The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow BLUE NOTE
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THE career of 86-year-old tenor saxophonist, flautist and composer Charles Lloyd is a long and fascinating one. He grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was given his first saxophone at the age of nine and became friends with trumpeter Booker Little. In 1956 he headed to LA to pursue a degree in music, playing with the likes of Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry and Eric Dolphy in jazz clubs by night.. A fertile period followed throughout the rest of the ’60s and into the ‘70s, including a memorable set recorded at the Monterey Jazz Festival. Released in 1966 as , it became one of the most successful jazz records of the era, bridging a gap between jazz, rock and the peacefully stoned heart of the counterculture movement.
