Charles LLoyd Quartet

• Main Stage
  Friday 10•July•2026
  20:15•
  TicketsSold out

  

Lloyd is 87 years old, has performed as a sideman with masters such as Cannonball Adderley and Chico Hamilton since the late 1950s, and has released more than fifty albums as a bandleader since the mid-1960s, for such leading labels as ECM and Blue Note, in a wide range of line-ups featuring the likes of Keith Jarrett, Brad Mehldau, and Gábor Szabó. Charles Lloyd is pure royalty of the tenor saxophone. With his poetic, spiritual, and deeply improvisational approach—blending jazz with elements of rock, folk, classical chamber music, and world music—he has carved out a singular place in the jazz canon as a living legend.

After 60 years, he still sounds vibrant, inquiring, and urgent. His current quartet, featuring Gerarld Clayton, Harish Raghavan and Kweku Sumbry, is not a backing band of sidemen but a fully realized ensemble, in which each musician actively shapes Lloyd’s lyricism, musical narrative, and dynamic tension. Live, their performance unfolds as a four-way dialogue: contemplative yet open, restrained yet charged with energy. Royalty!

Line-up

    Charles Lloyd (tenor saxophone)

    Gerald Clayton (piano)

    Harish Raghavan (bassist)

    Kweku Sumbry (percussion/drums)

For fans of: Pharoah Sanders, Abdullah Ibrahim, Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane