''Waves'' is an album by

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saxophonist Charles Lloyd recorded in 1972 by Lloyd and featuring Gábor Szabó, Roger McGuinn and

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Reception

The

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review by

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awarded the album 2 stars and states "This CD reissue is mostly forgettable, finding Lloyd on tenor and flute mostly playing relaxing and soothing solos... most of the music is quite faceless".Yanow, S.

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accessed January 22, 2010. Seattle’s Jive Time Records' Buckley Mayfield's review: "Waves is a testament to Lloyd’s aptitude for adaptability. He proved that a respected jazz musician could smoothly transition into the precarious freak zone of fusion and hippie rock and create a lasting work—even though too few people realize it.

Track listing

:''All compositions by Charles Lloyd except as indicated'' # "TM" - 4:58 # "Pyramid" (Tom Trujillo) - 7:08 # "Majorca" - 6:10 # "Harvest" - 8:57 # "Waves" - 5:17 # "Rishikisha: Hummingbird" - 1:36 # "Rishikisha: Rishikesh" (Charles Lloyd, Michael Love) - 1:24 # "Rishikisha: Seagull" - 2:14 :*Recorded at Malibu Road

Personnel

* Charles Lloyd -

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while th ...

flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

alto flute The alto flute is an instrument in the Western concert flute family, the second-highest member below the standard C flute after the uncommon flûte d'amour. It is the third most common member of its family after the standard C flute and the ...

* Gábor Szabó (tracks 1, 3 & 4), Tom Trujillo (tracks 2, 5 & 6)

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

* Roger McGuinn -

12 string guitar A twelve-string guitar (or 12-string guitar) is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a thicker, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar. Typically, the strings of the lower four courses are tuned in o ...

(tracks 1 & 5) *Wolfgang Melz -

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(tracks 1-5) *Roberto Miranda - bass (tracks 2 & 5) *Woodrow Theus II -

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

(tracks 1-5) * Mayuto Correa - percussion (tracks 1, 3 & 4) *

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

(tracks 1 & 7) * Al Jardine,

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- vocals (track 1)

Production

*Eric Sherman, Joan Lloyd - assistant producers *Roland Young - art direction, photography *Chuck Beeson - design *

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- artwork, illustration

References

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