| Athens Concert | ||||
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| Released | 2011 | |||
| Recorded | June 2010 | |||
| Venue | Herod Atticus Odeon Athens, Greece | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 87:04 | |||
| Label | ECM ECM 2205/06 | |||
| Producer | Dorothy Darr, Manfred Eicher | |||
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Athens Concert is a live album by jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd and his quartet with Greek singer Maria Farantouri, recorded in June 2010 and released on ECM the following year. [1]
The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4+1⁄2 stars and states "The Athens Concert is truly inspirational and quite a watermark in a career full of them for Lloyd." [2]
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [2] |
| The Guardian |  [3] |
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