Charles Lloyd: Arrows Into Infinity (2012)

1h 53min | Documentary , Biography , Music

Directors: Dorothy Darr (co-director), Jeffery Morse (co-director)

MKV 4,4 GB AVC AAC bits 5.648 kbps 1280x720 30.000 FPS

Plot: Arrows Into Infinity chronicles the arc of an improvisers still-unfolding life, moving through time with memories, archive footage and music, lots of music. Charles Lloyds story is a special one, and it intersects with important moments in jazz history.

Lloyd grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, and had early contact both to masters of an increasingly sophisticated jazz tradition and the raw voices of the blues. Booker Little was a childhood friend, Phineas Newborn a mentor. In his teens Lloyd hit the road with Howlin Wolf. He befriended Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry and Billy Higgins in a period when blueprints for musical freedom were redrawn, and replaced Eric Dolphy in Chico Hamiltons band, soon building a reputation as an exceptional saxophonist and a composer of strikingly original melodies.

Cast: Ornette Coleman Herbie Hancock Eric Harland Zakir Hussain Charles Lloyd Jason Moran

Subs: English, Spanish and Portuguese