Charles Lloyd - Trios: Sacred Thread LP

Blue Note, 2022 Charles Lloyd has long been a free spirit, master musician, and visionary. For more than 6 decades the legendary saxophonist and composer has loomed large over the music world, and at 84 years old he remains at the height of his powers and as prolific as ever. As a sound seeker, Lloyd’s restless creativity has perhaps found no greater manifestation than on his latest masterwork Trio of Trios, an expansive project that encompasses three albums, each a deft change of musical context that presents him in a different trio setting. The third album in the series Trios: Sacred Thread features guitarist Julian Lage and percussionist Zakir Hussain, and was recorded in September 2020 at The Paul Mahder Gallery in Healdsburg, California as a live stream concert for a virtual audience. Past experiences often illuminate the present in Lloyd’s music, for example, the provenance of The Sacred Thread — and the encounters that helped inform it — originated in the late fifties: “When I