Charles Lloyd
Kamasi Washington, Herbie Hancock, Flea and a lively new generation showed how the festival is stretching jazz’s boundaries without losing its center.
Both Newport festivals rose to the challenge of restoring live music in a year that made it difficult and welcome.
It’s rare to find a band that so naturally assimilates its individual voices to strike a collective palette.
Charles Lloyd and Julian Lage and Zakir Hussain served a loose, flowing 65-minute set with complementary facility that belied the novel circumstances.
It turns out that it was more than just a rumor that saxophonist Charles Lloyd spent some of the ’70s playing with The Beach Boys.

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