,” that is in the end, human music. After having made his way through the Memphis, Los Angeles, New York City, an...

Unsettled by the state of the world in 2020, spiritual jazz giant Charles Lloyd began conceiving of a musical offering in the form of a new studio recording featuring a new band, a quartet of unrepressed sensibility that would be a first-time convening of four distinctive voices with the legendary saxophonist joined by pianist Jason Moran and a stellar rhythm group.

In Spring 2023, around Lloyd’s 85th birthday concert in his hometown of Santa Barbara, California, the project at long last flowered with the creation of an expansive double album titled The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow, released on his 86th birthday, a majestic body of work that presents a collection of Lloyd originals new, old, and reimagined.

Lloyd is one of the most significant musicians of the 20th and 21st centuries, a highest peak of the mountain range labelled “jazz,” that is in the end, human music. After having made his way through the Memphis, Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco music scenes—becoming an historical figure in each—Lloyd released one of the most unique and never replicated albums in music history, the 1966-recording of Forest Flower that introduced Keith Jarrett, Cecil McBee and Jack DeJohnette, and over the course of a vast musical lifetime has consistently offered the world a gift of music that can rival any art of any era.

(The Guardian) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Sax legend Charles Lloyd shows no sign of slowing down”

(All About Jazz) ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow is a kick in the ass call to arms of the life and beauty still to be experienced when minds and hearts are set free to imagine other states of being.“...

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