| Jumping the Creek | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Charles Lloyd |
| Cover: | Jumping the Creek.jpg |
| Released: | April 5, 2005 |
| Recorded: | January 2004 |
| Studio: | Cello Studios Los Angeles |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 73:44 |
| Label: | ECM ECM 1911 |
| Producer: | Charles Lloyd, Dorothy Darr, Manfred Eicher |
| Prev Title: | Which Way Is East |
| Prev Year: | 2004 |
| Next Title: | Sangam |
| Next Year: | 2006 |
Jumping the Creek is an album by jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd recorded in January 2004 and released on ECM April the following year. The quartet features rhythm section Geri Allen, Robert Hurst and Eric Harland.[1]
The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars and states "this, like Lloyd's other recordings on ECM is about emotion, feeling, and a sense of peace and serenity. Lloyd uses the rough places in his improvisations, to be sure, but it is only to make the rough places plain, limpid, utterly integrated in a serene whole. On Jumping the Creek he succeeds seamlessly and ups his own artistic ante."[2]
The All About Jazz review by John Kelman states "Jumping the Creek represents a clear highlight in a career filled with memorable milestones."[3]
All compositions by Charles Lloyd except as indicated