Myth Syzer Nirvana

Charles Lloyd - Discovery! & Nirvana (1965-1968) {SuperBird 2010 Issue}
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Jazz / Hard Bop / Post Bop / Saxophone

Digitally remastered two CD set containing a pair of albums from the Jazz great: Discovery and Nirvana. The breadth and vitality of Charles Lloyd's music is apparent throughout the Discovery! album. All the selections are his own compositions except, of course, Henry Mancini's and Johnny Mercer's Academy Award-winning 'Days of Wine and Roses'. Along the way, Charles receives exceptional support from Don Friedman, one of the most original of the young piano talents, and from a rhythm team of Eddie Khan (bass) and Roy Haynes (drums) on one of the sessions which resulted in this album.

As a fan of Nirvana's work for the last 20 years, "Live and Loud" at Seattle's Pier 48 has always been, for me and many others, a show held in very high esteem. MTV had broadcast 40 minutes of this show fairly regularly in the mid to late 90s, and this footage showed a band at the height of their powers - self-destructive, charismatic and angry. With the internet, fans began to discover that Nirvana had actually performed a far longer set than was originally broadcast.

Mann, who has changed his style numerous times throughout his long career, is heard exclusively in a straight-ahead and bop context on this pair of studio dates. Evans, who studied flute through his college years, rarely recorded with a flutist (Jeremy Steig joined him on a later record for Verve), though he was fond of the instrument; the capable Chuck Israels on bass and drummer Paul Motian round out the trio.