One of the most fascinating and diverse jazz musicians of the past 50 years or so, 79 year old tenor saxophonist Lloyd has performed with blues artists (often at the Fillmore in San Francisco), avant-garde musicians (Eric Dolphy among others), the Gerald Wilson big band, and with Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus and a cadre of others. He has release dozens of albums since he formed his own band in 1965 and has put his own stamp on modal music, often reminiscent of Coltrane or Pharoah Sanders. This album furthers that approach. Recorded in New Mexico in July 2016, with the opening song, Dream Weaver recorded in Montreaux the preceding month, he is joined on the set by Jason Moran (piano), Reuben Rogers (bass) and Eric Harland (drums). A dramatic drum roll opens the 17 minute long Dream Weaver with piano as prelude to Lloyd’s trilling first statement of the theme. The musicians are given room to move in the songs parameters and very few recordings in recent memory are so moving. This followed by an equally extended Part Five Ruminations and then by the jaunty Nu Blues, on which Rogers takes an extended solo followed by Harland. They trade licks with Lloyd and the lucky audience responds with applause. The beautiful ballad How Cn I Tell You is followed by Tagore On the Delta on which Lloyd plays flute and Harland keeps time. The seven minute title piece is introduced on bass and progresses to gorgeous tenor framed by the playful and energetic band. The final piece, Shiva Prayer is a hypnotic meditation. Charles Lloyd is a genius, as this album will attest.