Charles Lloyd and Jason Moran Duo A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

Charles Lloyd’s associations with Hungary are numerous and ever expanding. Once the Memphis-born saxophonist had received ‘food for thought’ from benchmark figures on the avant-garde jazz scene in Los Angeles (including Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy and Bobby Hutcherson) in addition to blues inspirations, he became artistic leader of the Chico Hamilton band, and it was his decision to invite into the group guitarist Gábor Szabó, perhaps one of today’s most accomplished Hungarian jazz musicians. Lloyd’s composition Forest Flower became famous with him. During the 1960s Charles Lloyd was one of the first jazz musicians to use the tárogató wind instrument in his music, and it continues to be heard in his recordings and concerts to this day. During a Müpa concert in 2012, Mihály Dresch, Mihály Borbély and Miklós Lukács appeared as surprise guests alongside Lloyd. Lukács, on cimbalom, became a founding member of the Charles Lloyd touring orchestra, and they played the Wild Man Dance Suite to global acclaim. Jason Moran has been a partner of the legendary saxophonist since the hit quartet recording Rabo De Nube (2008), and in 2013 the two of them cut a duo album (Hagar’s Song). The astonishingly multifaceted, inventive pianist, who was a student of Jaki Byard, has worked together with Cassandra Wilson, Joe Lovano, Lee Konitz, Christian McBride, Wayne Shorter and Marian McPartland.