Musician flagship 1960s, he stops suddenly on business for nearly ten years to get back into the international scene with Michel Petrucciani, in the early 1980s, and the label ECM a few years later. His music is warm, colorful, expressionistic powerfully lyrical beauty remains sublime. After his experience as a trio with 'Sangam', the saxophonist and flutist Charles Lloyd septuagénaire returns with his first live recording in the quartet. Around him a youth voluble and bold but never arrogant. There are some of the pillars of the world rhythmic lloydien with drummer Eric Harland and bassist Reuben Rogers. And the triangle becomes square with the amazing pianist James Moran who, between purity and lyricism, is not complex, the reply given

to tenor sax and the flute of Charles Lloyd. Often flying beyond ten minutes, the songs are real songs with varied textures and reckless impulses. The quartet takes the time to install his moods, ask its colors. Introductions often vaporeuses; at length during which the musicians give free rein to both their technical skill and their harmonic inventiveness. Chorus dreamers between solid groove 'Booker's Garden' and exubérances very free from 'Prometheus', through the delicacy of upsetting' Migration of Spirit 'and influences "Indianisation of' Ramanujan 's that Lloyd 'was pleased to explore with percussionist Zakir Hussain. In seven titles, the quartet music distills perfectly accomplished and energetic, disturbing phrasing and spiritual resonances. 'Rabo de Nube is a live high quality, which has crystallized the transience of this meeting, between grace and power.