Charles Lloyd
December, 1967
Even before the Charles Lloyd Quartet played the opening bars of its first number, success seemed preordained. Lloyd, a sartorially impeccable 29-year-old tenor saxophonist and flutist, whose gentle and outgoing nature is echoed in his music, had already established a solid record of achievement as composer, arranger and soloist. He put in three explorative years with Chico Hamilton's restrained chamber-jazz combo, then, in 1964--1965, as an essential element of one of altoist Cannonball Adderle...
