Hyperion with Higgins

Author: LLOYD,CHARLES

Release Date: 19-12-2008

Details: Amazon.caHyperion with Higgins features more music from the December 1999 sessions which led to Lloyd’s previous ECM release The Water Is Wide, and it’s in large part a tribute to that great drummer Billy Higgins, who died in May, 2001. Besides Lloyd and Higgins, the album features John Abercombie (electric guitar), Brad Mehldau (piano) and Larry Grenadier (double-bass). All eight compositions, including the five-part “Darkness on the Delta”, in which Abercrombie offers solo tribute to country blues master Robert Johnson–are by the saxophonist. They reveal his trademark ability to move convincingly between passages of intense ad libitum reflection and triplet-based swing, and the concluding “The Caravan Moves On” is the clearest example of the Near-Eastern inclinations which often surface in his work. If Lloyd’s spiritually charged tone remains his own throughout