JAZZTIMES | New Charles Lloyd Documentary Film Premieres
In November 2019, Charles Lloyd played for the first time at the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, Germany. He was supposed to return there for two concerts in December of the following year, but those had to be canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the hall’s curator for improvised music and jazz, Piotr Turkiewicz, had an idea for a project that might in some way take the place of the canceled performances. He commissioned Lloyd’s wife, painter and video artist Dorothy Darr, to create a film portrait of her husband during lockdown, documenting the time spent in isolation at the couple’s home in Santa Barbara, California. The result of her work, Love Longing Loss, is available to stream for free from the Boulez Saal’s website from May 11 to June 11.