Jon Lloyd

JON LLOYD QUARTET is my touring group in 2024/ 2025.

 "His tunes are steeped in the ECM aesthetic, and he and long-time collaborator John Law on piano make it sound like the only music you ever want to hear."

Jon Turney, London Jazz News, 2023

This quartet plays European contemporary jazz. My compositions are interpreted beautifully by pianist John Law, bassist Nick Pini and drummer Alex Goodyear. I play tenor and soprano saxophone.

Our album "Earth Songs" is now available on the fabulous UK jazz label Ubuntu and we are busy planning concert opportunities throughout the UK and Europe…

Click this link to find “Earth Songs” on all major streaming platforms…

https://orcd.co/yeqpeq1

Two singles from the album are also available for streaming. Please click here…

https://orcd.co/r85d44g

https://orcd.co/3ppzny8

Two lovely album reviews are already in! 

London Jazz News write:

https://londonjazznews.com/2024/02/11/jon-lloyd-quartet-earth-songs/


Jazzwise have reviewed Earth Songs in the March 2024 issue:

March 1st. Cedars Hall, Wells. (l - r)  John Law, Jon Lloyd, Nick Pini, Alex Goodyear.

“The interplay between the quartet members is magical, instinctive… creating music of often startling beauty.”

                                                        Peter Vacher, “Earth Songs” album review, Jazzwise magazine, March 2024

 

A saxophone delivery as persuasive as a speaking voice. Lloyd should be seen and heard more often”

— Brian Morton, Penguin Guide to Jazz

Powerful and magical music”

— Downbeat, USA

Ambitious and virtuosic... Jon Lloyd is one of the most striking writers at the sharp end of British jazz and improvisation”

— John Fordham, The Guardian, UK

Thoughts For Nought

Tour underway! 

The Quartet tour is now well underway. 

We played London's 606 club to a good sized audience on Tuesday. It was great and well received. On Thursday we were at Soundcellar in Poole, playing to a sell-out audience! On Friday we played Wells Cedars Hall and played in the beautiful acoustic there. Really warm responses from all three gigs…

Next Friday we are at Birmingham Jazz club 1000 Trades, and we can't wait.