Lift Every Voice

Lift Every Voice Artist: Charles Lloyd
Label: Ecm Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2


UPC: 044001878329
EAN: 0044001878329
ASIN: B00006L3GC


Release Date: 2002-10-15

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Listmania:

  1. Best Recent Straightahead Jazz
  2. Billy Hart on drums
  3. ECM at it's best
  4. My favorite recordings of 2002 (in no particular order)
  5. Luke's fave raves 2002

Tracks:

  1. Hymn To The Mother
  2. You Are So Beautiful
  3. Amazing Grace
  4. East Virginia, West Memphis
  5. What's Going On
  6. Angel Oak
  7. Te Amare
  8. I'm Afraid
  9. Hafez, Shattered Heart

Tracks:

  1. Rabo De Nube
  2. Blood Count
  3. Go Moses
  4. Beyond Darkness
  5. Nocturne
  6. Wayfaring Stranger
  7. Deep River
  8. Lift Every Voice And Sing
  9. Prayer, The Crossing

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  1. Voice in the Night
  2. The Water Is Wide
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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Spiritual Elevation.......2003-12-31

This is a very special album indeed. Its a long wait as ECM records are somewhat a rarity at this part of the world. Charles Lloyd's Lift every voice isn't an average recording, in the league of his previous works ever sincere and ever soul moving. I couldn't agree that he is Coltrane in the 2nd being but Lloyd at 1st in his own right. The rendition of Amazing Grace to Marvin Gaye's Whats Going on has a sense of individuality yet recalls the familiarity of the numbers. I find this album edging towards experimentation with the addition of Marc Johnson and without Brad Mehldau. What I would love to hear is Tenor Sax: Charles Lloyd, Piano: Ahmad Jamal, Guitar: Pat Matheny, DB bass: Charlie Haden, Drums: Billy Higgins anyway just a wild thought...

Lift every voice is a keeper on my collection and could be well renamed as Lift every soul. I am glad to have been elevated again. Mr Lloyd thank you for the music.

5 out of 5 stars Uplifting Masterpiece.......2003-11-18

Charles Lloyd and his superb group will take you on a journey with this 2cd set.The essence of each song is found as each musician weaves in and out effortlessly--allowing the listener to hear the song as a whole or a statement.Lloyd selections are spirituals,pop hits, originals, and 2 Silvio Rodriquez songs.One of which is Te Amare which has a beautiful melody churned forward by the group as a whole-as close to an ecstatic state as music can take you.Of special interest on this album is John Abercrombie's guitar playing--it is masterful--everything he does builds,supports, and betters his leader. Lloyd is definitely on to something with this music recorded after Sept 11--it is music of peace--but it is something even more.It is a musician making music from heart and soul--it really just seems to come poring out--There is no Ego in this music--And that is what music should be.

5 out of 5 stars The Coltrane Legacy.......2003-10-08

Charles Lloyd has consistently worked within the parameters developed by John Coltrane in formulating a spiritually-oriented, introspective jazz form that incorporates ideas from various ethnic musics. However, he should not be seen as an imitator but a brilliant and soulful interpretor in the Coltrane tradition -- no less than any great player in any traditional music form. Lloyd has a lot of heart and a wide range of musical ideas to draw upon, and that really comes through in this superb recording.

5 out of 5 stars Deep Jazz.......2003-10-01

What a run of absolutely sublime albums: "Voice in the Night," "The Water is Wide," "Hyperion with Higgins," and now, "Lift Every Voice." Lloyd is the deepest tenor player since Coltrane. Hell, he's among most profound living instrumentalists in any genre. Anouar Brahem's oud; Miles's trumpet; Trane's tenor; Maxim Vengerov's violin; Ravi Shankar's sitar; Rostropovich's cello; Toumani Diabate's kora. Lloyd's tenor is on this list. (Sorry, I realize that Miles and Trane aren't living--but I couldn't not include them). What Lloyd does with this mix of spirituals, pop tunes and originals is simultaneously to lift them up and to dig deeply into them (in much the same way Billie did with much more banal material). Its been said of Beethoven's late String Quartets that they're "beyond music." Surely, Lloyd's music takes us beyond our everyday realm to a place where all is joyous and serene.

5 out of 5 stars Lift every listener.......2003-03-18

Nothing more can be added that hasn't already been said about this transcendant work. This is more of a plug to see Charles live if you get a chance. I saw him last night for his birthday at L.A.'s Jazz Bakery and it lifted me way up there. It was more of a group meditation than a concert. Similarly this is more of a prayer circle than a CD. We could all use more of those right now.

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