Charles Lloyd & Maria Farantouri live at JazzFest Berlin 2011

Charles Lloyd saxophone, flute, tarogato
Maria Farantouri vocals
Jason Moran piano
Reuben Rogers bass
Eric Harland drums
Socratis Sinopoulos lyra

recorded live at Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Main Stage, November 6, 2011

1. Blow Mind
2. Dream Weaver
3. Beyond Darknessn
4. Se pater kosmon
5. Medley: Vielfaro mou/Thalassaki Mou/Margaritenia/
Alismono/Tou Hel'to Kastron/Requiem/Yanni Mou
6. Prayer

The power, depth and beauty of music can transcend language and cultural differences. Charles Lloyd and Maria Farantouri are both independent, iconic figures in their respective worlds of music: American jazz and the classical music of Greece. When Lloyd and Farantouri met in the fall of 2002, they recognized the one in the other, a fellow soul pursuing a life using music as a means to inspire and elevate other fellow souls on the road to freedom.

The Berlin Jazzfestival line-up features, alongside the singer and the saxophonist’s all-star Charles Lloyd New Quartet, greek lyre player Socratis Silopoulos. Their album “Athens Concert” was recorded in 2010 and released this year on ECM.

Charles Lloyd Quartet live at JazzBaltica 2010

Charles Lloyd - Saxophones, Flute
Jason Moran - Piano
Reuben Rogers - Bass
Eric Harland - Drums
recorded live at Konzertscheune Salzau, July 3, 2010

1. Hymn To The Mother (Charles Lloyd)
2. Ramanujan (Charles Lloyd)
3. Dream Weaver (Charles Lloyd)
4. Blow Wind (Charles Lloyd)
5. Booker's Garden (Charles Lloyd)
6. Rabo de Nube (Charles Lloyd)

Similar to the 2007 live CD Rabo de Nube (ECM records) this concert here features tender ballads, including the title track, Cuban songwriter Silvio Rodríguez’s “Rabo de Nube” (“tail of a cloud”), a mountaintop meditation with the tarogato (“Ramanujan”), a tribute to Booker Little, and more. 

Charles Lloyd New Quartet live at Kulturetage Oldenburg 2010/ 2000

Charles Lloyd, tenor sax, flute
Jason Moran, piano
Reuben Rogers, bass
Eric Harland, drums
recorded live at Kulturetage Oldenburg, November 28, 2010

1. Introduction
2. I Fall In Love Too Easily (M.: Jule Styne, T.: Sammy Cahn)
3. Dream Weaver: I. Meditation, II. Dervish Dance (Charles Lloyd)
4. Caroline No (Brian Wilson, Tony Asher)
5. Third Floor Richard (Charles Lloyd)
6. The Water Is Wide (Trad.)
7. Lift Every Voice And Sing (M.: J. Rosamond Johnson, T.: James Welson Johnson)
8. Come Sunday (Duke Ellington)
9. Tagi (Charles Lloyd)

Charles Lloyd has always led exceptional bands, and this is one of the finest. Following on from the live album “Rabo de Nube” which won both the Readers and Critics Polls of Jazz Times, he released his latest studio album "Mirror" featuring the quartet with Jason Moran, Reuben Rogers and Eric Harland. Familiar material is reappraised and transformed in this session recorded in California in December 2009.

Charles Lloyd, tenor sax
John Abercrombie, guitar
Darek "Oles" Oleszkiewicz, bass
Tony Austin, drums

recorded live at PFL, Oldenburg, May 18, 2000

1. Prayer (Charles Lloyd)
2. God Give Me Strength (Elvis Costello, Burt Bacharach)
3. Voice In The Night (Charles Lloyd)

This part of a concert recorded 10 years earlier than the concert above serves as a kind of encore, featuring here another rendition of the Charles Lloyd Quartet with guitar legend John Abercrombie.

Overtone Quartet feat. Dave Holland, Jason Moran, Chris Potter, Eric Harland live at Jazzfest Berlin 2009 -UPDATE No.2!!!

Chris Potter · tenor + alto saxophone

Jason Moran · piano, Fender Rhodes
Dave Holland · bass
Eric Harland · drums

Recorded live at Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Main Stage, November 6, 2009

1. Step To It (Holland)
2. Gummy Moon (Moran)
3. Treachery (Harland)
4. Veil of Tears (Holland)
5. Ask Me Why (Potter) (New!)
6. Blue Blocks (Moran)

For more than four decades, three-time Grammy winner Dave Holland “has defined the best in jazz” (JazzTimes), commanding attention as few bassists ever have. A musician of profound imagination and sophistication, he brings together an extraordinary quartet, collaborating with acknowledged masters of the next generation, each an innovator, respecting a legacy of creative freedom. Grammy-nominated saxophone impresario Chris Potter, 39, is characterized by limitless creativity, a vibrant sense of swing, and a full awareness of past, present, and future. Genre-bending pianist Jason Moran, 34 –influenced by opera, classical and world music, and even rap– performs music that's “serious and directed, and some of the best live jazz around now” (The New York Times). Virtuosic drummer Eric Harland, 33, is one of the most in-demand and praised jazz drummers in the world, with more than 30 albums under his belt.
Dave Holland´s latest record called "Pass It On" was released on Dare2Records.

Jason Moran Bandwagon live at JazzBaltica 2004

Jason Moran - Piano
Tarus Mateen - Bass
Nasheet Waits - Drums

recorded live at JazzBaltica Salzau July 3, 2004

1. You´ve Got To Be Modernistic
2. Intermezzo Op.118, No.2 (Johannes Brahms)
3. Jump Up
4. Kinda Dukish/ Body & Soul
5. Ringing My Phone
6. Out Front
7. Planet Rock
8. Fire Waltz/ Infospace

Jason Moran debuted as a band leader with the 1999 album Soundtrack to Human Motion. Since then, he has garnered much critical acclaim and won a number of awards for his playing and compositional skills, which combine elements of stride piano, avant-garde jazz, classical music (cf. the beautiful Brahms Intermezzo), hip hop, and spoken word, among others. The Down Beat critics poll voted him Rising Star Jazz Artist, Rising Star Pianist, and Rising Star Composer for three years straight (2003-2005). In 2005, Moran was also named Playboy magazine's first "Jazz Artist of the Year". The Bandwagon released in 2003 a live trio album, recorded at New York's Village Vanguard, called "The Bandwagon: Live at the Village Vanguard"