CHARLES LLOYD & THE MARVELS: 80TH Birthday Celebration Features Bill Frisell and Lucinda Williams, December 14-15 at Jazz at Lincoln Center -

Charles Lloyd, NEA Jazz Master, saxophone titan, bandleader, and composer, will celebrate his 80th birthday in a special concert event, Charles Lloyd & The Marvels: 80th Birthday Celebration, featuring guitarist Bill Frisell and special guest vocalist Lucinda Williams, on December 14─15 at 8 pm, at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater. Lloyd’s longtime rhythm section of bassist Reuben Rodgers and drummer Eric Harland, plus pedal steel guitar master Greg Leisz, will join Lloyd, Frisell, and Williams for this milestone birthday event.

Charles Lloyd & The Marvels will perform Lloyd’s classics, new selections, and transformative versions of American roots music, gospel, rock and pop hits—and much more. Joining them on these special evenings is vocalist and songwriter Lucinda Williams who recorded an acclaimed version of Bob Dylan’s Masters of War with the band.

After establishing his jazz bona fides in the early 1960s as a key member of Chico Hamilton and Cannonball Adderley’s groups, Lloyd formed his historic quartet with Keith Jarrett, Cecil McBee, and Jack DeJohnette, bringing improvised jazz to brand new audiences and recording one of the first jazz albums to sell a million copies. A veritable rock star, Lloyd then shared bills and recording dates with the Grateful Dead, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, the Doors, and the Beach Boys, and he now leads some of jazz’s most distinctive and celebrated small groups. His current band, The Marvels, is the perfect vehicle for his stylistically varied and spiritually engaging music, Jazzwise called their 2016 debut album “perhaps the finest of Lloyd’s career.”

Charles Lloyd & The Marvels: 80th Birthday Celebration will take place in Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, located on Broadway at 60th Street in New York City. A free pre-concert discussion will take place nightly at 7pm, facilitated by Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Director of Public Programs and Education Resources, Seton Hawkins. For additional information and to purchase tickets, visit jazz.org.