“I’m still very young”

“The Dead were big fans, so we used to get high and hang out” CHARLES LLOYD

FIRST came to your country in ’64,” notes Charles Lloyd, the veteran saxophonist who returns to play the London Jazz Festival in November. “There was a group called The Beatles, and they came to America, and the unions, and it’s his sax and flute you can hear on The Beach Boys’ “Feel Flows”. But far from being some lucky Zelig figure, rock royalty sought Lloyd out. Robbie Robertson remembers watching him “in awe” in 1964, with his long hair, sharp threads and “Southern, modern, fresh” sound.