{"id":4897,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/charles-lloyd-lift-every-voice\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"charles-lloyd-lift-every-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4897","title":{"rendered":"Charles Lloyd  &#8211; Lift Every Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\"><b><font color=\"#0000FF\" face=\"Verdana\" size=\"3\" style=\"font-size:16px\">Lift Every Voice<br \/><\/font><font size=\"4\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Charles Lloyd<br \/><\/font><\/b><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:11px\">(ECM &#8211; 2003) <br \/>     by Paula Edelstein<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/div>\n<p>  <font face=\"verdana\" size=\"2\" style=\"font-size:14px\">  From his mind has come some of the best jazz of all time, including <strong>Forest Flower<\/strong>, the first jazz album to ever sell a million copies, and his most recent two-CD disc titled <strong>Lift Every Voice<\/strong>. With his imagination at work, the saxophonist and flautist is breaking new ground with a stellar ensemble of <strong>Geri Allen <\/strong>on piano, <strong>John Abercrombie <\/strong>on guitar, <strong>Marc Johnson <\/strong>and <strong>Larry Grenadier <\/strong>on double bass and <strong>Billy Hart <\/strong>on drums. With his richly embellished paeans <em>Hymn To The Mother<\/em>, <em>Amazing Grace<\/em>, <em>Go Down Moses<\/em>, <em>Lift Every Voice and Sing<\/em> and <em>Prayer, The Crossing<\/em> Lloyd has created and elevated indelible musical images that speak to the listener in a way similar to witnessing mysteries of epic proportions.  <\/p>\n<p>   These songs are peaceful, often sublime and always unforgettable. The bluesy rendition of <em>East Virginia, West Memphis<\/em> or the serene chops heard on <em>What&#8217;s Going On?<\/em> also deftly tell the tale of a musician&#8217;s moods during one of America&#8217;s most horrendous events. Despite it all, Charles Lloyd maintains a positive outlook on life and still holds hope for peace throughout the world.   <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\" style=\"font-size:14px\">     <br \/>    Reprinted with permission of&#8230;<br \/><\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\" style=\"font-size:14px\">     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundsoftimelessjazz.com\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/sotjlogo.gif\" width=\"540\" height=\"100\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a>     <\/font><\/p>\n<p>            <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/font><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lift Every VoiceCharles Lloyd(ECM &#8211; 2003) by Paula Edelstein From<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}