Sangam to Play Town Hall, 6/11

Charles Lloyd's "Sangam" with Grammy award-winning Indian tabla player Zakir Hussain and first-call drummer Eric Harland takes to the Town Hall stage on June 11, 2016 at 8pm, coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the trio's critically-acclaimed, eponymous recording for ECM.

The music of the NEA Jazz Master is steeped in jazz traditions, but Lloyd has long transcended musical categories starting with his landmark 1966 album Forest Flower, Live at Monterey. Having played to sold-out audiences at Carnegie Hall, this one-night only performance by Sangam, part of the Blue Note Jazz Festival, is the trio's only local performance and their first in New York City since 2009. In a 2006 review of the trio's first New York City performance, New York Times music critic Ben Ratliff describe the group's music as "improvised song over loose composition, in which rhythm is taken to its boundaries of speed and precision" and he praised their eponymous ECM recording that year as "a powerfully coherent record."

Tickets for Sangam: Charles Lloyd, Zakir Hussain and Eric Harland start at $47.50. Go to thetownhall.org/event/sangam for tickets. Part of the Blue Note Jazz Festival. VIP tickets are also available and include an exclusive meet and greet cocktail reception with the artists following the concert. Town Hall, located at 123 West 43rd Street in Manhattan, is a 1,500-seat, national historic landmark venue in the heart of New York City, created by suffragists in 1921 and host to countless cultural and musical milestones.

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