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Rabo de Nube | 
| Artist: Charles Lloyd
Label: ECM
Category: Music
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 14147
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 001066302
UPC: 602517548114
EAN: 0602517548114
ASIN: B0012NON7K
Release Date: March 24, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Prometheus | | • | Migration of Spirit | | • | Booker's Garden | | • | Ramanujan | | • | La Colline de Monk | | • | Sweet Georgia Bright | | • | Rabo de Nube |
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Or in seventh heaven? April 24, 2008
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
I wholeheartedly endorse the comments of degrant: this is an absolutely fantastic disc and Charles Lloyd's best of recent times. Part of that has to do with the fact that 'Rabo de Nube' is a live recording. There is just something really special about listening to four musicians hitting sparks off one another in a live setting when this works. This disc captures the spontaneity and 'in-the-moment' quality beautifully - what a great night this must have been in Basle! Another reason why this is so good is in the electric mix of the personalities themselves. What gives the disc such impetus to my mind is above all the contrast and interplay between Lloyds ethereal, sometimes meandering, sometimes floating, but always expressive playing on saxophone and flute and Jason Moran's propulsive piano playing. In fact, it is Moran who is the real revelation on this recording. If his own records on Blue Note sometimes feel too clever for their own good, he is simply on fire here, from the edgy funk of 'Booker's Garden', through the Monk-meets-Free-Jazz intro and solo on 'La Colline de Monk' to the hard bop edge of 'Georgia Bright'. Favourite tracks? 'Promotheus', 'Migration of Spirit', the funky 'Booker's Garden' (Lloyd is great on the flute here), 'La Colline de Monk' and the lush 'Rabo de Nube'. The sound is good too: the next best thing to having Charles Lloyd in your living room. In all, magic.
On Cloud Nine April 18, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Cutting to the chase this is the best, most engaging, swinging and jazz-like recording by Charles Lloyd in at least a decade. In the current millennium Lloyd has released an eclectic and substantial body of work, from the standards-heavy "The Water is Wide", to the 9/11 inspired collection of spirituals, traditionals and originals that is "Lift Every Voice", to the uneven but massive series of improvisations with the late, great Billy Higgins "Which Way is East" and, most recently the percussion-heavy combination of saxophone, drums and tabla of "Sangam".
All these releases are recommended and, throughout their course, Lloyd displays variously a lyricism, command of atmosphere and prescient sense of rhythm and much of this work, no matter its form, is underpinned by an orientalism and/or mysticism.
For at least the first two thirds of "Rabo da Nube" (meaning "Tail of a Cloud") Lloyd's new quartet unites all those attributes into a near perfect whole. All the players are in fine form and Jason Moran's piano provides the melodic counterpoint to Lloyd and overall harmonic presence sometimes noticeably lacking from "Sangam". While the opener "Prometheus", funky "Booker's Garden" and eastern sounding "Ramunujan" are all fantastic the second track "Migration of Spirit", which certainly has the spirit of A Love Supreme-era Coltrane, is utterly magnificent and Lloyd's finest achievement since his return to music in the 1990s.
Thereafter, although it is all relative, the final trio of songs (comprising a third of the album's 75 minutes) does not quite live up to the first four. "Sweet Georgia Bright" is an old favourite but is probably the weakest track here. "La colline de Monk" is an entertaining if brief tribute to the great man. However, the concluding title track is undeniably beautiful although I miss John Abercrombie's unmistakeable guitar from the version in "Lift Every Voice".
In short, more consistent that some of Lloyd's recent releases, and dazzling at best, this is a near essential addition to a great musician's oeuvre.
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