Canto (Charles Lloyd album)

Canto
Studio album by Charles Lloyd
Released	June 3, 1997
Recorded	December 1996
Studio	Rainbow Studio Oslo, Norway
Genre	Jazz post-bop
Length	65:15
Label	ECM ECM 1635
Producer	Manfred Eicher
Charles Lloyd chronology
All My Relations (1995) Canto (1997) Voice in the Night (1999)

Canto is an album by jazz saxophonist Charles Lloyd, recorded in December 1996 and released on ECM the following year. The quartet features rhythm section Bobo Stenson, Anders Jormin and Billy Hart.^[1]

Reception

The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek stated that "Canto is the song of a master who employs all of his tools in the creation of a work of art".^[2]

The All About Jazz review by Alex Henderson stated: "Lloyd, like Trane, has always been very spiritual, and there's no way getting around the fact that spirituality is a crucial part of Canto. The rewarding post-bop session has a meditative quality, and Lloyd's modal improvisations draw heavily on Middle Eastern and Asian spiritual music... [a] strong addition to Lloyd's catalogue."^[3]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Tom Hull	B+ ()[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Charles Lloyd

1. "Tales of Rumi" – 16:41
2. "How Can I Tell You" – 6:18
3. "Desolation Sound" – 6:05
4. "Canto" – 13:20
5. "Nachiketa's Lament" – 6:18
6. "M" – 13:13
7. "Durga Durga" – 3:20

Personnel

• Charles Lloyd – tenor saxophone, Tibetan oboe
• Bobo Stenson – piano
• Anders Jormin – double bass
• Billy Hart – drums

References

1. ECM Records catalogue Archived 2009-08-31 at the Wayback Machine accessed January 25, 2010.
2. Jurek, T. AllMusic Review accessed January 25, 2010.
3. Henderson, A. Canto review All about Jazz, October 1, 1997
4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 901. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
5. Hull, Tom (28 February 2018). "Streamnotes". Tom Hull – on the Web. Retrieved 9 July 2020.