Mirror (Charles Lloyd album) explained

Mirror
Type:	Album
Artist:	Charles Lloyd
Cover:	Mirror (Charles Lloyd album).jpg
Released:	September 14, 2010
Recorded:	December 2009
Studio:	Santa Barbara Sound Design Santa Barbara, California
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	72:54
Label:	ECM ECM 2176
Producer:	Manfred Eicher
Chronology:	Charles Lloyd
Prev Title:	Rabo de Nube
Prev Year:	2008
Next Title:	Athens Concert
Next Year:	2011

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

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]

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

• Charles Lloyd – tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, voice
• Jason Moran – piano
• Reuben Rogers – bass
• Eric Harland – drums, didgeridoo

Notes and References

1. http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/2100/2176.php ECM Records catalogue
2. Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed October 24, 2011.