Chico Hamilton News

If you ask saxophonist Charles Lloyd about his career in music, he'd start many decades ago, in the Memphis where he grew up and the Mississippi of his grandfather's farm.

Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com We first heard Charles Lloyd in the early 1960s, performing with mainstream jazz musicians ... (more)

It's been that way since he moved to New York in the early 1960s. That's the decade when Lloyd's mystical sax vibe attached to ensembles led by Chico Hamilton, Cannonball Adderley and then to his own cutting-edge groups.

Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond were busy trading in the irregular time signatures that made their album's staples in college student jazz collections the country over.

Eric Person, a longtime former sideman with Chico Hamilton and Dave Holland, achieves the kind of musical transcendence required of a project with such an overtly religious theme.