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Hyperion with Higgins. (More Jazz Than Not).
(ECM 1784 440 014 0002)
No, Charles Lloyd has not taken to playing with the fake-Brit-accented Higgins from Magnum P.I.--the title of this CD refers instead to the late drummer Billy Higgins, a veteran of something like 600 recordings, and a musician with whom Lloyd felt a strong and special spiritual and musical bond. The music on this CD was recorded in the same sessions that produced Lloyd's previous ECM recording, The Water is Wide. The musicians backing Lloyd include two-thirds of the Brad Mehldau Trio (Mehldau on piano and Larry Grenadier on bass), guitarist John Abercrombie, and Higgins on drums and percussion. In general, the music is a bit more bright and sprightly than that on The Water is Wide, and this time out, all of the compositions are by Lloyd.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Hyperion with Higgins. (More Jazz Than Not).