Title: Hagar's Song
Artist: Lloyd / Moran
Label: Ecm Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 602537245505
Genre: Jazz

Hagars Song, the 2013 release from longtime ECM luminary Charles Lloyd, is an interactive duo recording with Jason Moran, the pianist who has been a key member of Lloyds latter-day quartet, contributing to the albums Rabo de Nube (2008), Mirror (2010) and Athens Concert (2012). Hagars Song, a collection of intimacy and homage, features pieces especially dear to Lloyd, ranging from compositions by Billy Strayhorn (Pretty Girl AKA Star-Crossed Lovers), Duke Ellington (Mood Indigo) and George Gershwin (Bess, You Is My Woman Now) to a standard strongly associated with Billie Holiday (You ve Changed), Brian Wilsons most famous Beach Boys ballad (God Only Knows) and a Bob Dylan song definitively interpreted by the Band (I Shall Be Released). The centerpiece of the album is the title suite composed by Lloyd and dedicated to his great-great-grandmother, who was taken from her home in south Mississippi at age 10 and sold to a slave-owner in Tennessee.

Tracks:
1.1 Pretty Girl
1.2 Mood Indigo
1.3 Bess, You Is My Woman Now
1.4 All About Ronnie
1.5 Pictogram
1.6 You've Changed
1.7 Journey Up River
1.8 Dreams of White Bluff
1.9 Alone
1.10 Bolivar Blues
1.11 Hagar's Lullaby
1.12 Rosetta
1.13 I Shall Be Released
1.14 God Only Knows

Lloyd / Moran: Hagar's Song

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