Charles Lloyd (1938) is an American jazz musician. Though he
primarily plays tenor saxophone and flute, he has occasionally recorded on
other reed instruments, including alto saxophone and the Hungarian tárogató.
Charles Lloyd was born and grew up in Memphis, Tennessee and
was exposed to blues, gospel and jazz. He is of African, Cherokee, Mongolian,
and Irish ancestry. He was given his first saxophone at the age of nine and was
riveted by 1940s radio broadcasts by Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Lester
Young, Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington.
Lloyd celebrated his 75th birthday in 2013 with concerts in the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Kennedy Center Concert Hall in Washington, D.C. In 2016, Lloyd was inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.
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