Mirror (Charles Lloyd album)

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Mirror
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Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 14, 2010
RecordedDecember 2009
StudioSanta Barbara Sound Design
Santa Barbara, California
Genre Jazz
Length72:54
Label ECM
ECM 2176
Producer Manfred Eicher
Charles Lloyd chronology
Rabo de Nube
(2008)
Mirror
(2010)
Athens Concert
(2011)

Mirror is an album by jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd recorded in December 2009 and released on ECM in September the following year. [1]

Contents

Reception

The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars and states "Ultimately, Mirror is another Lloyd triumph. It may not shake the rafters with its kinetics, but it does dazzle with the utterly symbiotic interplay between leader and sidemen." [2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Track listing

All compositions by Charles Lloyd except as indicated
  1. "I Fall in Love Too Easily" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 5:00
  2. "Go Down Moses" (Traditional) – 5:59
  3. "Desolation Sound" – 7:03
  4. "La Llorona" (Traditional) – 5:35
  5. "Caroline, No" (Tony Asher, Brian Wilson) – 4:02
  6. "Monk's Mood" (Thelonious Monk) – 5:01
  7. "Mirror" – 6:42
  8. "Ruby, My Dear" (Monk) – 5:25
  9. "The Water is Wide" (Traditional) – 7:19
  10. "Lift Every Voice and Sing" (James Weldon Johnson, John Rosamond Johnson) – 4:29
  11. "Being and Becoming" – 7:02
  12. "Tagi" – 9:17

Personnel

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References

  1. ECM Records catalogue accessed October 24, 2011.
  2. 1 2 Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed October 24, 2011.