Charles Lloyd – Weaving Dreams

Surrounded by jazz musicians as a child he threaded his way from the blazing hothouse of the early 1960s New York jazz scene to his radical hippie jazz days playing to thousands of music fans at The Fillmore in California opening for the likes of Jeff Beck, Paul Butterfield Blues Band and the Grateful Dead, he blazed a trail for Miles Davis and countless others to follow. Yet dark times lay ahead as he coped with his sudden success through drugs and then a long reclusive period of recovery in the coastal mountains of Big Sur, before making a comeback in 1980 and returning to the top of the international scene today. Lloyd is now the subject of an extraordinary documentary, Arrows Into Infinity, produced and directed by his wife Dorothy Darr, that traces his incredible journey from the highs to the lows and back again. With the release of the film and Manhattan Stories, a double album of some newly unearthed 1965 live sessions, Stuart Nicholson spoke to both Lloyd and Darr about this loving and revealing portrait of one of jazz’s most remarkable musicians

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