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A Night of the Beats: Charles Lloyd Quartet, Michael McClure, Kurt Elling, Joshua Redman and more

Written by Ronaldo Oregano

Tuesday, 01 December 2009

Charles Lloyd

The finale of the three-week West Coast, Left Coast festival is A Night of the Beats is an all-star celebration of the music and poetry of The Beat Generation that takes place on Tuesday, December 8, 8:00 p.m. at Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue in Los Angeles. The poetry of The Beat Generation and the bebop of jazz were indelibly linked by their hip non-conformity and spontaneous creativity. Relive those heady days with seminal Beat poems and jazz with a fresh twist. Charles Lloyd Quartet that includes Jason Moran, Reuben Rogers, and Eric Harland; poet performers Exene Cervenka, Michael McClure, and David Meltzer; Alan Broadbent on piano; poet-vocalist Kurt Elling; and special guests Peter Erskine on drums, Christian McBride on bass, and Joshua Redman on saxophones. Tickets rangre from $45 to $115 and are available at Ticketmaster. A Night of the Beats with the Charles Lloyd Quartet, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Kurt Elling, Joshua Redman andmpre 12/8 at Disney Hall

The finale of the three-week West Coast, Left Coast festival is A Night of the Beats is an all-star celebration of the music and poetry of The Beat Generation that takes place on Tuesday, December 8, 8:00 p.m. at Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue in Los Angeles. The poetry of The Beat Generation and the bebop of jazz were indelibly linked by their hip non-conformity and spontaneous creativity. Relive those heady days with seminal Beat poems and jazz with a fresh twist. Charles Lloyd Quartet that includes Jason Moran, Reuben Rogers, and Eric Harland; poet performers Exene Cervenka, Michael McClure, and David Meltzer; Alan Broadbent on piano; poet-vocalist Kurt Elling; and special guests Peter Erskine on drums, Christian McBride on bass, and Joshua Redman on saxophones. Tickets rangre from $45 to $115 and are available at Ticketmaster.

The latest incarnation of the Charles Lloyd Quartet includes the brilliant Jason Moran on piano and Reuben Rogers on bass joining Charles and drummer Eric Harland. Their live album “Rabo de Nube”, was released in 2008.

During the early 1960's Charles Lloyd recorded two albums as a leader with other young musicians including Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams. Following that Lloyd led a quartet with pianist Keith Jarrett, bassist Cecil McBee (afterwards, Ron McClure), and drummer Jack DeJohnette whose music was an groundbreaking fusion of straight-ahead post-bop, free jazz, and soul jazz. They also achieved a significant amount of crossover success with rock fans and became the first jazz group to play in the Fillmore. SInce 1989, Lloyd has toured actively and recorded for the ECM label. These recordings reveal Lloyd's depth and sensitivity as a ballad player - particularly on Voice in the Night, The Water Is Wide (featuring Brad Mehldau, John Abercrombie and Billy Higgins) and Lift Every Voice (featuring Geri Allen).

Kurt Elling © Andea Canter

Memphis-born Lloyd has played with some exceptional pianists in the course of his long career, starting with Phineas Newborn in his home town, with Joe Zawinul in the Cannonball Adderley group, and with Keith Jarrett, whom Lloyd introduced in his pioneering group of the 1960s. Subsequent Lloyd quartet pianists have included Michel Petrucciani, Bobo Stenson, Brad Mehldau, and Geri Allen. Jason Moran is a perfect addition to Lloyd's quartet. As the New York Times once observed, Moran reaches both further back in the jazz tradition and further outside it than most of his contemporaries. His strongly chordal approach and his percussive originality took off from an early interest in Thelonious Monk, but Moran (born 1975) studied with three great teachers – Jaki Byard, Andrew Hill, and Muhal Richard Abrams – who encouraged him to find his own path. He has recorded a number of critically-acclaimed albums as a leader, won a number of prizes including the Jazz Journalists Association’s Pianist of the Year Award, and performed with many great musicians from Wayne Shorter to Lee Konitz.

For more information, visit www.charleslloyd.com.

Considered by many to be he finest male jazz vocalist of his generation, Kurt Elling's latest release is a live CD Dedicated To You, Elling’s creative re-imagining of John Coltrane's collaboration with “romantic balladeer” Johnny Hartman. Kurt Elling graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota in 1989. He then enrolled in The University of Chicago's Divinity School and remained a student there until January 1992. In the last decade, Elling has released seven albums for the Blue Note label. He has also performed and recorded with many musicians, including David Amram, Bob Belden, Joanne Brackeen, Oscar Brown, Jr., Billy Corgan, Orbert Davis, George Freeman, Buddy Guy, Jon Hendricks, Charlie Hunter, Randy Bachman, Bob Mintzer, Rex Richardson, and Bob Sheppard. Elling earn seven GRAMMY nominations or six Blue Note albums, six consecutive years at the top of the Down Beat critics and Jazz Times Readers' polls, three Jazz Journalists' Association wards for Best Male Vocalist and the Prix Billie Holiday from the Academie du Jazz in Paris.

Joshua Redman © Andrea Canter

Joshua Redman was born in Berkeley, California, son of jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman. In 1991, he graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa Society. Redman won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Saxophone Competition, also in 1991, and began focusing on his musical career. Redman continued to develop his style throughout the 1990s, beginning with a sideman appearance on Elvin Jones' "Youngblood" alongside Javon Jackson (recorded at Van Gelder studios in April 1991), and following up with an appearance on his father Dewey's 1992 record Choices. On his second album as a leader, Wish, he was joined by a notable lineup consisting of guitarist Pat Metheny, bassist Charlie Haden, and drummer Billy Higgins; he would later tour this album as The Joshua Redman Quartet, featuring Christian McBride in place of Charlie Haden. He continued to work with various quartets, including one with pianist Brad Mehldau until forming a new trio, Elastic, with keyboardist Sam Yahel and drummer Brian Blade. The trio debuted under the moniker Yaya3, producing one album under this name. The same group of musicians made up the core on Redman's Elastic album, before becoming known as the Joshua Redman Elastic Band.

In addition to his efforts with Elastic, Redman was the artistic director of San Francisco's SFJAZZ Collective from 2004-2007. Redman has also appeared on recordings and in live performances by Umphrey's McGee. On his album, Back East, Redman paid tribute to Sonny Rollins' 1957 album Way Out West, teaming up with musicians including Brian Blade, Christian McBride, Al Jackson, Joe Lovano, and his late father.

Joshua Redman's bio was adapted from wikipedia.org.

West Coast, Left Coast.

This three-week series of concerts and special events – curated by Creative Chair John Adams – focuses on California as a land of possibility, a place where creative renegades have enjoyed a wide open and welcoming environment. Join the exploration and immerse yourself in music from many sources, as well as in symposia and other special events, all focusing on the West Coast ethos. For more information visit: http://www.laphil.com/tickets/festival-wclc.cfm.

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