Just Before Sunrise: Dream Weaver & Love In (1999)

About this title: This double-CD package by Joel Dorn of material from the Atlantic Jazz vaults in a crucial one in the career of jazz reed and woodwind great Charles Lloyd. Assembled here are the albums Dream Weaver, recorded in march of 19966, just prior to the Charles Lloyd Quartet's barnstorming, first of Europe and then the U.S., and Love In, recorded a year later while the band was playing the Fillmore before leaving for the U.S.S.R. The band on both dates includes Lloyd on saxophone and flutes, pianist Keith Jarrett, drummer Jack DeJohnette (before both men played with Miles Davis, and at the beginning ... read more

Tracks:

1. Autumn Sequence: Autumn Prelude/Autumn Leaves/Autumn Echo [Lloyd/Prevert/Kosma]
2. Dream Weaver: Meditation/Dervish Dance [Lloyd]
3. Bird Flight [Lloyd]
4. Love Ship [Lloyd]
5. Sombrero Sam [Lloyd]
6. Tribal Dance [Lloyd]
7. Temple Bells [Lloyd]
8. Is It Really the Same? [Jarrett]
9. Here, There and Everywhere [Lennon/McCartney]
10. Love-In [Lloyd]
11. Sunday Morning [Jarrett]
12. Memphis Dues Again/Island Blues [Lloyd]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.