Our guest is modern saxophonist Charles Lloyd, who also built a sound in Los Angeles, riding a wave of free jazz and beyond. He played alongside everyone from Ornette Coleman to the Jefferson Airplane ...

One can find in Charles Lloyd the intersection of music and spirituality, and Friday night at the Lobero Theater, he issued a heartfelt update from the frontier. Like the century-old Lobero, National ...

In successive sets by their classic quartet lineups, Lloyd and Marsalis demonstrated striking contrasts in tone and feeling. The bond between the two even extended to the spatial. Frequently, during ...

On Friday, March 6, 2026, Zakir Hussain, the renowned tabla virtuoso and percussionist who helped widen global interest in classical Indian music, will be ...

The mystery surrounding jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd for many years could be summed up in a simple question: Where did he go? In the early 1970s, at the top of his game, he dropped off the musical ...

Seasoned saxophonist Charles Lloyd, now 87 and alighting major stages, festivals and accolade zones around the world, is considered one of the last of the old school jazz legends standing—and going ...

He’s a jazz legend who has been making music for more than seven decades. Charles Lloyd has played with virtually every jazz great since the 1960s. Perhaps a better way of putting it is that the great ...

Jazz great Charles Lloyd will release his forthcoming double album, Figure in Blue, on October 10, 2025. A new troupe of instrumentalists joins the celebrated saxophonist, Jason Maron (piano) and ...

And then they were 20. Charles Lloyd, the eminent jazz saxophonist who has called Montecito home for 40 plus years, has also long called the Lobero Theatre his go-to hometown concert venue. The artist ...